I have a new love.

No, not a passion like yesterday.  I’ve moved on–keep up!

No…this is a new love.  It’s yoga.

This is huge for me.  I am so not the yoga type.  Nothing I do in life is slow, methodical and calculated like yoga.  I do not like slow songs, I can not go to the movies and just sit and watch a movie, I have a hard time sitting still for long periods of time so I find that I barely sit throughout the day.  But I am completely smitten with yoga. 

Am I getting old?  Or am I just growing up?

I have not been practicing long and I am a knotted ball right now, but still: I am a woman on a mission and that mission is flexibility, peace, calm…  I want to bring something worthwhile to my “mat”.  I find that I am too new to truly *relax* into my sacred time right now but I am getting better and better at it.  Every so often I actually catch myself getting into my breathing or experiencing a new amount of flexibility I didn’t have before.  It’s exciting–and I need exciting right now.

It is so easy for us to burn out on a love or passion.  I love lifting and I have a passion for it, but I also need to back off of it every so often to just *breathe*.  Step away so that when I return I still love it for what it is:  mine, raw, fun, challenging.  If I hit it day in and day out and do my own programming, I am so over myself that I literally talk to myself in the gym saying things like “do you train all your clients this way and are you always this boring?”haha  So yoga has provided a much needed refuge for me to be able to go within and challenge myself (umm…try any advanced pose and you’ll see what I mean) without having to depend on the usual standby’s of increased weight or zany training techniques. 

What are you going to try this week that will open up a new horizon for you?  I am challenging you to find something and then let me know what you chose.  We have a job to do and that’s to transform ourselves!  So hop to it!