Your Sunday DOWNdog POST! – Week 1 (Winter Session)
Last night I watched too much TV (I am totlly hooked on the series, “SUITS!”)  followed by too much ice cream. (Let’s not forget the chocolate chips!)  I then sunk into a relaxing yoga practice to have a good night’s sleep.  It was late when I finally got to bed.
The yoga didn’t work.  
I was too wound up on sugar and TV.  Tree pose would have been difficult! I had a restless sleep.
This morning I wasn’t a happy camper and decided to sell the TV and ditch the rest of the ice cream!!  I was desperate to restore balance to my daily schedule.
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No one will argue that it is important to have a balanced life: we need to balance our body energy, our mind energy, and our heart energy 
However, it is most important to balance our body energy (balanced and nutritious food; daily exercise balanced with relaxation; sound sleep).  The mind energy and heart energy are largely  dependent on a balanced body energy. 
And so as the New Year begins, our Week 1 yoga practice is an invitation for  RESOLVE: resolving to create better balance in one area of our life that affects our body energy.  
Keeping our energy balanced is a yin/yang operation: balancing our sun/moon energy.  And since we have shorter days and less sun, it becomes much more difficult to stay balanced in the winter months.  Bringing some awareness to this fact is a beginning.  Making a small change in our daily schedule is an important first step.  I have resolved to relax more and have started playing the ukulele and the piano again, on a daily basis.  This small change in my daily schedule has made such a difference.  I am happy I included it in my 10 resolutions!
I am very much looking forward to our practice! Namaste!
Jocelyne and Jake PhDOGDROP-in availability for Week 1 (January 6th and 9th)
2 spaces in the Monday evening class 7h15-8h302 spaces in the Thursday evening class 7h15-8h30