Tag Archives: gratitude
December 28 – Agradecimiento (Gratitude)
What eleven things were you most grateful for in 2011? a 1. great friendships 2. my wonderful family 3. a good job in a career that I love (teaching!) 4. the opportunity to teach lots of yoga schmoga 5. the freedom and ability to travel widely 6. Yoga as Muse 7. my continuing studies powerful Dharma [...]
December 11 – Gracias (Thanks)
Appreciation and acknowledgement are corner stones to building trust and deepening relationships. Write a thank you note or poem to someone who impacted your life in 2011. x Special thanks to my fellow YAM tribe member, Heidi Johnson, for offering today’s prompt. Here’s my poem in response: x Dearest one Thank you for accepting me [...]
Gratitude begins with the in-breath.
It’s November! The month of gratitude, the month of Thanksgiving. As the bustling holiday season approaches, it’s an ideal time to remember to breathe deeply. To sit still occasionally and embody the present moment, releasing what’s happened in the distant or recent past, letting go of what could happen in the immediate or distant future. [...]
breathe in gratitude. repeat.
at this moment / i breathe / and life is good en este momento / inspiro / que buena la vida
Thanksgiving in June
Thank you, sun, for rising in the east, warming my skin. Thank you, lungs, for filling with air, even when I am sleeping soundlessly. Thank you, eyes, for seeing and blinking and winking. Thank you, toes, for balancing, for spreading, rooting me into this place. Thank you, spine, for aligning, for giving me height, for [...]
31 Things I’m Grateful For.
1. Love (metta) 2. Family 3. Friendship (amistad) 4. Yoga 5. My teaching career 6. Mis alumnos (my students, 9th graders and otherwise) 7. My teachers (yoga and otherwise) 8. Dharma 9. Shelter 10. Deep breaths 11. My writing career (and reading and writing on Elephant Journal) 12. The opportunity to serve 13. Freedom “According [...]
