Your Story for a New Year

This Thursday >>> Celebrate the Winter Solstice  Everyone has a story.  Everyone wants to tell their story.  And Everyone's story is worth being told. As we live through each season we move forward through cycles, change and choice. Within us and all around us.  On the solstice we move from the time of Ether to Earth.  Each of the seasons is symbolized by one of the 5 elements: Winter = Earth, Spring = Water, Summer = Fire and Fall = Air.  The element of Ether is symbolized by the time between Halloween and the Solstice.  The element of ether is symbolic of our intuition, our ability to close our eyes and sit still.  It is a place of creativity before boundaries, judgment, insecurity and this freedom is what ignites the creative spark at our core. It's where the story begins. It gives us a light in the dark, our word for the year, an idea on how we would like to tell our story for a new year.   But in order for our word, dream, desire to manifest it has to become physical, like a seed.  It has to take shape, to have a place to root into and grow.  The element of earth is symbolic of the body.  As we move from ether to earth we start to manifest our idea physically.  We begin to make choices about the way we breathe, move and rest to build a body that reflects where we are now and what direction we want to go.  Our bodies literally take the shape of our hearts and minds, each pose a reflection of our awareness as we weave and unwind our narrative of experience. This Thursday night we will move from Ether to Earth.  We will move from one season to the next and into a new year.  We will step into a new cycle of change and choice   and create the story of a new season in our lives with us as we go. "At the end of the day, your life is not the sum total of the things that happened to you, but how you told the story." - Douglas Brooks  See You Thursday 12/20 @ YOGA Garden 630 - 800 $15/drop-in or $12/class pack Questions?? laurel@yogagardenmpls.com Love, L

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We celebrate Halloween this week.  When I was a kid it was all about the candy and costumes, which I loved, and still do.   As an adult I've learned a bit more about it's origins I think it's actually a really beautiful day.  It's become one of my favorite holidays.

Halloween marks the day the veil between our world and the spirit world is at it's thinnest.  It is also the 1/2 way point between the Fall equinox and the Winter solstice.  Halloween marks the day we think of the stories of those who have passed before us and find a foundation in their love and support to take us into the dark as we move toward the light of a new year.

As we move toward a new year we pick a new intention.  Within every word there is a mantra or a seed to a story.  It's called a Bija Mantra.  Bija means Seed, Mantra means to transcend. Perfect.

For a new year I wish for us all to create the story of our lives we most truly want. To be creative and to suprise ourselves by doing something new. To not waste time but still have fun and give ourselves space to explore. To find a core group of people to do this with who understand this process and are adventurous at heart. To plant these seeds of new creative beginnings. So back to the idea of choosing a word.  Every word is both a seed and a story. Every word contains it's raw power in it's individual letters and pronunciations and a description and understood explanation in it's meaning. So through this process of choosing a word a story starts to unfold. We give ourselves a focus for the year, a place to go when we start to lose sight of our focus and create a new pattern.

Every one of us has a story. All of us want to tell our stories. And all of our stories are worth being told.

I hope to See you Thursday @ YOGA Garden 630 - 800 to plant the seeds of a new story...

Love, L