Author: Ki McGraw

Hatha Yoga Center appreciates the many new students who have been joining us lately. Whether LIVE in person, or joining our group page, their new energy enlivens our efforts.

Hatha Yoga Center also appreciates the multitude of long standing community members. It’s a pleasure to observe the old students help the new with friendliness and welcome.

Are you experiencing new people in your world? How are your old peeps welcoming them? Ki to Happiness witnesses the current of ever changing HYC community members with delight.

Driving back home after a private session I read this gas station sign: “humans are 70% water. We are basically cucumbers with anxiety”. I was listening to the radio at the time when Pharrell’s Happy song came on.

I started singing and dancing in my driver’s seat. Tears of joy streamed from this cucumber’s eyes as I let go of any anxiety. Happy tears. That 3 minute wiggle/giggle stayed with me all day!

How can your cucumber self release it’s anxiety? What makes you wiggle and giggle?Ki to Happiness loves the song’s invitation to “tap along if you feel happiness is the truth” !

As the global situation continues now, many of us are fatigued from 19 months of constant demands on our adaptability. Patience has long run out and stored resources dwindle. The unholy reactivity erupts.

The yoga sutras of Patanjali offer guidance to “holy disregard the unholy”. Especially at this time of this new moon, I highlight this sutra so we set intentions free from reactivity in favor of response ability.

What would you like to create? Can you release your reactivity so that you can stay focused on your truest desires? The Ki to Happiness is Response Ability.

As I prepared for teaching my 10 AM class yesterday, I discovered Facebook down. Like many, first I took it personally. I figured it was my phone. Then I found out that no one had any kind of device that could access Facebook, Instagram, messenger, or WhatsApp.

I proceeded to teach a small, intimate class without live streaming for the first time in nineteen months. Unlike my decades of having done so in the past, I had a constant awareness of those who wanted to practice with us that were unable to do so. In the process, I am aware that I have become more connected to more people.

Did you take it personally? What did you learn about yourself in the process? Ki to Happiness delights in Facebook coming back up.

When we use our bodies physically for the purpose of increasing strength, we often apply resistance. That resistance may come in the form of an object, gravitational position, another person or a particular muscular engagement.

As we experience resistance emotionally and mentally, we also may strengthen our commitment and perseverance. Similarly resistance to spiritual practices may strengthen our connection to Spirit as long as we continue with practicing anyway.

What would you like to strengthen? What resistance may help with that? Ki to Happiness feels the resistance and continues to strengthen in body, mind, emotions and spirit.

Hundreds of people swarmed our university district yesterday. They came on the light rail to check out the grand opening celebration. Now we are connected us all the way from the airport up to Northgate.

Another tenant in our building says the construction projects his company is building are all going to be nearly 30 stories tall. He projects that in the next two years with these housing possibilities and the ease of transportation, our entire area will be transformed.

Can you feel these large forces at work transforming our world? What is your best method of participation? Ki to Happiness looks forward.

I added a couple of new challenges yesterday to my morning practice. I had a hard time with uploading. One of our members had his identity stolen. And another became obsessively fixated on one of us to the extent that he became suicidal.

This is not how its supposed to go. I stayed centered with yoga practices as I faced these challenges with the Challenges. This new experience of the old adage “Let no good deed go unpunished” won’t deter me.

How are you doing with your challenges? What helps you stay centered? Ki to Happiness stays centered with Hatha Yoga.

Welcome October! The wet cool dark is upon us. I’ve fallen in love most often in this month. The desire for creature comforts, snuggles, and hot cider are conducive to romance. I still smell the hay rack rides of my youthful dates.

I no longer relate to many of those who I dated. I learned recently one of my great loves has passed away due to Colon cancer. I’m taking my love for him out on the Crunches for Colon Cancer challenge.

What do you do with your old love? Where can you safely express it still? Ki to Happiness loves through loss.

Yesterday’s celebration of the archangels balanced well with a need to tend to our animals. Mysterious cat behaviors are being resolved. The Holiest of Holies witness and applaud.

We humans are both mysterious animals and infused with the Light like the Angels. Reconciling these two poles of our being we find peace and acceptance.

Do you identify more with your animal nature or your angelic inheritance? Which requires more attention for you to come into balance? Ki to Happiness honors both with Hatha Yoga.

Today we venerate Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. These three entities are available to assist us all. Each of us can petition for help with mental and physical health as well as clear messages from our Guardian Angels.

Especially at this time with multiple challenges, we could all use some help. I humble myself daily as I ask for guidance and strength to follow it. Doing so first thing sets my day in the right direction.

What do you need help with? Can you humble yourself enough to ask? Ki to Happiness thanks the Archangels for all their interventions.