Month: October 2024

I attended the first event of my high school reunion with my two first friends in junior high school. They are twins who spent time with me in my family home years ago. As they entered, we remembered slumber parties, Halloween costumes and special times with our moms. 

Together we sat through the program kicking off the Homecoming Reunion weekend. The organizer checked in with me about details for my yoga offering for our class.  I rested with a smile on my face and awakened to a clearing rainstorm, washing away the past and revealing a beautiful and subdued present.

What do you learn about yourself when you reunite with parts of your past? How does that affect and inform your present? Ki to Happiness reunites with the best parts of the past and releases the rest with blessings for all the lessons.

Traveling yesterday, after changing seat assignments, I made friends with my seat mates. They’ve been friends since junior high, and they relished my journey to reunite with my graduating class, including friends from junior high. We chatted about locations they may enjoy in my hometown and shared the shuttle to the rental car agency.

Making new friends who are old friends made me appreciate my upcoming reunion with my old friends. Whatever occurs during this reunion, it’s been a long time coming. I already appreciate the growth and the greater gratitude for all of my friends, companioning me through this journey of life.

Do your old friends know how much you value them? Are you open to making new ones as your life journey continues? Ki to Happiness practices the yoga of friendship, seeking the union of our Higher Selves to the One who arranges seat mates.

Students arrived late and distressed. I had some stress in my morning as I attempted to check in for my flight. In the aftermath of the recent computer hack at our airport, systems were still not interfacing.

De-stressing with yoga, a walk in nature after getting checked in worked for me. As I led class, I emphasized exhaling to release the tension. Distress comes when we identify with the stress instead of with our limitless Higher Self as I learned and taught from the Yoga Sutras.

How do you release stress? Can you de-stress without distress? Ki to Happiness identifies with the limitless Higher Self.

I taught my 10 AM class as one student said goodbye before moving out East and a brand new student said hello. Hatha Yoga Center has had thousands come and go since 1977. It’s like a river, always changing with the flowing of attendees joining and departing, and also always the same, with the banks of consistent scheduled classes.

They say you never step into the same river twice. Similarly, no two classes are identical. And yet with the ebbs and flows of community membership, the predictably of safe and sane practices define the nearly 50 years of HYC.

How good are you at goodbyes? How about hellos? Ki to Happiness witnesses the constant changes from the consistence of Hatha Yoga practice.