This is MY LIFE

My boss sent me an email today with The Holstee Manifesto on it and it really says it all about life.  I am not sure about copyrights, etc. so I am reluctant to copy the whole thing to my blog but I would encourage anyone to check it out on http://www.holstee.com/.  It starts out with "This is your LIFE" and then reminds us that we are responsible for our own happiness and it doesn't have to be as hard or as complicated as we tend to make it.

"Do what you love and do it OFTEN"..how simple is that.  We get so caught up in the things that others want us to do or what the community/society thinks we should do that we forget that it is all about choices, and ultimately we choose for ourselves.  Of course we find ourselves in situations where we are under someone else's power and sometimes that is okay, but we forget that in the end we can choose to or choose not to.   I constantly hear people whining about what they have to do, me included..but really why can't we do what we want?  What is holding us back? Sure most of us have commitments, family, financial, professional but if you can figure out what it is you want (and sometimes that is the hardest part) why can't you work towards it.  That is what I am doing right now.  I know I want to be a Yoga Dance Teacher and although I am very impulsive and would have loved to take the training last year when I discovered it,  it just didn't work out for me.  It is really strange but I am anxious to do this but I am also content knowing that I will be doing this when the time is right for me.  I am on the list for training in 2012, the first time the training is in Canada and am very excited to think I will be one of the graduates in the first Canadian Training session.  There are Canadians already trained in this but the training has never been offered here before.  I am so grateful and excited to be a part of this group.  My youngest child graduates next year and I really have been a mom who wanted to be around my kids as much as possible, so I can't help but feel that it is working out perfectly for me.  I am working towards it, practicing yoga daily, taking pilates and dance classes and reading books that the Instructor suggested, so I really feel like I am a part of it already.  There honestly isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about it and feel it.  Even with music...I am constantly hearing songs and wondering if it would be one for a Yoga Dance song.  I finally have started a list of music that moves me and hopefully will move others too.  I really can't explain the feeling that came over me from that one Yoga Dance class at Kripalu last year..it was an experience like I have never felt before.  I felt so alive, joyful and free and you know what...I felt beautiful and you don't feel that way very often, or at least I didn't.  I know that my sister-in-law and everyone else in that class that day felt the same thing as the energy and joy was just incredible.  I have never participated in anything before where at the end you were hugging complete strangers and just sharing such love and joy.  I was so happy that my sister-in-law experienced the same thing as it is something that we shared that was such complete bliss and so special.