“The Tree of Yoga”
B.K.S. Iyengar

“You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quite and still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
Franz Kafka

Every day is a new life to a wise person.

“Happy Yoga” by Steve Ross

Tremendous read. Enjoy this preview from Google Books.

Order “Happy Yoga” from Amazon.

“If you don’t have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.”
John Foppe

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being let me do it now. Let me not deter or neglect, for I shall not pass this way again.

“Wherever You Go, There You Are.”
Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn

Photo by Schuey

“Fortune favors the bold.”
From the Latin proverb “Fortes fortuna adiuvat”

Hello, I wanted to share this great article by Peter Sterios on the elephantjournal.com.  Enjoy!

Get Up and Go: Getting the call from the White House.

I got the call. Many get the call—the call to move, the call to go, the call to take action and change something in our lives. I’ve gotten the call numerous times, but this was different.

I literally got the call. Having spent the previous five days teaching a yoga retreat, deep in the woods, beyond the reach of cell towers, my coming out was greeted with a brief voicemail:

“Can you make time in your schedule to teach yoga at the White House?”

In disbelief, I hit the replay key and listened again—same message, and no recognition of any tone to suggest a wayward April Fool’s prank from one of my slightly twisted friends who think they’re funny.

This was the real deal. And in a schedule that is chronically overbooked, I frantically searched for my day planner buried in my bag, hoping that date was free.

Amazingly it was—the only weekend free for months. It was meant to be.
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