Month: March 2016

All courtesy of SK-II & Utube …:) I know few single moms but they are all very strong – and beautiful like her. Really admire their strength.

“Beauty to me is not surface beauty. It’s about making the way you live, beautiful too.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n61cjclq7M

and here’s another … beautiful …inspiring goddess:)

& she is also very lucky that she had the resources to “just pack my bags” and take off to pursue her dreams in fashion. Not everyone has that resource and despite the talents, quite stuck. Hands are tied, and feeling very stuck when one has responsibilities to fulfill  …Yet that reality aside, this story, her narrative is commercial perfect – lovely.

Many of us can relate to the agitation of the mind …

“I was just struggling with a restless mind” …
and yoga ends that struggle.

That’s the promise of this practice,
if done right.

No, you are not – THIS is what it means:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEsSelxH1yw
No noise, no sounds … so isolating … Yet, picking up on the vibration, the sound-less sound, she harnesses that expressive energy. Connecting… Alert and connected without the hearing ability – Isn’t it amazing because …

Deafness does not define her.

Wondering what kind of self-imposed weaknesses or “disability” we define and limit ourselves with?
Body image?
Language ?
Lack of flexibility?
Hyper flexibility?
Age?

One does not have to just take the cards that are dealt to you – one is empowered to “change destiny”. While I don’t have any opinions of SKii products (other than to see that no wonder they are so expensive with such glamorous ambassadors representing their products), I am inspired by some of these stories of tenacious women who overcame adversity.

Sometimes in yoga, I do feel like I am in water but not in a way that isolates. Rather, in a very pleasant way feeling like really turning into a creature of nature, going back in time to enter the realm of oneness – swimming and floating in ease; sounds are muffled and hair swirling like seaweeds – it’s rather ethereal … like the time in Lake Tahoe crystal blue water – sooooo icy cold, you are fully AWAKE, seeing the brilliance of light streams running through water as strands of your hair runs freely through the crystalline waves – it’s exhilarating to be so consciously alert – It’s the same kind of feeling after a very good yoga class – light, refreshed and clear-headed – that’s the feeling I hope to share.

I do not use SK-II (too expensive!) but … I adore these two actresses. They are sooooo beautiful. Just stunning:)

Can’t wait ! Ayase Haruka is starring in the much awaited 2016 NHK Taiga fantasy drama “Seirei no Moribito” (The Guardian of Spirits) – first episode showing this weekend – The drama is based on a 10-volume fantasy novel by Uehashi Nahoko published in 1996 which had sold over 4 million copies to date. To commemorate NHK’s 90th anniversary, this drama will be shown over 22 episodes in three years starting tonight ! It’s going to be amazing … trying to figure out how to watch it here…

BTW – importance of capable, skillful interpreter cannot be over-empathized where different languages are spoken. One slip up by that interpreter can be detrimental to forging good will, friendship … mutual understanding.