just horsin' around

Or I was most of last week. All of the staying up late, celebrating into the wee hours and hanging our with gal pals has left me feeling a little under the weather. I've been drinking lotsa tea and enjoying the tastiest orange juice ever with little bit of help from my friend. This juicer is quite the machine. I've drank the juice of 11 oranges over the past 24 hours. This juice would be the highlight of a nasty, nasty cold.

And it's a busy week for the studio. Two new corporate yoga classes starting this week, a presentation at the VA Medical Center, figuring out the in's and out's of this yoga software and planning/coordinating for the darling day long retreat in Midway is leaving little time to blog.

So I leave you with some yogic thoughts to explore, courtesy of Swami Satchidananda. Enjoy!

"Without meditation, there's no Yoga. Whatever you do, meditate on that. When you eat, meditate on your eating, don't talk business. When you do one thing, do it with concentration. Think of what you are eating. What are the qualities of the food, where did it come from; thank the trees that gave you the fruits instead of thinking of something else. One thing at a time, that's what you call Yoga. You can sleep like a Yogi, eat like a Yogi, walk like a Yogi, talk like a Yogi. Whatever you do, let the magic wand of Yoga touch it. Then your entire life becomes a Yogic life, not only when you do asana, pranayama. You practice Yoga all the time."