search for the love that moves the ground you walk upon 

- @yoga_girl

iYoga

Lately, I've been thinking and feeling and wondering about a lot of things.  I've finished up nursing school, I'm taking boards in a little over a week, and I'm trying to stay balanced.  The past two months I've been doing yoga more often than ever and I honestly feel a difference in my anxiety level, fitness level and happiness level.  I feel that yoga has a way of bringing a certain vibration into life that no other exercise can.  For several years i've been in love with jogging and thought it was my calming thing, that I needed to do to stay sane and keep fit.  Well, lately I've felt this love for yoga and I want to share it on my blog.  Yoga is a way of connecting to our inner-selves.  It allows us to train our bodies using mostly our mind, and then also our muscles to accomplish what our mind sets out.  Noticing the position of my limbs, the strain in certain muscles or ligaments, the rotation and position of joints - I've started doing all of that noticing and it has made me more attentive to myself.  I want to forever be someone who feels the twinge of tightness in my back, or the furrow in my brow and consciously tries to correct and soften that tension.  Relaxation, happiness and joy can come from within once we tap in to finding them inside of our souls, and I also believe through God and worship.  I love yoga and how it helps me see the world and myself a bit differently… 

"The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life" -B.K.S. Iyengar 

magic

call it magic

call it truth

call it magic, 

when i'm with you. 

and i just got broken,

broken into two. 

still i call it magic

when i'm next to you. 

and i don't 

want anybody else but you. 

-"magic" by coldplay 

wonderful thought by Jelaluddin Rumi - think of yourself as a guest house for all experiences and thoughts!

THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -- Jelaluddin Rumi,     translation by Coleman Barks

i need a toolbox

today I learned that a good hair style can be made great with a high-quality hair spray.
a few days ago I learned that pictures can go from good to wow when you use an 
expensive lens, or a garden hose to create faux-rain.  
life and learning can be turned around and completely solved,
when you use the correct tools. 
my goal in this life, is to find the perfect tools for me. 
the people, quotes, advice, therapies, herbs, and exercises that make my life
flow and work in top shape. 

thinking about being

i'm so glad that i am a being. 
my life is so precious, so unique and so mine. 

one flip of a switch or one less bat of an eyelash
and i may have never existed. 
isn't that how it is for us all? 

we've won the lottery of LIFE! pure, uninhibited, breathing life.  

i want everyone to have that surprising, happy feeling - 
of knowing they're the only one who can do 
what they're going to do. 

i think the secret to life and happiness is to stop dwelling
and DO! 

do what you love, share love and be a light to the world!