Mike Munro's blog

During my yoga teacher training I found myself lying on the floor rolling around in different positions for up to two hours at a time. We were doing Self-Awakening Yoga, a system of yoga developed by Don Stapleton PhD. We would lie in a relaxed position and begin with small movements of a limb and slowly progress the movement to more complex body movements co-ordinated with the breath, all while remaining on the floor. At the time I wondered if this was something that I would find useful as a yoga teacher.

Bead 64, March 5th.

I attended a power yoga class with Jolene today. This is a class where I get pushed in ways that I would not push myself in my own practice. Sometimes you need a yoga teacher to take you places you wouldn't go yourself. Sometimes you need to practice on your own to listen internally to your own needs and practice from that place. I have emphasized the latter over the past few years and what has shown up is some laziness as well. Its a balance and I'm grateful I get to experience both opportunities to practice.

Bead 62. March 3rd, 2014.

Sat in an extra long meditation on this day. I felt the need to sit and do nothing. So I sat and sat and sat early in the morning before my kids needed by attention for breakfast. It felt good to sit like a rock and do nothing, just being. Later on I had lots of energy and even cleaned out my fridge.

Bead 60. March 1, 2013.

Bead 58. Feb 27th, 2013.

Mediation for 30 minutes. Yoga class at noon with Maxine. I noticed that the meditation carried over into my run at the Canada Games centre. I was far more aware of my feet and my stride after the sitting. I think its another example of fomal sitting carrying over into spontaneous mindfulness in activity.