going back.

I fell in love with yoga way back when the nineties were converging with the 2000s.

It was a time when yoga was not glamorous or even trendy.

Actually at that time, yoga was still on the fringe in the midwest. In those days finding a place to practice took some digging and detective work as well as a willingness to travel.

I was a digger and willing to travel. I found teachers all over the place that still inspire my teaching all of these years later when yoga is everywhere and hard not to run into in every facet of life.

During that time, I took volumes of notes as I traveled to Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, California, etc. Over the years, I return to those notes held in beautiful journals that traveled with me as I learned a practice that in many ways, saved my life. Those notes remind me. They remind me of people I revered, places I broke open, words that I treasure, teachings that are now part of me.

Recently, I have been returning to those pages and pages and pages of notes. I have felt this calling to go back so that I can go forward. Over these next several entries, I will share with you, some of those old notes. What really moves my heart open is that for the most part, the notes, the words, the ideas, the insights - are completely timeless. They are as meaningful today as they were over a decade ago.

From a journal dated August of 2007: “Yoga is a practice of the greatest connections. Connecting pose to pose, breath to breath. Connecting more fully to yourself as you move your body mindfully. And as you feel more connected to yourself, you begin to connect more fully to that which is around you. Yoga as the greatest invitation to connect.”

Still to this day, I believe yoga is the ultimate invitation to connect to something bigger, the most beautiful call to connect to our own voice, and that which moves us towards a connection to one another.

Big love,
Tammy