Showing posts with label Yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

25 Things About Me


















This was a recent "game" going around on Facebook.

If you'd love to share your 25 things, please post them as a comment to this post!!!

Here are my 25 things:

1. There are currently 2275 people in my Microsoft Outlook contacts.
2. I cry often.
3. I feel deeply, and I am learning to appreciate this exquisite gift.
4. I love the beautiful peace lily that I have in my dorm room.
5. I love Facebook.
6. Singing brings me more joy than just about anything else I can think of.
7. I am constantly amazed by both the similarities and eccentricities of people.
8. Traveling is a state of mind for me, and has taught me most of what I know.
9. I prefer to spend most of my time with other women.
10. I experience every day is an epic adventure.
11. Every day, I trust myself a little more fully, and that is one of the most exciting things I can think of.
12. I love writing my blog. http://erinpillman.blogspot.com
13. I am learning to listen to my heart more and my head less.
14. My heart is tender and sensitive, and I cannot remember a moment in my life when it did not ache.
15. I have had to edit #1 about five times since I started writing this because the number keeps getting bigger.
16. Raw chocolate, avocados, berries, and coconuts, are some of my favorite foods.
17. Practicing Yoga with my teacher Dharma Mittra while eating a 99% raw vegan diet in 2006 in New York City transformed my being more quickly and profoundly than anything else I have done.
18. I yearn for so many things – complete union with the divine, fulfilling livelihood, a sense of purpose, a close circle of women friends, singing in front of large audiences, feeling fully supported and empowered, a deeper connection with Nature, growing my own food, living in a place where I feel that I truly belong, living more simply…
19. I’m constantly alarmed by all the plastic I see everywhere.
20. I wonder if our species will die out because we are acting like such idiots.
21. I don’t know where I want to live, or if I want to be in school next semester (which starts in a week), but I’m only mildly concerned.
22. I am in the process of recording a children’s album with Lynwood King, the dean of my university.
23. I am a certified yoga instructor, but I have not taught yoga in a couple of years.
24. I want to start singing and sharing my own music – be the star of my own show – touch people’s hearts – inspire and uplift audiences – bare my soul on stage.
25. I am really glad that I am me.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Yoga


















Asanas, meditation, compassion, and karma
Pranayama, concentration, intention, and dharma

Breathe life, exhale pain
A higher state you will attain

Sit, stand, stretch, flow
Twist, turn, bend, grow

Attain enlightenment
Use your body as a tool

Though this body and this mind
Aren’t actually you

Devote your practice to a higher power
And your soul blooms like a lotus flower

Calm your mind, as your heart leads
Every practice is fresh and new

Sew the right seeds
Then reap the fruit

Do the right deeds
It comes back to you

Imagine a world in which no one’s crying
Then stay right there and never leave

Reality is a projection of your mind
Control of reality you will achieve

Speak only words that are true and kind
Give without expecting to receive

Always finish what you start
And listen carefully to your heart

If you don’t, you’ll never do
All the things you’re able to

Stand tall and strong just like a tree,
While blowing freely in the breeze

Feel the sun upon your face
And live a life that’s full of grace

Search deep inside and you will see
Ultimate reality

All beings everywhere will be happy and free
And eternally blissful you will be