Go Fit Girl

My friend and yoga teacher Vickie is teaching a benefit class on Thanksgiving morning (9:30-11 a.m. Pacific/10:30 a.m.-noon Arizona). Any donation you make to the Alameda County Community Food Bank (in the Bay Area) gets you a spot in the Zoom yoga class. (Follow the link below.) Food security is more prominent than it has been in a long time. Help others while you gift yourself (and maybe someone else) a lovely yoga class.

Holiday Benefit Class VRB Yoga looks to support community organizations while supporting students' practice during the holidays. The Alameda County Community Food Bank is our preferred community support organization, and this year, we're supporting them through their Virtual Food Drive program. How to Give AND Recei...

Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into this dynamic quality, that's called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for this is freedom — freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human ...

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

~ Pema Chödrön ~

Happy Spring Equinox!
On the spring equinox, which occurred today (Thursday, March 20) at 2:01 a.m. Pacific, the sun is directly over the Earth's equator, marking the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, with roughly equal day and night lengths globally.