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Dharma and the Karmic Caddyshack
Posted 03-23-2012
It has been a while since I have posted something to the blog. I've actually been writing quite a bit, but nothing felt worthy of posting. I wrote about Keeping your Resolution around goals, about the wonders of Travel, about Taking Time Outs...but all of my posts felt like ginger beer gone flat. Completely sweet, but sickly undesirable and not sparkly. They weren't expressing what's really inside for me right now or saying anything truly compelling. Right now I'm at a stage where I'm having some deep conversations with my inner demons and beasts. As Ana Forrest would say, I'm snuggling up with my inner shadows and having tea with them - inviting them to the table to really learn what they have to teach me. I'm witnessing consciously for the first time a lot about my habits and my life path and passion, but I'm also dredging up a lot of memories (some of them unsavory). One set of memories is related to what seems like the life of someone else: my time as a golf caddy. Did you know I was a golf caddy? Not in a former life...in this life at a younger age. For years as a teenager and young adult I caddied at a local private golf course with my brother and sister. I even received a full scholarship to college through the Evans Scholars program as a result of my caddying career. Despite being a horrible golfer, I was actually an outstanding caddy. Several things have triggered me back to thinking of this time in my life - including a nasty conversation with a student, a harsh interaction with a fellow yoga teacher months ago, and the life progressions of several friends I met during this time. All of these triggers mirrored precise memories of things that had happened in different ways while I was a caddy.
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Head Over Heels - June 9, 2012 - Chicago School of Yoga - 2-4pm
Get to know the powerful connections between your head, neck, shoulders, hips and feet in this Forrest Yoga workshop. The neck is the gateway between your mind and your body, the hips are the gateway between your center and how you walk through your life. By consciously connecting theses disparate areas through asana practice and forging bridges through breath practice you will unlock incredible tools for not only your yoga practice but for walking the path of your life more authentically off the mat. Leave your mat head over heels aware of yourself more deeply. Open to all levels.
Creating a Responsive Heart - June 10, 2012 - Chicago School of Yoga - 2-4pm
There is a frequent emphasis in many yoga practices about heart opening, particularly when backbending. In some situations, open-heartedness is extremely useful and necessary, but it is not the only response needed from the heart. Through this Forrest Yoga workshop you will learn how to create through backbending a present-minded and conscious application of heart energy first to your practice and then to your life in a variety of directions. Create a flexibility in your usage of heart energy and explore how such responsiveness creates a delight in potentially difficult poses or life moments. Open to all levels.
Telluride Yoga Festival July 12-15, 2012 - Forrest Yoga Sessions led by Allison English
GROUP PRICING available at great rates!! Register today!! Join me in an unforgettable, beautiful and sacred setting this summer during the Telluride Yoga Festival. I will be presenting Forrest Yoga workshops and will be joined by a cadre of amazing teachers leading their passion over 3 days of yoga sessions in the mountain town of Telluride, Colorado. For full schedule, more information and to purchase your ticket to attend with me, go to www.tellurideyogafestival.com
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