Eat, Pray, Love

It is a new year! And the new year started off GREAT!! I was in Cheyenne, with my sister and her family - J & J, my two favorites. We brought in the new year with my sister's best "girl" friend and her family, playing "Just Dance" on the Wii (I did win - we set up a bracket). While in Cheyenne, I had a pedicure with Kim and Kori, and had my nails painted Blue for the Denver Broncos.

Prior to New Years, I spent a week in Texas with my mom. I saw my brother and his family for Christmas. I really enjoyed my time in Texas.

One of the things I did, while in Texas, was take a Bikram Yoga Class.

Bikram Yoga is a "hot" yoga, in which the class is 90 minutes long, in a room (with carpet) of 95-105' at 50% humidity. Bikram is a series of 26 poses - and thus, every time you go, you do the same poses in the same sequence. You also get more flexible and are able to do the pose, better each time. Or as your body allows. (Yes, all this does tie into my dating)

I certainly was nervous about going; though a student/teacher told me my goal was mainly to just stay in the room, even if I was in child's pose or corpse pose the whole time.

I was amazed, in the end:
~ I did all of the poses.
~ I did spend a couple extra moments in corpse pose.
~ I stayed in the room.
~ And I was in awe of how our body, different movements, moving away from a hot mat, can cool the body.
~ If I never had experienced how I CAN control my breath, I certainly learned to focus on it in this class.

It was inspiring to feel that yoga, truly, answers all of my needs:
~ exercise that works my heart rate (different poses brings the heart rate up),
~ works flexibility, as well as strength.
~ Works my core, works my mind, yet I don't have the time, the ability to think bad thoughts. ~ ~ ~ ~ Bad thoughts will disable any balance, and balance is different each day.
~ is peaceful.
~ has music
~ is challenging
~ helps my sinus'
~ helps my thyroid, my intestines, my insides...

And it was at the end of this class, as I laid on my mat in Corpse Pose that I realized, I was in my own "Eat, Pray, Love" life.

Eat was when I was married - I did eat more than I do now, I certainly COOKED more, and tried different foods (within my cooking) when I was married.

Pray is right now. Right now I am finding my balance.

Love is in the future......whether that is today, tomorrow, 3 months, I don't know. I am on the journey.....

Eat, Pray, Love....