Namaste

Yes, yes....I know I have been awful about updating this thing....and now i'm going to disappoint even further by not updating about Disney, or Toronto, but yes...you guessed it....(or maybe you didn't..)....my yoga class that I took this morning. We found this cute little studio that practices "Moksha Yoga". I've never heard of it before, but it's basically a mix of bikram and vinyasa. Not as flow based, but still done in a heated room. Anyway, our instructor, Mike, was the most attentive instructor I've ever had - Explaining each position so throughly and correcting everyone....I've been practicing for almost 3 years now and realized I've been doing basics completely wrong. We practiced "meditation laughter" which was just lovely. he made the point that when you are immersed in giggles, it's impossible to let extraneous thoughts in...your mind is completely blank while positive endorphins overtake your body. Pure awesomeness. To end the class, while we were in Savasana, he told us this little anecdote (which I will try, to the best of my ability, to re-tell)...


A Philosophy professor began class one day by writing "A Mayonnaise Jar and two cans of beer" on the board.
he pulled out a large, empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it to the top with golf balls.
"Is it the jar full?" he questioned the class? They all agreed that it was.
he then pulled out a bag of pebbles and emptied it into the jar with the balls, and gently shook it so that the pebbles filled in the cracks left by the golf balls.
"Do you all agree, that the jar is now full?"
They class nodded in agreement.
The professor then pulled out a bag of sand and proceeded to empty ThAT into the mayonnaise jar.
"Now. Is it full now?"
They class all agreed that now, it was definitely as full as it could be. At which point he presented two cans of beer, popped the tabs and poured the two cans of beer into the already stuffed mayonnaise jar.


"Now, the jar is finally full. The mayonnaise jar represents our life....the golf balls represent the important things in our life -our family, our partners, our friends, our health, our irreplaceable experiences and adventures....the things that, if everything else was lost, and only they remained, our life would still be full.
The pebbles are the less important "things" in our lives....our house, our car, our job.
The sand is everything else. The "small stuff". If you put the sand into the jar first, there isn't any room left for the golf balls and the pebbles. The same goes for our lives. If we put all of our energy into the small stuff, we won't have enough room, time, or energy for the most important parts of our lives.
Pay attention to your golf balls.
Visit your parents, get medical checkups, take your significant other out for dinner, enjoy your kids laughter during his soccer games
Set your priorities. The rest? It's just sand."


A student raised her hand and asked "what about the beer"


"Glad you asked. The beer just shows, that no matter how packed your life may seem, there is always room for a couple of beers with a couple of your golf balls."




Of course Mike ended the story, and I was laying on my mat, a sweaty mess, sobbing into the dark heat of the room (: But it's nice, right? Put me in a great place to start my day.




and then? I made the most delicious smoothie in all the lands....


1/2 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 c. frozen strawberries
1 banana
spoonful of plain fat free yogurt
1/2 almond milk
1 ice cube.
Blend.
Pure deliciousness.




I promise the next update will be about my princess fittings (: My Cinderella costume is a fairytale.