April 14th

Rooftop Season!

Meet my guest teachers and assistants for my rooftop season. (a few not present) All these girls are unique and lovely in their own crazy, yogic way! I am so excited for them to share their passion with you!

Here to stay!

Live Present Yoga is official! Per the government that is! Thank you Tulsa Yogis for your continued support and love!!

Events

This Sunday! Join me if your in Northwest Arkansas or send this info to ur fellow yogis wanting a groovy class that will have you sweating and surrendering before you do your LULULEMON shopping!! Live Present Yoga is going on the road!! SOLD OUT THANK YOU NWA

Mind Chatter

It's so amazing the bliss that is found when we surrender. Surrender to the need to create, ask, or judge. Surrendering to the need to talk or be right.
If can we just sit, breath in the life around us, ask ourselves and the universe for clarity and then simply let be.
I find myself resisting at times what my soul needs, I then realize I've been feeding off my Ego again and must breath the presence back into my heart. One breath at time I find pure bliss coursing through my veins as the Ego leaves my body.
All this, just by surrendering. The more we let go, the more love we create.

Rumi says it all..

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek to find all barriers within yourself that have built up against it." Rumi

Events

My rooftop yoga class above Ascent will be starting back up Saturday April 14th! I am so ready :)

9am-10:15am every Saturday weather permitting, I will announce all cancelations here and on my Facebook as well as Ascents Facebook.

NurtureLoveGrow

This spring try slowing down. Bring your full awareness not just to the blooming trees and flowers but to what may be blooming inside of you! With this awareness, life will blossom in ways you didn't know at first to be possible. Embrace the beauty blooming off the seeds you have planted. NurtureLoveGrow

I love this!

February 29, 2012
Layers of Feeling
Coping with Passive Aggression

Passive aggression is most often wielded by those who feel powerless and want to avoid their own true feelings.

Many people are taught from a young age to suppress feelings commonly regarded as negative, such as anger, resentment, fear, and sorrow. Those who cannot or will not express these emotions tend to engage in passive-aggressive behaviors that provide them with a means of redirecting their feelings. Passive aggression can take many forms: People who feel guilty saying “no” may continually break their promises because they couldn’t say no when they meant it. Others will substitute snide praise for a slur to distance themselves from the intense emotions they feel. More often than not, such behavior is a cry for help uttered by those in need of compassion and gentle guidance.

When we recognize passive-aggressive patterns in the behavior of others, we should never allow ourselves to be drawn into a struggle for power. Passive aggression is most often wielded by those who feel powerless in the face of what they perceive as negative emotions because they hope to avoid confronting their true feelings. They feel they are in control because they do not display overt emotion and often cannot understand how they have alienated their peers. If someone close to us shows signs of frustration or annoyance but claims nothing is amiss, we can point out that their tone of voice or gestures are communicating a different message and invite them to confide in us. When we feel slighted by a backhanded compliment, it is important that we calmly explain how the jibe made us feel and why. And when an individual continually breaks their promises, we can help them understand that they are free to say no if they are unwilling to be of service.

As you learn to detect passive aggression, you may be surprised to see a hint of it in yourself. Coping with the natural human tendency to veil intense emotions can be as simple as reminding yourself that expressing your true feelings is healthy. The emotions typically regarded as negative will frequently be those that inspire you to change yourself and your life for the better, whereas passive-aggressive behavior is a means of avoiding change. When you deal constructively with your feelings, you can put them behind you and move forward unencumbered by unexplored emotion. 



http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2012/32098.html

Mind Chatter

Don't let your negative self talk hold you back from your positive self growth. Clean out the clutter and fill yourself with LOVE! PeaceLoveSunshine

 Living the life of a Lemon! Recycle, reuse, reduce, EAT FRESH!

Events

Learn from your pain and then shine your light bright for those still walking in the dark, PeaceLoveBELight!

What does yoga mean to you?

Football players need to open their bulky shoulders, runners need to lengthen their tight hamstrings, and dancers need to tighten up the openness they have created over the years. Moms need peace, kids need to practice self love, and elders need their balance back. It is a common belief to many that yoga is about the physical body only. They may think that yoga is warrior two, a prett chattarunga, forearm stands, and oh yes, the mighty dancer pose.


What is yoga to you? What brings you back to your mat time and time again? What was it that brought you to the mat the very first time? Is your current yoga practice feeding your habits or are you allowing your heart to open and shifts to occur?


Yoga means to unite or join and the goals of yoga can range from improved health, releasing suffering or stress, or maybe you just want tighter abs. For me yoga is life, it is in everything. Yoga doesn't need to be this or that.. It just IS. We don't need to look a curtain way, live in a curtain part of town, or be able to wear the newest yoga clothes to begin living a yogic life. After all, this is a practice that started with grown men wearing white sheets around their mid section!


Yoga is in how we communicate, how we care for ourself followed by how we care for others. It is in our ability to look someone in the eyes, see their soul, and then connect to it without fear, to step out each day and love to our greatest ability. Yoga is in the breath and the breath is our life force. Think about it, we would not exists without it's presences. Yoga has no ego or competition, it doesn't win or loose or give trophies away after class. Yoga nurtures, wraps us up in love, opens our heart, and fills us with life. Yoga quiets the mind and offers space for growth or even better, de-conditioning of the mind. 


So it's simple right? Just find your breath, it is the fastest track to this present moment. Begin to love more in your daily life. Give to a stranger and don't tell anyone about it, just do it because loving kindness is your human nature.  Take simple steps off the mat and before you know it down dog will be your next addiction!!

My Office

Sending words of encouragement from my office this week :)

What you say matters, your ideas, thoughts, ability to nurture matters. The world would not be the same without you, and holding back your greatest abilities cheats yourself and everyone around you.

Don't look around to find yourself, look inside! There are already so many, "Katherine's, and Davids" in this world, the world needs YOU..

"Today you are you, that is truer then true. There is no one alive who is youer then YOU" Dr. Suess

Today I will..

Sunrises offer a new beginning. Today I will aline with myself regardless of what others think, I will notice my blind spots and nurture them with love, I will notice that human growth is messy and will not judge this, yet sit in the mess until a flower blooms :) BeachBumLove

Creating

Buenos Dias from Tulum!

Today I will let all in without first decided whether it is good or bad, I will set my Ego aside and learn from those with more wisdom then me.

Bring on the mysteries of the week!

"The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn't think to ask"

Okie love to you! Om