Holy Yoga

I am just a really terrible blogger!  It is rare to get quiet moments around here for concentration and time to write up the happenings in our day to day lives but right now I just here Lillie's singing in her "quiet time" and the washer, so that's pretty quiet.  PAUSE....what to write, what to write....I will tell you about my Holy Yoga class.

I started to learn Yoga a few months back, my friend Carin McManus had just become a Holy Yoga instructor and was starting a group in her basement, so I went...a bit nervous I must say.  I had the misconception that yogis (people who do yoga, see I already know the lingo) are tall (X not me) skinny (X not me right now in my eyes but that's a whole other blog) and the natural crunchy type (sometimes I like to pretend I am a bit of that...but there are extremes people)...anyhow!  For many reasons I was a bit nervous, not to mention the fact that I wasn't about to dabble in something that was "Spiritual" but not Jesus Christ focused.  So I decided to try it out after hearing some rave reviews on her teaching style and how awesome a person feels after doing yoga.  Lets just say after the 1st day I was hooked.  We met for an hour while Carin taught as as class ended and we entered final relaxation her coffee pot turned on and it was time for coffee social with the ladies, come on who wouldn't want that.  Some of the best perks were the fact that it was on Thursdays, Mark's late morning and it was free will donation that goes to support a local need!  I was so excited to know this would work with our schedule!!  Carin provided an amazing atmosphere to learn, she is easy going and helps you along without the pressure of being new.  We even laugh sometimes :)  The way Holy Yoga is taught is very acceptable in my eyes.  We listen to Worship music while Carin instructs, reads scripture giving us a devotion and something to focus on during our time. Everything, EVERYTHING is pointed towards Christ.  SON salutations, not SUN salutations, drawing our strength from Christ etc.  It really is amazing.  I had missed about 3 sessions which is WAY too many as they are only one week and today I went again only to remember how awesome I feel after and how good it is for me.  Today's we were encouraged to not have critical minds, critical of ourselves, negative thoughts about what we see in the mirror or the lies we are told by satan that we chose to believe, ugly, fat, bad mom to name a few.  We need to spend more time focusing on God, not on ourselves (OUCH).  She also did a session on trial a month back or so and it was all I could do to not just cry through it because I KNEW God was really speaking to me during that time.   Its amazing how each session's topic is exactly what I need at the time.  I look forward to Thursdays VERY much because I know I am spending time meditating on scripture, focusing on Christ and helping my temple become so much better.  I am so thankful that there are tools out there that have been used for bad by satan but God totally redeems for Himself.  I believe Holy Yoga is one of them.  I just love it.

Jamiasi (Praise Messiah or Victory to Jesus!)