What is a transformation journey?
- It’s an inner voyage that results in change through awareness practice.
- By developing clarity of mind, you will be able to identify and choose to live your heart’s desire.
- You can feel more joyful, alive and grateful by infusing your life with purpose and most importantly with God.
- If you want to change but don’t know how, you will get the information you need.
- If you want to live a more enchanted, God-reliant existence and need directions, you’ll receive them.
- If resistance or self-sabotage is a problem for you, you will find the solution.
When I first started down my yogic path, I needed to change so many things about my life, it was hard to know where to start. I needed a physical and spiritual transformation, from the mental to the muscular to the molecular. I needed to stop treating my body and mind like a random vehicular landfill. I needed stability, which I had not seen in so long, I had forgotten how it felt. I needed a reset button.
Testimonials the world over continue to suggest yoga eases the symptoms of a range of maladies—depression, diabetes, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraines, arthritis, back pain, and heart disease, for instance—while relaxing the mind and slimming the body.
"Can't you just do all that by, like, running every day for 60 days?" a friend asked me. Good question, but the answer didn’t interest me. None of my past fitness activities—running, cycling, training for fitness competitions, weight lifting, kickboxing—seemed catalytic enough for the depth of change I was and am still after.
I'm not a renovation; I'm a teardown. And I found that yoga was, is, and always will be my bulldozer…..just like God. Yoga is my most precious tool set to bring about the changes I need in order to be more of who God created me to authentically be. Just like the baby doll’s bottom that is 'Made by Matel’, my heart, my mind and my body are ‘Made by God’. I need to be able to give up the notion that I can do it on my own. I surely can plow through on my own, but I can not be the change I wish to see in the world ON MY OWN. That kind of transforming power is beyond me…..you…..all of us.
My time in Costa Rica was just magical. The depth I am pruned to as a teacher, a person, a mother, and a wife are always so unbelievable. There is something so powerful and at the same time so devastating to be apart of someone-else’s transformation all while on your own metamorphosis. That is what these retreats allow. They allow us all to pull way and dig deep, go deep, play deep and relax deep. It is where we learn how nonchalantly we faded into an American existence focused on quantity not quality. That place where career reigns and family is second? Third? Fourth? It is a place where you greet your kids first rather than allowing your children to see that your spouse is THEE most important relationship after God’s that there is in your family. Meals are timed events rather than something that lingers and weaves deeper the emotional ties of your relationships. Blue Spirit living is where care is given to every moment, every interaction. Solitude is encouraged as is sitting down and just being still in the silence of nature’s symphony….no distractions other than the fascination of your surroundings and your inner self…where the demons hide. Coming to your mat twice a day is your vehicle to unlocking your freedom. How did we as individuals and as a nation stray so far away from God’s plan? We know God’s plan is better than anything we can do on our own. God, Spouse, Children, …..and then everything else. Be simpler. Be authentic. Be honest. Inner peace begins with knowing God, but it remains when we choose to get to know ourselves and decide to decide.
I am always grateful that yoga is my bulldozing vehicle back to God’s plumb line. I’m too ravenous for my to do list to be checked off; too motivated by goals and achieving the ’next level’. Decide to decide….and decide now. Are you game? Go have a two hour dinner…..tonight…..make beets and get fascinated that your pee and poop turn purple even when other colorful foods don’t do anything close! Enjoy the simple. Choose to look inside. Choose to heal. Choose to not be bound by a ridiculous schedule. Go play tag. Look inside and get rid of the chains that bind! It is a life journey…..begin today. Your Blue Spirit transformation begins in each and every moment.....and yes, you can always join us next year too :)
Pura Vida Yogis.....Pura Vida.
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