Category Archives: Self Illumination & Growth

Nov 7 2012

At Ease with the Butterflies

It’s interesting to feel what my body is going through.  I just received an email from AIM (Ashland Institute of Massage) with the schedule of my classes starting January 2nd.

I didn’t come to Ashland for school, I didn’t come to Ashland to teach a lot of yoga, I didn’t come to Ashland to sing… but it’s all happening.  It has all been so expansive.  I LOVE it all.

My body feels calmly excited.  I don’t know how that works, but that’s what it feels like…  A little fluttery in the tummy but so peaceful about it.  I’m enjoying the experience of anticipation, enthusiasm, maybe a bit of apprehension… so much is unknown, but I’ve learned that you never really know.  This “not really knowing” has become quite comfortable.

Continuously we learn.  Continuously life beckons us to let go ~ yet hold on to something… to love, to trust, to knowing that you never really know–so allow life to unfold in the beautiful way it is meant to without getting caught up in trying to figure it all out.

Can you be at ease with the butterflies?

Nov 4 2012

Bursting!

Lately has it seemed somewhat like this?…

Everything rose up and exploded like a big huge firework, and lots of what we don’t need burned up (though we felt the burn, right?!) while the rest is slowly but surely floating back down into the places where it will best serve the highest good.

It’s kind of like this whole experience was a puzzle showing a particular picture, but that picture doesn’t make any sense anymore so it just had to up and explode.  Now the pieces that are left (and there are fewer because the rest was baggage we don’t need anymore) are coming together to create a newer, much more beautiful picture.

If you’ve been feeling like things are exploding all around you, you’re not alone.  And when we make it through the chaos, we realize all the beauty that has been there all along.

~~Everything comes together, even as the world is falling apart~~ <–from ‘Opportunities Abound.’ sometime i’ll record it for ya.

 

Sep 8 2012

Bumper Stickers

Sometimes I see a bumper sticker around town.  It says, “How can I keep from singing?”

I agree.  I wouldn’t always have agreed, but in these last few months a sequence of events has taken place that has gently shoved me into being, more and more, who I truly am.  Little did I know this meant that I sing.  I sing a lot.  I play my guitar, listen to the messages within the silence…and sing.

Something about life makes me think and feel that flowing into that is what it’s all about.  Maybe for you it’s not singing.  But if you had a bumper sticker, “How can I keep from __________?”  what would it say?

Fill some time with that.  Your life will become more and more beautiful.

Blessed Be~

Laura

Aug 13 2012

Too Fast

I only speed on highways in big cities.

Last week I was driving home from Medford and I glanced at my speedometer. 79.

I don’t think my car has ever experienced that speed.  (It was in a 60 mph zone, too!)

I also noticed in the city of Ashland, where the limit is 20 or 25 depending on where you are, I was moving at a speed closer to 35 or even 40 at times!

My car (well, technically my driving) was telling me, “Hey! You’re moving too fast!”  My life had become this completely insane whirl-wind of activity, action, motion… commotion.  I kept saying yes to everything because everything was so much fun!  I wanted to do it all; I knew I could do it all!  All these things!

On the plus side, I’ve been blessed to teach a lot of yoga this month, which is truly a gift and reminds me to slow down and remember inner stillness amidst any outer chaos.  This is a good thing.  I’m quite sure that if something wasn’t keeping me in check, I’d still be speeding now and one of these days I’d receive a ticket.  I’d rather allow myDharma to bring me back to center than the inevitable Karma I was for a few days creating.

Awareness.

Ah… I now rest into what has become a space–a space between the notes–if I can relax and surrender to this space, magic is inevitable.

I am smiling.

Aug 6 2012

Why Do We Talk About Ourselves Like That?

I just updated my home page to say something like… “This website is in re-Creation mode. Thank you for your patience through this shift.”

If you were to wander through the etheric realm we call the internet and stumble upon this page, with those words, how would you feel about it?  Would you complain?  Would you proclaim, “What! Why should I have to be patient?  This website should be finished or it shouldn’t be up and running!”

My good feeling is no, you wouldn’t have that much difficulty understanding that this website is in progress.

So my question is this, and I ask not only you but myself as well:

Why do we talk about ourselves like that?

It’s like we don’t have the time or energy to be in the process of moving toward the destination; we should just be at the destination.  But we never get to the “destination!”  We are never “finished!”  The only real solution to this perceived dilemma is to remember that we are the destination, our process of progress is the destination.  Otherwise we’re too busy worrying about getting to the finish line to get up and actually make our way there.

There’s nowhere to go.  You’re already there.

Jul 27 2012

From the Spaces In Between

If you visit my website, you will see that it is quite sparse!  It, as I am, is going through a re-calibration.  I look forward to updating it with all of the magic that has happened during the space between…

I opened up to opportunity without trying to force anything, and I received so much grace that in the past, I don’t think I’d have believed it.

All is continuing to unfold ~ more support from the Universe has been received in many forms.  I’ve happily become more involved at Rasa Yoga Center.  My voice coach and I are collaborating on a workshop, Voice Yoga: coming into expression, which we intend to offer in early September.  Music continues to flow to and through me, and a SoulStar brother, Chase Binnie, also a fantastic musician, plans to be in Ashland in August.  I look forward to what unfolds with our mutual love of all things ~ ~ ~ and music, yoga, life. Ah.

Ups come with downs but it is all beautiful.  Until the next update, I send Love.

~.~.~.~

If your heart is calling for support through your transformation,  heed it.  We are not here to do it all alone.  Consultations are always free, and maybe all you need is a quick conversation filled with love.

541.261.2266 or laurachristineanderson@gmail.com

Yoga ~ Music ~ Healing ~ Guidance ~ ~ ~ Into Wholeness.

Jul 8 2012

Where the Magic Happens

I reminded myself in yoga class today as these words (or something like them) came out of my mouth to say to my students:

We do a lot of work in our yoga practice, but it’s the rest ~ like in music ~ it is in the spaces between the notes ~ where the magic happens.
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I am in that period of rest — the space between the notes.  I want want want want want something to happen.  Ah, therein lies the challenge.  Can I await in blissful yet patient anticipation for it to unfold?  Or will I do the very Western-culture humany thing to do and try to do something about it? 

I choose to rest in this beautiful space between, effectively allowing myself to be in a state of openness to receive.  

~Inhale~

 

Jun 28 2012

How to Impress

To Impress a Powerful Woman…

Drop the pretenses, drop the shields, take off the masks and be who you actually are.  You can’t fake being the one for her.  She knows who that is.  And for Goddess-sake, stop trying to impress her.

Concisely, love yourself.  If you do this, you’ll be amazed at who you’ll attract into your life.

This goes for everyone, really.