LOTS of things going on in life. I had a date on Tuesday with a pretty great guy, but he travels a lot, so the verdict is still out on him. Friday night I got a pre-valentines day staycation with this guy I’ve seen for a minute. He is super sweet so I cannot complain. He booked a room at the Hotel Alessandra. I had been there a while ago with #frontrow for their opening but had never stayed there. I had a preview of how beautiful its lobby and details were, but I was blown away. I highly recommend it, it was such a beautiful and well-done room, absolutely floored. I should have taken more pictures of the room. Dinner was at the fabulous Vic and Anthony’s downtown, which the hotel graciously drove us to in their Maserati. Dinner was amazing. The food and service were excellent, this is probably my new favorite steak house in town. Which left me with the contemplation on why I had never been there before. Seriously, finger licking if that was an appropriate thing to do. Went back to BB Lemon for lunch, but this time it was a bit disappointing, and truthfully it was their cream of corn. I love cream of corn and this didn’t have cream. Saturday night I went over to the warehouse district to a gallery opening. It is called The Whimsy World. It is open to the public until the end of the month and worth checking out. And let mention the bathroom, its called the Beyonce bathroom. Oh and I cannot forget to mention the very gracious goody bad we received, I mean we got Kendra Scott.
As far as my yoga challenge. I am not going to lie, this last week was a hard one to surpass. Just feeling extra heavy, like I was pulling a boulder up a hill. But I made it thru to week 4. It is always great to know that other people are feeling what you’re feeling, being on the same boat. Not just instructors but other participants said the same. Which is great! I am not the only one muddling thru it. The primary thing that stood out was my group meeting. The group meeting is a small dose of group therapy without professional help but a soundboard. This week was all about taking a stand and sharing the stand you are making with the people in your life. These are mine:
- I take the stand of being at peace with myself.
- I take the stand for others, by being courteous and listening.
- I take a stand for the world by being part of the solution and not the problem.
The below came from the teachings in the group meeting, and it was the inspiration to what we were making a stand to, I felt I had to share it inspire others.
“Many social justice or social activist movements have been rooted in a position. A position is usually against something. Any position will call up its opposition. If I say up, it generates down. If I say right, it really creates left. If I say good, it creates bad. So a position creates its opposition. A stand is something quite distinct from that. There are synonyms for “stand” such as “declaration” or “commitment,” but let me talk for just a few moments about the power of a stand. A stand comes from the heart, from the soul. A stand is always life-affirming. A stand is always trustworthy. A stand is natural to who you are. When we use the phrase “take a stand” I’m really inviting you to uncover, or unconceal, or recognize, or affirm, or claim the stand that you already are. Stand-takers are the people who actually change the course of history and are the source of causing an idea’s time to come. Mahatma Gandhi was a stand-taker. He took a stand so powerful that it mobilized millions of people in a way that the completely unpredictable outcome of the British walking out of India did happen. And India became an independent nation. The stand that he took… or the stand that Martin Luther King, Jr. took or the stand that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony took for women’s rights—those stands changed our lives today. The changes that have taken place in history as a result of the stand-takers are permanent changes, not temporary changes. The women in this room vote because those women took so powerful a stand that it moved the world. And so the opportunity here is for us to claim the stand that we already are, not take a position against the macroeconomic system, or a position against this administration, although some of you may have those feelings. What’s way more powerful than that is taking a stand, which includes all positions, which allows all positions to be heard and reconsidered, and to begin to dissolve. When you take a stand, it actually does shift the whole universe, and unexpected, unpredictable things happen.”
Lynne Twist
XOXO
Ana
Everyday Banana 
Excellent post. I was checking continuously this blog and I’m impressed! Extremely useful information specially the last part 🙂 I care for such information a lot. I was looking for this particular info for a long time. Thank you and best of luck.
LikeLike