Sum, sum, summertime....

                And the living is easy?

Ah yes, summer and all its joys - I have been getting out doing lots of hiking, enjoying the outdoors, my dog, the farmer's markets and our beautiful NW days.

               
And I have been incredibly busy. I am having a great time with all my lovely private clients - thank you for your dedication to practice and self-exploration! We just completed the Summer Intensive and I am continuing on with another short series focused on the Chakra of Wishes and Dreams (see below in Do You Know...) have a retreat on the horizon and am actively talking to excited yogis about next year's Advanced Studies: Immersion and Teacher Training.
 

With all that going on, I am also in the last weeks of preparation for a long awaited European vacation! Lani and I are heading off to France and Spain for a couple of weeks for a walk through the countryside bookended by city explorations in Paris and Barcelona.

Yes, summertime - you, like me, may feel busy but don't let that take the easy out of it! Enjoy every breath, every warm (hot!) ray, each breeze and all you do.

Recently, I spent some time at the hospital with my mother while she was recovering from surgery. My mother is in her mid eighties. Her condition was not life threatening, and the surgeon specifically said that it was only because she is in such great shape that he even considered doing the operation.

It didn't surprise me to hear him say that. My mother has been growing younger since she retired from paid work. At around age sixty eight she took up yoga. When she was seventy she talked about how much she loved riding a bicycle as a little girl. So of course, she bought a bike and started riding again. This last winter she complained of taking a couple of falls, but said, overall she had a great ski season. She keeps not only the body, but the brain in shape as well by volunteering as a medical librarian at a local hospital.

When the life span is described to us it is dictated as a straight line that represents aging from the time we are born. A more accurate and realistic description of a lifespan is based on the idea of gain-loss.