Stretching Out at Dhyana Yoga Arts: Chester, NJ: August 24, 2019

Dinner at Ninety Acres at Natirar in Peapack, NJ with our friends Lisa and Gene. The tomatoes and salad were from the gardens just feet away from our table. This part of the world is inspiring and nourishing to me for many reasons.

I love this area of New Jersey. We’ve spent a lot of time here on various tours because our cool friend Lisa and her family live here. We park our bus and hang out at their horse farm. The entire area in these parts in the Garden State is truly a big garden, with fresh-from-the-earth produce available everywhere. It’s heavenly. Biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer writes, “Thinking about plants as persons, indeed, thinking about rocks as persons, forces us to shed our idea [that] the only pace that we live in is the human pace,” she says. “It’s very, very exciting to think about these ways of being which happen on completely different scales and so exciting to think about what we might learn from them.”

I’m reminded we reap what seeds we sow.

There’s also a lot of great yoga. One of my favorite tour yoga stops is here with Deana Sidoti. I met her at Dhyana Yogic Arts even before it was a studio. She was teaching in the area and it was a dream of hers. Today i was lucky enough to practice at her studio and it happened to also be the last day of a teacher training she was hosting. How delightful and inspirational it was to be in the midst of what was once, and not so long ago, just a dream.

It was my favorite part of the class, which is saying a lot because I loved the class.

Vinyasa inspired, it felt great to move after several days of shows and bus time, in combination with an attempt to do some weight training at the gym. David and I pop into Planet Fitness along tour stops to work out . While it all is hard work, the overarching alignment of this tour is Easy Does It, which coincides with the last chapter I’m writing for me book.

Like Deanna at her studio, my book was only a thought four years ago. It’s almost here! It’s close to being done! ’m working like mad to birth it and feel extra inspired and courageous today from my yoga practice this morning.

Health, Love, and Rock N Roll.