The flock of Starlings arrived at the bird feeder again today. The noise was extreme as the birds all trumpeted their good fortune at finding this stash of food. The recent severe winter storm buried all their natural food sources. Their twittering attracted the attention of the neighbourhood cat and she is looking for some […]
Bob an Alice are on the third play off hole of the golf tournament. Alice has a chance to pull ahead and win the match. If she can sink this putt she will be one stroke ahead of Bob. Alice approaches the ball, lines up her putter and begins her stroke when several cell phones […]
Alice is reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her nephews. She reads the part where the Big Bad Wolf huffed and puffed… So he knocked at the door and said: “Little pig! Little pig! Let me in! Let me in!” But the little pig peeped through the keyhole and saw the wolf’s […]
In the story of The three little pigs each pig builds a different house to protect themselves from the big bad wolf. One pig built his house of straw. The second pig built his house out of sticks and the final pig built his house out of brick. The wolf came along and blew in […]
At our teacher’s meeting on May 3, they asked me to rearrange the prop storage area to make more wall room available for our students. Several of our classes are getting kind of large. We have some classes that are about 10 – 12 people in size. Today Shirley and I spent a couple of […]
“Why do you take a step in Downward Facing Dog?” Diane asked me at the end of our third day of the workshop. She continued “I was taught that my hands and feet stay in the same place when you are doing a Sun Salute. But here during our morning practice the teachers are telling […]
I can’t remember how many times Mom came into my room and said “This place is a pig sty. You can’t go out and play until your room is clean and tidy.” Mom had a major impact on my plans for the day. And there I was stuck inside on a beautiful warm sunny day. […]
We are not talking about the usual ways that your body betrays you in yoga class. Your lack of flexibility, strength or stamina are not the issues here. The 7 unexpected ways that you get betrayed by your body are: 3 from your skin: body odour wearing scents body lotion And 4 from escaping fluids: […]
Alice is visiting a friend of her’s farm in Wales. As she walks through one of the fields with the family they flattened all the molehills as they came to them. The kids had a lot of fun making the molehills go away. A mountain is much larger than a molehill and flattening it is […]
Alice is distracted and unable to focus on her yoga practice. Her brow is sweating and it is not because of the yoga poses that she has been doing. She is distracted and sweating because the next yoga pose is Marichyasana C. Normally Alice loves twisting poses like Marichyasana C but tonight is different. Tonight […]
