About

I am just a woman with a belly

I struggled with my weight, both sides of the scale, all my life. At one point in my life I felt much better when I exercised so I did that. I grew organic vegetables in my garden and felt even better. I took the essence of that experience with me throughout my life. Yoga taught me sensitivity to my body’s needs, but it has been a long journey to find out what I actually needed.

Life has been an adventure. Frankly, I am not perfect: I’m old but I am stronger inside because of yoga.

I may be old and stiff when I wake up but after all the yoga and meditation I do in the morning, I still feel I can grow and expand moremore.

Sometimes I feel happy, sometimes foxy, sometimes old, sometimes I am sad and sometimes very flat.

Still the yoga I have been doing all my life sustains me and opens my heart. I see more clearly, and I can determine what is obvious from what is there and not there.

Through yoga I have learned to love and see better.

If I feel overwhelmed, burdened, or burnt out, I make decisions after my yoga practice. Meditation helps.

Yoga and meditation has taught me how to get back to my very core to be here for whatever my reality is, and act in way that is going to get me through the next moment, and the next one, and the next one.

I am learning how to remember my past better, because I was not always a “good” person: I made many mistakes in my life, but I make mistakes better now because I care.

Instead of living from my hurts and anger memories, I keep asking myself, what can I do now to make things better?

My mind is not as good or smart as it used to be, but I am learning how to live better.

It is very important to be here now for the life I am living. I often say this to myself when I notice the feeling of being centered and grounded. My mind says, “You are exactly where you need to be and it helps you to be inside your body, feeling all your places that need healing in order to be grounded and centered.

The better you are at being grounded, the better you will be at being there for the people you love.

Eating is a problem for many people. From my journey through being a chubby child, and I have learned how to manage my emotions around my eating choices.

Much about what, why, and how I eat is based on science and observation of my own body.

I also have loved yoga all my life. I been doing it since I was was seventeen, but I would not say I know anything about all the kinds of yoga out there, because I only studied one kind.

However yoga is very important to me to handle my problems from a better mental space.

I think about yoga all day long. I try to always be here in my body, watching my breath, and stretching in many ways to expand my mind/body’s capabilities. I can wash dishes and do yoga, sweep and do yoga, do laundry and still be doing yoga because I can feel inside my body.

This has been my personal journey, and I do not offer advice.I just want to share my experience of being a yogini from a very early age.

The best thing I ever did in my life was learn how to do yoga. It gave me the ability to move, dance, swim, breathe, go to scary new places and still be here in my body for my challenges.

I appreciate this incredible human body I’ve been given.

It is awesome.

This body is one I want to cherish and nourish as long as I am alive.