Welcome Back To The Road: Yoga at Love.Life.Yoga in San Clemente, CA: February 15, 2018
The tea they served was in a paper cup and didn't have garnish but it might as well have been this fancy because it was served with great kindness.
Sometimes the experience of attending yoga classes is as much about the studio culture as it is the class. It rereminds me of what the sages suggest in the yamas and niyamas and other teachings; its not so much what you do, but how you are doing it.
The first morning of a new tour is always and understandably a little chaotic. It feels especially so since we've been in Maui for four months. Yet a deep and nourishing rest like that stays with you and even though I could see the endless list of tour 'to do's" mounting, it was met with the sense of ease and actually some excitemnet because I've found if one must work to pay her bills, rock touring isn't a bad way to go.
What I was in need of most this morning was a cup of green tea. We haven't made our bus stocking trip yet so there is nothing in the way of supplies on the bus and a Holiday Inn Express isn't a green tea type of establishment. Yet, as luck would have it, a yoga studio was only a half mile away. Tea-less I ventured out in the early morning for class and made an early arrival to the studio where I was met with one of the cheeriest yogis on the planet. While I was signing up for class, she offered me, you guessed it, a cup of green tea.
Lately the realm of manifestation doesn't seem so airy fairy to me. I've been reading the likes of Butterworth, Ester Hicks, and Norman Vincent Peale. And of course the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita have teachings about karma. What's been useful lately is a simple but advanced practice of trusting the universe to meet me with abundance. Its a practice of clearing over and over again fear and negative self worth, which basically is a practice of meditation. A sense of lack has been my main demon but she's growing tiresome and these days she feels more like a dance partner and I have the lead.
Its like inviting her to sit down for a chat over a piping hot cup of green tea.
Namaste.