New Baby has arrived and the yoga continues

Our baby , Bella , was born day before yesterday and has kept us busy and me away from this blog. I think she is a little Budda baby as she sleeps often and then looks around with those knowing eyes. Yoga journal is as follows: I've done some childs pose, cat/cow and a few spotting dogs in the AM to get the spine woken up. Meditated on the morning of my daughters birth but not a lot of vinyasa to speak of but baby has kept me present and in the moment, really wonderful.

More to come

Patrick

Starting out

What is yoga? More importantly what is yoga to me. It has been translated from Sanskrit to mean 'union' or 'yoke'. I like to think of it as an immutable word, something that has always been the same like the sound of the universe, "ooommm", but I know in my world yoga has come to mean different things depending on what I've needed it to mean. When I was a 26 year old wide-eyed beginner to the physical practice of yoga (the vinyasas) it was another way to get an adrenaline high. Five years later it helped me through a tough breakup and I began to study the eight-fold path of yoga and attempted meditation for the first time. Finally, I headed for India and had the chance to study with a yoga master.

Since those earlier years I have made yoga a big part of my life (teaching it, and attempting to live yogicly) but I still struggle with what it means and how it brings meaning into my life, so, here I am blogging about it, hoping that by writing an entry here, from time to time, will help me think about my experience with yoga and will allow me to develop a personal practice which leads to a modicum of balance in my life.

With that said_ I did very little except think about doing yoga today, is that yogic? dohno.