2010 Start your engines....

Today is the final day to lounge around and say it is still a holiday weekend. Starting tomorrow we will be zooming off into a new decade, a new year and a whole new week. The days are slowly getting longer and before we know it spring will be rolling around the corner. So these next 90 days are ready to shoot out of the starting gate, what do you have planned?

I am reading a great book, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur that has helped me understand that not having a standard business plan and locked in goals isn't the end of the world or even bad, especially for someone like me who really likes to be able to move within whatever happens in any given day. So I have been thinking about what I would like to accomplish in the next 90 days both personally and professionally. I have some definite ideas and others not so but I know what I do have is the openness to approach each day as it comes and not lock myself into any one space just to meet a so called "goal" on a sheet of paper. You never know who you are going to meet or what idea might spark after a conversation or waking up in the morning.

My yoga classes are formed in the same vein. I don't walk through the door with a set class in my mind that I stick to. I always love to wait and see who shows up for class, what the general energy is and just how I personally feel at the time. I have my standard opening I always do to help my students release where they came from and where they will go to later and to drop into their breath and let go into the rhythm of their breath and drawing their attention further inward with each breath. Then the slow opening of the body with the breath and moving from there.

I have students who are slowly expanding their confidence as they open their body more with consistent, steady practice. In the last few weeks I have seen people get up into head stand that a few months ago looked at me like I was crazy asking them to move upside down. I have seen others feel more comfortable about moving away from the support of the wall in standing balance poses and stand taller for longer than they ever thought they could. As we move into the new year I plan to work deeper into strength and stamina and finding the lightness and open spaces too. The overriding theme will be to find that balanced space where no area of the body is overworking or under working. Staying in touch with all of the spaces the flow together in the pose with ease and awareness.

Using that same approach to my business this 90 days as well. Balance between too much and too little and finding the space of ease and open space that allows for movement in any direction... So what will you be working on for the next 90 days in all the areas of your life? Can you set the intention of staying present in each moment and easing into the space that allows for balance in all areas and allowing yourself to have room to move when the spirit moves or a good idea presents itself. How aware are you of what is moving and into your life every single day? If you presently practice yoga, can you find the way to bring the lessons from the mat with you as you move out into the world? If you don't currently practice yoga I would ask this, what is keeping you from exploring all that yoga has to offer???

Namaste.