Do you know what it's like, Dani, to stand on the heavenly diving board of time, looking down at the 10,000 lifetimes you're about to begin? Seeing everything for the first time through prisms of color and light? Feeling totally overcome with such a surge of joy for ALL that lies ahead, that it takes all of your angels just to keep you from leaping before it's your turn? Knowing that no matter what happens you will emerge wiser, richer, and deeply in love with every form of consciousness that will soon touch and expand your own?

Oh yeah...

Nice cannonball.

In love,
The Universe

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You did that on purpose, right, Dani?

In other news, I hurt. In *such* a good way. Anyone who says yoga isn't a good workout can kiss my ass (ahimsa).

1. I will repeat: Anyone who says yoga isn't a good workout can Kiss. My. Ass.
2. I was dying for the first few days, but I made it through, and I got to this weird state of bliss where, even when my body hurt, it would move - and I could figure out how to make it move so the tightness would ease up a little.
3. I've gotten awfully rigid, especially in my hips - and boy have I been able to see where I've become rigid elsewhere in my life.
4. Poi is crazy fun, but it's very easy to keep smacking yourself in the head if you're not careful.
5. Fluid power is by far the best practice I've seen yet. It's so much more... ME. I can even see how this style (although modified quite a bit) would suit someone like Nick, who's very tight from running, but loves martial arts. By the end of a few of the sadhanas (practices), I could actually feel myself buzzing. OMMMMMM...

The main thing I've noticed is how much I really *want* to do this now. And how easy it is to notice my own patterns of negative self-talk; this morning a bit of a fire came up, and although I was upset about it in the morning, and cried about it, I was able to step back from it and notice a) that things were more easily explained than I thought (and can be easily dealt with) and b) what I was really upset about were the bits of negative self-talk that the situation seemed to reinforce.

All this said, I'm definitely getting ready to be back in the Real World - but this experience has been amazing beyond belief. I can't wait to get home and start doing a daily practice!