BE yoga~Yoga with Krista

Happy Mother's Day to all of you who are mothers or have ever been mothers. This year is an exceptionally special Mother's Day because we are expecting a new baby on December 12th! Yes, I am 10 weeks pregnant, exhausted, but thrilled. Yes, I will keep teaching but next session I will probably lift my load a few classes as I am struggling to maintain my energy. I want to thank all of you that have already given their congratulations and have been so supportive. I really appreciate all the support as this is a very special pregnancy for me. Many of you don't know that this is my fourth pregnancy. When we first moved to DC 2 years go I was pregnant with our second child. Two days before she was due to be born she died and I had a stillbirth. A few months later we tried again trying to move on and fill our void. We got pregnant right away and at 14 weeks we lost our second baby in less than a year. We have been waiting to try again and we weren't quite ready yet this time but blessings often come when you are looking for them! We are thrilled, nervous, thankful, nervous and blessed. I am working hard to be present in the moment and enjoy every bit of exhaustion, nausea and fibromyalgia flare up as I know it is all for a good cause.

 

I share this all with you because it is a topic that is very rarely discussed in this society and I want to bring it to light. Many women and families lose their babies. We often don't know what to do when it comes to Mother's Day or don't recognize that day for these women. They ARE mothers. They had a baby. All the hopes and dreams for that baby were already imagined and thought through time and time again whether they lost their baby at 7 weeks or after they were born.

 

SO HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL MOTHERS!

 

And Thank you so much for your continued support! You are a wonderful community!

Has it been a while since you have cleaned your yoga mat? Here is an all natural way to clean your mat. Grab a spray bottle and water. Add 10-15 drops of TEA TREE OIL. You can buy this essential oil at YES! or Whole foods. It is an antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral. I use it to clean my house and for wound care. You can also add LAVENDER oil for an even better scent. Lavender oil is also an antiseptic and great at soothing bug bites. Spray your mat with the water and oil (s) and wipe thoroughly. You do not need to rinse off. Voila! A clean, great smelling mat!

 

It is a Sunday morning and my husband, daughter and I are driving to a birthday party for a friend of ours that is turning one. We are excited to see our friends and had hurried that morning in order to get there a bit early. I am munching on some sesame sticks because I was too busy getting the family ready to get breakfast for myself and I am complaining I didn’t even get to drink my tea. We are driving on a road we have driven many times before when I yell to my husband to watch out as I point to a tree falling into the street. He swerved a bit but all of the sudden there is a huge crash on top of us. Glass is flying everywhere. I am screaming. I think we might all get killed. I realize a few moments later we aren’t dead, we are all fine, just a bit of blood dripping off my husband’s temple.  I do, however, realize we are not out of danger yet. We have live broken electrical wires lying all over our car and more electrical wires sparking and catching the tree on fire. In a hurry, I tell my husband to drive out from under the wires  before we are electrocuted. There are wires everywhere so I suggest driving onto the sidewalk and out from there.  We were able to make it to safety. I call 911 and my husband gets our daughter out of the car. I am shaking like I never have before and I am fully aware of the amazing event that just happened… (one minute earlier, one minute later and this whole situation would have been different). I try to remember that I am a yoga teacher and all the things I have learned about calming the body and mind. It helps a little but I am truly shaken up!

I didn’t see my life flash before me like you hear about on TV, but, after we returned home I did take time to assess my life. I wanted to examine whether this is the life I wanted.  This life I am leading right now, is it what I would choose? Am I doing what I said I would do? Am I living the life I want to lead? Am I happy? These are tough questions that we think are so important, yet we often ignore them from fear of finding out the answers we don’t want to hear. Or these are questions we don’t ask because we don’t  know how to change the life we have into what we want it to be. 

Often we get comfortable in the life we have, but are we in fact stagnating? Are you growing as a person? Are you trying to achieve specific goals? What do those goals embody? If you left your earthly body today, what have you achieved and would you be satisfied with that?

I asked myself many questions in the following days. I would have to say that I am lucky. I am leading a life I am proud of. I am working towards goals that better myself, others, and the world around me.  I am happy.  If I would have died, I would have been happy with the path I have created for myself, but would have wished I had more time to achieve even more.  I am glad that I have continued to ask myself these questions over the years so that I could make the changes to come to these answers.

What about you? Don’t wait for a tree to fall on your car or have your life flash before your eyes before assessing your life. Make the time and do it now.

Welcome to the first Blog entry for BE yoga. I am excited to have a place where we can share thoughts and comments and I can share a little more yoga with you. Please join in on any discussions/comments and add your thoughts. I am going to keep this one short, but I will be back soon with another blog entry.