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Transformation

Transformation takes place through Good Vibes:)

The significance of Nieman Marcus bag is not lost on me.

First week of May, NM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – which is not an end to this luxury brand (where I never shop at anyway, lol) but a restructuring as they plan to re-open when “safe” to do so.

A package of renewal to sustain us got delivered yesterday … a beautifully salvaged top… A top I could not part with but could not wear due to some stains (right – all that dipping of foods into sauces), this talented young designer have given it NEW LIFE. Those days of merely tossing stained or distressed clothes are over – Why trash and dump our earth even more than we have to? Give it a new look, new splash of colors – give it new LIFE !

Can’t wait to wear it at my next virtual yoga class!!

Thank you C !

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More Holes holes holes

Saw a bunny … chipmonks; woken up by not only chirping but shrieking birds… AND warned of a bear sighting but never really got to see the bear. There are still pines and cedar trees but as a second growth forest, the type of trees now growing are different from those trees from centuries ago. Man had logged the ancient forest and now we have … this second forest.

During the Comstock mining era in the 1800s, people clear-cut much of the Lake Tahoe Basin’s forestland to provide wood for settlements and mining operations. Among the trees cut were a majority of the old growth stands in the Basin, many as old as 300-400 years. The removal of so many trees in a short period of time resulted in the re-growth of forests into dense, even-aged stands. Subsequently, fire suppression, intended to protect development in the Basin and throughout the Sierra Nevada, further increased forest density and compromised natural forest processes. Today, forests at Lake Tahoe are less structurally-diverse, less resilient to stress, more prone to catastrophic fire, and support a more narrow range of plant and wildlife species than forests of the past.

– exerpt from California Tahoe Conservancy’s

Forest Improvement Site, 2020

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Making a Small Difference

And here is a really good article from Manduka (my go-to-MAT).

Please read and share:) Here !

Do we want a vibrant community filled with happier people? Just add-on support of local yoga studios as one of the ways. Here’s a small business with integrety of the teaching, aka: quality. It’s usually an operation borne out of love for yoga and if the owners are teachers, you are at the right place. It’s kind of like a restaurant where the owner chef comes out to greet you – it’s that same vibe of caring. I’ve taught at gyms, corporate, and studios and … teaching at the studio is usually most challenging because you feel so much more responsible. Especially when you have a brand new student, OH MY GOD, you are so honored. But responsible.

If you are getting take-outs or even getting to restaurant tables, just extend that love for small businesses to include yoga studios. Yoga fuels you, nourishes you and sustains you as much as that morsal you placed in your mouth. If they are gone, the community suffers especially now that I anticipate more need for people to decompress, move their bodies, reconnect with their breath and balance out the nervous system in the fray … to find their inner-strength and calm during this time of extreme anxieties and stress. That – we can all benefit from.

Yoga teaches us that life is BEAUTIFUL no matter what and all the suffering makes us stronger to appreicate the good and even the bad. To be able to find joy in the mundane ordinary little things … it’s what yogis practice. It’s what you practice with us. With no judgement, calibrating our optimal health by boosting our immune system … you need not get into pretzel pose to attain that -feel your breath and feel the NOW. Namaste:)