Namaste!

So who said, "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want?"  Ok, I don't really care who said it, because at the moment its true-ness is downright irritating.

This was to be, with the exception of my Wednesday class, an entire week off.  A staycation.  A week of yoga classes and climbing, hiking and catching up with friends.  Instead, it has been a week of sleepless nights, a pounding headache and fiery sore throat, all the while hacking up a lung (or two).   Not exactly Nirvana.

Ever in search of a silver lining lesson, last night I stopped griping for a hot minute in order to look at what this is all about.  Usually when I fall ill, it's from an extended period of not listening to the inner voice calling "slow down" or endless weeks of burning the candle at both ends.  But this has a slightly different flavor.

In the same way I am prone to overwork, I wanted to fill this week to the brim with fun and friends.  Apparently what I needed was to take that staycation and Sit.  Read.  Rest.  Listen.  And close this eventful year with a reflective pause.  As we learn on this path, if we don't find balance on our own, Nature will do it for us.  And here I am.

I have been so intent (read: intense) on creating balance in my life by mixing fun into this life of work that I love, that I forgot the most important balancing factor of all:  Space.  Nothing.  Stillness.     

Got it. 

Peace to you and yours as we start a New Year.  Peace to our world.

Blessings,

Jill