Patience

A day off.

Time to breath

Space to relax.

Life has been quite turbulent, end of August I went home for 3 amazing weeks.

September I journeyed back East for my second and final year of school.

School, has been a roller-coaster, one that comes with a warning - twists and turns, sometimes you may feel in danger...

Disappointments? yes - quite a few.

I may need to figure out -Patience-. I don't think its a virtue, I think its learned, studied and practiced. Patience is living with the understanding of constant change, and allowing things to take the time they need, realizing that the universe has its own schedule.

quote from my little green book "never force change, instead allow, facilitate and create it."

p.s - read the music lesson by victor wooten !!

p.p.s - listen to Rox Sexsmiths' song Poor helpless Dreams

Sat nam

Today was Day 40 of my 40 day Meditation.

40 Days to Transform

It was also the Last day of the Peggy Baker Workshop

and

My Mommy's birthday - at this very moment I am waiting in the Toronto Airport for I am flying home at 5 30!! (an hour woot)

Now if you have not met my mom, you need to, She is Amazing. I like to say that she is the miniature version of me.

But I should really say that she is my

Inspiration.

I feel that all of the amazing-ness that has happened in my life is thanks to my mommy.

She has always been there, and I know will never Stop.

She Understnasd, even when I don't make cense. ;)

She has a beautiful soul.

She Loves unconditionally

She has never given up on me

Peace and Love for all Mankind - is the Only thing she ever wants for Christmas

I am so happy that in a few hours I get to be with my mom. Thanks to her I get to spend the remainder of this wonderful summer at home.

Mommy I love you with all of my heart :D!

MainTenant

For the past two days I have been attending Peggy Baker's Summer Intensive Workshop, thing-er.

And so far it was been, oh what do I like to call it not life changing, but Transforming.

The days go something like this:

Yoga first thing, with this amazing teacher, he is brilliant melding many different practices mostly concentrating on connecting to the inner line of the body, or the core. (interesting fact he mentioned today - the word for core of an apple in french is la/le? coeur de la pomme - the heart of the apple)

After yoga I am off to Technique class with Peggy. where she delves into Movement, with an enfaces more on the relationship and orientation of space inside and outside.

After Lunch we have our Creative class, where we get to apply questions to dance pieces we have created or are working on. Kinda like being in the lab experimenting.

At the end of the day I can go to Irene Dowd (sp?) neuro-muscular sequencing or another Yoga class. So far I have done one of each, depends on what my body needs.

Quote of the day from Peggy: "The worst thing you can do to music, is count it"

I m still in experiencing this workshop, for i m only in day 2 of 6, but do not worry I am almost half way through a journal so all in due time.

Now back to greece.

exert from green journal, from day two of training:

" this word CHANGE

to adapt

to alture

to develope

to grow

to transform

to transition

to evolve

the ascend

You are constantly transforming, Always in motion, moving

the flow of breath guides the body

Experience How do You experience the world? what makes you happy?

How are you different everyday?"

Interesting Day two of the yoga experience, brought up many of the same concepts as did today, day two of dance workshop...

oh I titled this blog MainTenant for I was planning on discussing this new theory....

I feel this blog is long enough and i m sleepy so i will go into that another time. Don't worry I won't forget! - for hey its written down

Sat nam

A week later

I have been back on home soil for a week now, only a week, it feels like a lot longer. I must really drop this concept we call time, I keep trying to understand it, but I have a feeling it is a lost cause...

anyways I digress for this is a topic for another time, I m certain in the future I will dedicate a many blog to father time.

It has truly been wonderful since I have been back in (Oh!) Canada...

My very beautiful and inspiring friend Jae, {or should i give her a gnome de plume... (Jae i hope your fine with me using your real name - or audience am I just pretending I didn't change her name...you will Never know!)} from my University days came for a visit! She was my very first visitor to come stay and stay with me at Primo Dela Fonté ( the name of the apartment Daphné and i share)

The three nights that Jae stayed were amazing (i wish she were here longer - Jae you are welcome back ANYtime). I finally had the opportunity to explore this great city I live in. She even let me lead her in a couple yoga classes. I learned so much practicing with her.

On the afternoon of Jae's departure I traveled by greyhound to a cottage on Kosh Lake ( in Ontario's cottage country). One of my best friends from High-school (Danica Kell - doesn't she has the name of a singer/songwriter?)'s aunt and uncle own a beautiful cottage on this gorgeous lake. I spent the weekend relaxing on the dock, participating water sports and singing & dancing. I completely understand why this is Danica's favourite place on earth.

I had the opportunity to lead yoga for her family and friends. It was great for some of the yogis were first timers. We practiced on the deck of the cottage overlooking the lake. :)

Today I returned to Toronto and Tomorrow I start a week long contemporary dance workshop with Peggy Baker ( a canadian contemporary dance icon!), talk about being in Constant Motion.

This is defiantly shaping up to be the most wonderful summer of all time. (Go 2011!)

Here is an exert from my very bright green non lined coil journal [#1] from Greece.

July 2nd (the day before flying to Kytheria)

"I give myself permission to be 100% myself from the very start. I will grow and be inspired every moment. I must be open to both absorb and expand. I can't Wait. This is a life changing Adventure."

note: since returning from Greece, when someone asks me how it went, my response has been, " it was life changing" I guess I was right :D

Namaste - Sat nam

And so the blogging Begins...

Well I find that the start is always the hardest part, I' just jump in...

A week ago today I was getting on a plane at the tiny airport in Kythria headed back to Athens.

What was I doing in Greece?

I went for a 20 day Yoga Teacher Training Program.

But what I got was so much more.

July in Greece = Transformational.

I left Toronto on June 30th, I was traveling alone it was my very first time in Europe. I didn't know a soul when I got there. Only a couple days prior to my arrival in Athens there had been riots in the streets, I was staying in a hotel only a few blocks away from the parliament building in downtown athens. Despite all of this I was excited, so excited about the adventure I was on.

My day in Athens was great, I headed out early with a map, but no plan.

The next day I left for the island. flying in a little 50 seater plane, an empty seat beside me.

I arrived at the tiny airport, that sees one plane in and one plane out per day. I meet the amazing group I will be spending my next 20 days with, and we are off, to Avlemonas - the small fishing village - home for the next month.

The yoga retreat was pretty much heaven for me. Wake up early start my day with meditation, then have a hatha yoga class, followed by a frappe (amazing greek cold coffee i'd have my medium sweet with milk ;) while drinking this delicious drink we would learn about postures and teaching and anatomy. Our schooling would end around 12:30 then we would have the day to ourselves.

I spent this time exploring, swimming (or water therapy as the greeks call it), backing in the sun (for my sun therapy), eating greek salade, getting to know the amazing people I was with, Dancing, practicing yoga, reading, napping, living :) We would re-convien around 6 to debrief, do a little more study and then (my favourite part of the day) have a Kundalini yoga class.

Yes I fell in love in Greece, with Kundalini Yoga. :D

I mean come on, I get to

1. do yoga

2. dance

3. sing

4. let loose

5. meditate

All in the span of an hour and a half! - and its what I'm supposed to be doing - someone is leading me!

3 days in, I broke down during the Savasana of our Kundalini class. There was an enormous shift inside of me. something transformed. and I knew in lying there on and island in the middle of the Mediterranean that my life would never be the same.

Throughout this trip I wrote in a few journals.

I want to share what I experienced - on this trip and in life.

So i m going to!

excerpt from July 4th - " It is great to allow yourself to be vulnerable, to let yourself to open up and be you, your true authentic self. Explore, Surrender, Laugh, Love, Live, Create, Let go and be You- Not your thoughts."

Mission: This will be a place to hold my thoughts on dance & yoga + Life.

I welcome you into my words