Fantastic yoga class this morning. Focus: hamstrings. Even after some 10 years of doing yoga, I don’t ever remember hearing that hamstrings correllate with control.

Rephrase: tight hamstrings can indicate control freak tendencies. hmmm, that hit home. I ask you this: what Organizer doesn’t have minor control tendencies? We go into other people’s spaces and tell them what to do, for goodness sake! (ha ha. uh, kind of)

The other theme of the class was Silence. Love it! “Protect silence like it’s an endangered species.” It is about that rare. Listen to the space between words, the space between thoughts.

This concept is great for loosening the brain. The brain gets tight always chattering away! Changing pace by listening to Silence is very calming and brain cooling.

Martha Beck, author of books such as The Joy Diet and Finding Your Own North Star, specializes in working with people who have been on auto-pilot for too long. They long for more satisfaction and fulfillment but don’t know what that means for them. The very first “ingredient” in The Joy Diet (Ten ingredients for joy) is “NOTHING”. Literally do Nothing for 15 minutes a day. Stop the mind-chatter and give yourself a chance to reconnect with your soul’s desires.