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You can now also purchase my CD, Permission To Rest, online through Amazon.ca.

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/0987772309

Great news for everyone!

Forgotten - One Yoga Mat

Below is an article that is listed under my Relaxation Tab that was printed in the Fall 2010, Comox Health and Recreation Guide. As fall is approaching and we start to prepare for the restart of many activities, I thought I’d post it for you to enjoy. 

Many of the great benefits and opportunities of yoga are found through letting the yoga mat take us to different places.  Whether it is to simply focus and breathe, create stillness, be strong like a mountain, or fold to release, we go places and do things that are just for us to feel and enjoy. 

I will always be a beginner, and be open and happy with whatever comes my way that day.  I hope you have lots of fun activities in your life and can relate to this one of mine.  

Forgotten – One Yoga Mat

When the warm days of summer take us outside to other activities or on vacation, we sometimes take a break from our yoga mat.  Instead of travelling to our yoga class or the gym, they stay rolled up leaning against the wall, in the closet, or buried somewhere in our vehicle.  They’re put out of our minds for a few months.

The pleasing colors of green, pink, blue, purple, yellow, and red that were our close companions during the rest of the year are left unused, forgotten.

When we do get a glimpse of the lonely mat, we think, maybe later, or another day.  It’s too hot, or I’m busy right now.  The mat doesn’t complain, it knows you are taking a break and you will return eager to begin again, and not knowing why it has been so long.

Where else can you immediately find a place to honor your body, a place to build and feel strength, awareness, and balance.  It is a place for your body to breathe and soften, a place for your mind to find stillness and peace, and a place for your heart to find courage and compassion.

This small mat gives us permission to open up to possibilities and choices. It gives us a place where we invest in ourselves and create an awareness that we can take out into the world.  It is a place where the gifts are endless and lifelong.

When you’re ready – Welcome Back!

                                                                 By Dona Anderson

Cd Cover

I have to keep learning how to do things so this is a trail run. 

This is the cover of my CD.

A Time to Laugh

A few days before Nautical Days I wanted to get my hair cut.  It is all one length and since I didn’t have an appointment with my regular hairdresser, I thought I’d go to the no appointment, cheaper place.  It was one of those days when I wanted it cut right now and didn’t want to wait, and I would get to save myself a few dollars as well.

Anyway, all was good until I got home and looked in the mirror.  The hair had been sprayed with water to cut it, and now of course it was going out in all directions.   Oh well, I’ll wash it tomorrow and all will be good.  Unfortunately, it was not.  After drying I could see something was wrong, one side was obviously longer than the other.  Oh NO! 

I didn’t feel like going to get it fixed right then as I was busy with other things, so this was how I looked all weekend talking to lots of people.  Do you think they noticed? And to add to the story, my hairdresser visited the next table to see the jewelry lady and noticed me and we talked.  I was trying to stay back so she wouldn’t notice and wonder about my hair.  Then after she left I told the jewelry lady about my hair, and we had a good giggle.

A few nights later, I was in the bedroom laughing at how funny I looked, and then I remembered a few years ago when we were traveling my husband got a haircut somewhere and it looked like they put a bowl on his head.  So then I started laughing even more and my husband came in the bedroom wondering what I was doing, who I was talking to, and what I was laughing at.

So the next day I went to get my hair fixed.  I was in the right place that day to go back and ask them to fix it.

I am reading a book on healing with my ladies group and the chapter we are on right now is loving yourself.  This is a pretty important chapter about honestly accepting everything about yourself in this moment, the good and the bad.  We put out what we believe and feel about ourselves and that is how we’re treated and is what we get back.  We can make our life as wonderful or not by what we choose. 

The journey is not about how I look, it is about what I believe, what I tell myself, feel, accept and let go of.  It is about always growing and improving.  I may not be where you want to be yet, but I’m not where I used to be either. 

Years ago I would have gone right back to get my hair fixed, but that week, I laughed about it and knew that I would go and get it fixed another day.  It didn’t affect what I was doing or who I was. I had more important things to do, and I was perfect that day just as I was.

He picked a Green Card

One of my special moments of the festival weekend was with a small boy, maybe 4.  He must have seen me handing out the wellness cards from a distance and when he got to me, I was talking to a friend, so he came right back behind the table and asked it he could have one of my cards.

I said of course and that he could pick out his own, and to also pick one for his Mom.  So he picked a yellow one for his Mom, and then said his Dad needed one so he picked a blue one for him, and then he said he wanted a green one, then off he went so happy.

As green is the color of the heart chakra, I was not surprised he picked that color.  He seemed full of warmth and generosity.

I just love it when the little ones create those special moments so easily that touch your heart!


(My show handout cards are on colored paper, where the actual cards are white with colored roses)

Great Festival Weekend!

Thanks for the great weekend, Nautical Days!  Nice weather, so much free entertainment, and those plates of fries sure looked good as they passed by!

Thanks to everyone who stopped to chat.  I handed out about 800 wellness cards and received a lot of thanks and smiles back as the message was fitting for the day.  

Now I need to go off and listen to my CD and relax myself!

Again, a big thanks to everyone I met and talked with , and thanks to those that made purchases. 

Hopefully I will get to attend Nautical Days again next year!