When the postpartum depression set in, I didn't know what hit me. This was not what I expected motherhood to feel like:
https://www.care.com/c/stories/10156/how-i-faced-new-motherhood-with-postpartum-depression/
Join me on May 1st from 2-4pm at Two Hearts Yoga studio in Sherman Oaks, California as we learn how to heal and strengthen the pelvic floor. Whether or not you've given birth, we all need a functional pelvic floor. And it's not just about "doing Kegels"!
There is SO MUCH misinformation out there and I want to help you identify the truths from the myths. I also want to teach you how to connect with your body and get stronger from the inside out. A healthier pelvic floor = a healthier you.
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Most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now.
Acknowledging that this is the structure of the game we are playing allows us to play it differently. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.
- Sam Harris
Stop Being So Religious
What
Do sad people have in
Common?
It seems
They have all built a shrine
To the past
And often go there
And do a strange wail and
Worship.
What is the beginning of
Happiness?
It is to stop being
So religious
Like
That.
- Hafiz
As I prepare to leave for a few days on silent retreat, I am reminded of the excerpt of a beautiful poem a friend recently shared with me. Being on retreat is an extremely rare opportunity to step outside of life and its social norms, busyness and obligations. I don't take for granted that I am able to do this and realize this may be the last time I go in a long while; for all these reasons and more, I am extremely grateful. See you on the other side. -MO
And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
- William Wordsworth
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.
- Alan Watts