...has been interesting. One blow-up, near relationship ending fight with the DB, followed by the best make-up period ever, which is quite unerving for some reason. It's like I'm imagining it all and I'll get home from work and it'll all have blown up again. I know it's me overreacting but I can't imagine my life without him in it.
On the plus side we have talked really openly about a lot of things and are in a much better place together I think. I was/am finding it hard in Brisbane sometimes, but thought it sounded really ungrateful or something to complain about it. But it's all good now, and truly I have such an amazingly lovely social circle here. Yeay for friends!!
I'm knitting loads, like all the time, in an effort to keep up with the pieces I have been commissioned to do and the things I want to get done for myself or as gifts. Ooo, I'm meeting up with a local musician this evening at the Conservatorium to practice some pieces for the local devotional evening in Kuraby. It's nice to finally see some things coming together for yourself in little itty-bitty ways.
Friday 19 June 2009
Monday 8 June 2009
Confessions of a Pretzel Wannabe
I like yoga. Actually I love yoga but sometimes I don't remember I love it until *after* the session...I've been doing it on and off since I was 16, and while at college more 'on' which was great. Free yoga club and I got to take a course on Yoga for Musician that actually counted towards was credits for graduation...I loved it.
And now in Brisbane I find myself doing lots of it again. Yesterday, as my birthday present from the DB, I attended YogaFest in Brisbane and it was BRILLIANT!! An entire day of yoga sessions, talks, stalls, chai lattees and sitting out in the sun chatting to other Yoga heads. I'm a little stiff today after 4 yoga sessions in one day (I may have gone a little overboard but there were just so many new styles to try out) but I haven't felt as content about something I've done in a long time, really whole and happy and like I did something worthwhile and meaningful...yes, I feel like it is something very meaningful, purposeful in my life.
I'm particularly interested in doing my teacher training while in Australia and hopefully becoming an accredited yoga instructor. I love the idea of having a skill that I could take with me on my travels, that would better my yoga practice and allow me to share something that I enjoy so much.
I find it something that really complements my own religious beliefs too. I'm a Baha'i and have been taught to pray and meditate as a way to communicate with God/Great Creator/Universe. I find my meditation practice really deepens when I'm practicing yoga in my life, and that I feel more centred and able to handle what life throws at me.
It is interesting as I have often wondered if my religion and the Yogic path are compatible elements in my life. I *feel* no conflict between them, but technically they are different religions and I wonder if, as an instructor, you are expected to be a follower of that body of teachings alone...hmm, maybe it doesn't matter in any big way, and I feel fine about it in myself, so that's the main thing, but I know for myself I hate to only take on the surface elements of something. We're very good at that in the Western world, taking the yoga for it's physical benefits and discarding the rest of it because it doesn't suit or we couldn't be bothered. I would like to be a little more wholehearted in my approach.
Anyway I think the next thing to make it onto the 'To Do' list will be getting my Yoga instructor qualifications. I need to save up the money first, and the DB has voiced some concerns about my committment to this (if it's just a passing fad sort of thing...and if the qualification would actually be something I would use in the end...valid points I suppose, but not really the initial support I was looking for). For now I am looking into seriously and, like most things in my life, if it's meant to be things will start falling into place.
And now in Brisbane I find myself doing lots of it again. Yesterday, as my birthday present from the DB, I attended YogaFest in Brisbane and it was BRILLIANT!! An entire day of yoga sessions, talks, stalls, chai lattees and sitting out in the sun chatting to other Yoga heads. I'm a little stiff today after 4 yoga sessions in one day (I may have gone a little overboard but there were just so many new styles to try out) but I haven't felt as content about something I've done in a long time, really whole and happy and like I did something worthwhile and meaningful...yes, I feel like it is something very meaningful, purposeful in my life.
I'm particularly interested in doing my teacher training while in Australia and hopefully becoming an accredited yoga instructor. I love the idea of having a skill that I could take with me on my travels, that would better my yoga practice and allow me to share something that I enjoy so much.
I find it something that really complements my own religious beliefs too. I'm a Baha'i and have been taught to pray and meditate as a way to communicate with God/Great Creator/Universe. I find my meditation practice really deepens when I'm practicing yoga in my life, and that I feel more centred and able to handle what life throws at me.
It is interesting as I have often wondered if my religion and the Yogic path are compatible elements in my life. I *feel* no conflict between them, but technically they are different religions and I wonder if, as an instructor, you are expected to be a follower of that body of teachings alone...hmm, maybe it doesn't matter in any big way, and I feel fine about it in myself, so that's the main thing, but I know for myself I hate to only take on the surface elements of something. We're very good at that in the Western world, taking the yoga for it's physical benefits and discarding the rest of it because it doesn't suit or we couldn't be bothered. I would like to be a little more wholehearted in my approach.
Anyway I think the next thing to make it onto the 'To Do' list will be getting my Yoga instructor qualifications. I need to save up the money first, and the DB has voiced some concerns about my committment to this (if it's just a passing fad sort of thing...and if the qualification would actually be something I would use in the end...valid points I suppose, but not really the initial support I was looking for). For now I am looking into seriously and, like most things in my life, if it's meant to be things will start falling into place.
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Yoga Journal - Yoga Philosophy - Get Carried Away
Yoga Journal - Yoga Philosophy - Get Carried Away
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I found this article quite by accident but I've found it really insightful. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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I found this article quite by accident but I've found it really insightful. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Monday 1 June 2009
1st of June!
Today is the first of June. Sorry to point out the obvious but this is my month. My birthday is in 9 days. I have a history of doing great things this month, whether that is passing ridiculous exams in school, or ditching school forever for Glastonbury (the best music festival in the WORLD!) with my boyfriend and a tent that hopefully doesn't leak, or finding myself in a foreign country setting up home. I have celebrated my birthday in Ireland, South Africa, America and now Australia.
I get a bit reflective around my birthday as well, not so unusual, but as I turn the ripe old age of 24 I think about what I have been doing with myself since graduating from Uni and truthfully I am not really satisfied or impressed with what I have done so far. I'm sure anyone reading this will roll their eyes in exasperation, cursing youth and its perpetual dissatisfaction with everything. But I can't help feeling like there is more that I should be doing and achieving right now. I look at other friends who graduated with me from Berklee and the cool jobs they have, the music they are making, and well, I just seem to be drifting along. If it wasn't for DB's job offer in Brisbane, I could still be living back in the back-end of nowhere in Ireland. And even now that I am here, I get home from work, eat, watch TV all evening, knit and then sleep. I go out a bit but I am hardly changing myself or the world. I feel very lost sometimes.
I suppose a birthday is as good a time as ever to reflect on the past year and look forward to a better, more aware and fulfilled year to come. Hmmmm, got to keep my eye on the ball, and on my To Do list perhaps...
I get a bit reflective around my birthday as well, not so unusual, but as I turn the ripe old age of 24 I think about what I have been doing with myself since graduating from Uni and truthfully I am not really satisfied or impressed with what I have done so far. I'm sure anyone reading this will roll their eyes in exasperation, cursing youth and its perpetual dissatisfaction with everything. But I can't help feeling like there is more that I should be doing and achieving right now. I look at other friends who graduated with me from Berklee and the cool jobs they have, the music they are making, and well, I just seem to be drifting along. If it wasn't for DB's job offer in Brisbane, I could still be living back in the back-end of nowhere in Ireland. And even now that I am here, I get home from work, eat, watch TV all evening, knit and then sleep. I go out a bit but I am hardly changing myself or the world. I feel very lost sometimes.
I suppose a birthday is as good a time as ever to reflect on the past year and look forward to a better, more aware and fulfilled year to come. Hmmmm, got to keep my eye on the ball, and on my To Do list perhaps...
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