Why wait for this weekend to voice your gratitude? Why not celebrate a Thanksgiving each day as you take your first sip of coffee/tea, kiss your loved ones a good day, arrive safely to school or work and before you enjoy your evening meal.
I usually I have a hard time saying goodbye to the summer season. Summer is the season where I have more time for adventure and ease.
Adventures usually start with an idea that either grows or dies. This time my crazy idea of thru-hiking the John Muir Trail (JMT), in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains has evolved and brought me to this exact moment.
Fifteen years ago I started practicing yoga as a new beginner. Consistently I have practiced over these years and have discovered I am always a beginner – just as each day is a new beginning, so it is every time I step on my yoga mat.
Throughout our whole lives, we learn, we accomplish, we fail and we grow. We hope to one day have “figured it all out” or to have at least answered the questions that plague us the most.
We just had the pleasure of reading two fantastic books during the spring book club and we are eagerly looking forward to the summer reading list.
We have counted the votes and the spring selections have been chosen. We are excited to announce the spring selections for the upcoming CSY Book Club!
The votes were counted and the books and charity (The Covenant House Toronto) were chosen. We read and then we gathered. I was very excited to meet for the first time with the new group that was emerging at Creating Space Yoga studio.
The winter book club gathering was a success and we look forward to moving into the spring with an evolving group and another list of books from which to choose.
We were excited to put together a book list, choose charities to match each book selection and then to finally present the idea of a new CSY Book Club to our studio community.
I remember moving away from home at the age of 18 feeling confident that I was already worldly, independent and smart. I was full of hope and in my opinion, already had an incredible sense of knowing. It amazes me when I look back and marvel at my young confidence.
For Oakville’s Robyn Bowman, owner of the Creating Space Yoga Studio, the holidays are about helping others.
“I know the holidays are approaching when my inner elf kicks in and I start preparing for the annual Holiday Pyjama Drive for the Halton Children’s Aid Foundation,” she noted.
Many people think that meditation is difficult. They can’t even fathom sitting still for a few minutes let alone 45 minutes. Who has time for that???
Every Spring the CSY Community pulls together and enjoys a book donation/exchange for a couple of weeks at the studio. All of the used books collected are donated to the Oakville Literacy Council for their annual Used Book sale. Each year we are overwhelmed with donations and the enthusiasm for books in our yoga community. Obviously, there are a lot of keen readers among our yoga students!
A strong focus at Creating Space Yoga Studio is the encouragement of community and "doing our part and giving back". Although our students do come to CSY to practice their yoga and to discover new things about their own body and self; another consistent theme in the intentions of our practices also rests in the desire to reach out into our community to connect and help in small and big ways.
This is how I see it ... 1. we only have the moment and 2. our lives are a series of moments linked together.
I remember teasing Dr. T. several weeks ago. I poked at him, “Why would anybody want to learn about the MPC?” He rolled his eyes, laughed at me (as he usually does) and then sighed and spoke. He said with a coy smile on his face, “Robyn, this lecture will change your life! It will allow you to understand what you teach more fully. Robyn, you will come to love the MPC!”