This week I stopped shaving my armpits. The scary thing is that I have no idea what it will look like. Society has us so conditioned. The moment I had some peach fuzz, I was all over my mom to let me shave it so that I didn’t stand out. I’m actually kind of excited to see what it will look like. For something innate; it is insane that I am so disconnected from it. It makes me think about all of the bullshit that people call beauty in this world… Instead, I buy a razor and soap (or shaving cream), [View Full Entry]

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In case I have not said it yet, WELCOME FALL!!! The leaves are changing colors... There is a bite to the air... The rain cools the skin... All signs of Fall are making their appreance. I stand here looking out at the black night and am so greatful to be alive. To be witnesses so much life and to have the capacity to love. The awareness to know that I love. To feel with all of my senses and witness. Gratitude. Tonight was such a great night with my students I just had to share. First of all, I had one [View Full Entry]

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It’s 8:30pm on Sunday and I am settling back into life in Gyeongsan. I spent the weekend celebrating the birth of a friend. We went on a ‘camping’ trip. I put camping in parenthesis because the camp site was in the middle of a heavily trafficked area of a national park. We were expecting to go out into the woods and experience an escape from society. Instead we camped right next to the hustle and flow. We ended up in these white tents that had to raised platforms (common in Korea) of linoleum wood to sleep on. They lined either side [View Full Entry]

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I was handed a stack of essays to judge today. They made for an interesting read. The topic was mass media and the question was whether or not younger generations are effected more by mass media. Students unanimously stated that they believed younger people were more affected. The students cited examples such as the prevalence of cyber culture, how young people aren’t given the tools to critically think, and how information (however bias or accurate) is just a mouse click or remote control click away. I was thinking about this as I was walking home from work today and I noticed [View Full Entry]

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It is a rainy day and the great thing about a rainy day is that it forced everyone to slow down… I am teaching tonight at my high school. That means no studio. I have to guide myself today through yoga. It is great practice of self discipline, but I love the energy heavy in the air at the studio. Last night I had a dream that I went back to the United States and was rehired at the coffee shop I worked at. No one trained me because they assumed I would remember how things were done. I was part [View Full Entry]

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How to describe today? *Rebirth* Today was graduation day for the yoga leadership course that I have been a part of for over 10 months now. I spent a decent part of today laughing to myself about how interesting life is. I, along with my classmates who were also graduating, crawled through a canal of white spandex that was lined on both sides by non-graduating and previously graduated members. They lifted the tunnel-like stretchy material; they twisted it to seal it off; they made the crawler fight their way through. It was the oddest, comfortable thing I have ever done. As [View Full Entry]

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Today I graduate from the leadership course... After 10 1/2 months in a 6 month program, I am spreading my winds and joining the ranks of the other 10 graduating classes. Magical. We are having a party, which I am really excited about because it has been too long since we, the yoga studio, have let lose and celebrated in an official way. I am bringing a bunch of little yogurt packs. It should be good times. *Here is another one: You know your in Korea when, you wake up at 8am on a Saturday, look out your window, and there [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday had me meditating on self-love. For several reasons I am feeling a little home sick, which as the owner of the yoga studio frequently says, this is me rejecting the moment and saying no to life (living in the past or future), but alas, it is how I feel. It will change. Also, going to the yoga studio three times a week, I am getting much less body contact, so my body is protesting a little bit. I feel a little empty space inside that I know is my responsibility to fill… and I am opening up to let it [View Full Entry]

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Week two of teaching is in full swing. And my students are pretty much professionals at ushering me into situations where I put my foot in my mouth. We are doing a series that I am in the middle of constructing called, “Taking a Trip.” The students plan and organize a fictional trip that they would like to take to anywhere for any length of time. Then they have to create a budget, pack, go on the trip, write a diary about trip highlights and then give a presentation. Today we are at the ‘where’ and the ‘why.’ The students picked [View Full Entry]

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I enjoy experiencing yoga with every ounce of my being. It is so encredible, how even unintentionally, yoga is transmitted through people. I was at a cafe drinking coffee last night with two friends. I had just come from the Leadership course where we spent the day talking about breathing, fear of death/fear of life, and therapy. One of the guys I knew and one of the guys I had never met. He had, 6 months prior, sold everything he owned and set off on a journey around the world. He said that it was sad, but liberating to get rid [View Full Entry]

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