Sunday Night Stress

Love this.

Your body is precious. It is your vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

--Siddhartha Guatama

It is Sunday evening and I feel so fortunate to be looking at the upcoming week with joyful anticipation. So different from previous years where Sunday night came with "Sunday night stress". A phrase I would use as an explanation, even an apology, for my often unpleasant behavior on Sunday evenings. The looming week of tests and homework in my younger years followed by deadlines and conflicts in my working years then tests and homework again as my children became school age.

Now I get to spend my days in the world of yoga, inviting in the positive and reciting my mantra of "acceptance". I like to think that the real change has been within me and not simply a change in the surroundings. However, I am grateful that I won't be testing that theory this week.

This week is truly joyful as Friday, my dear friend, Rebecca, arrives from Austin to present several workshops at the studio over the following weekend. Rebecca travels and conducts workshops through Spirit Works, an organization she founded, and serves on the board of Living Compassion, an organization in California doing great work and truly rooted in compassion.

In addition to being just plain smart (as in very,very intelligent) and kind, she is really, really funny. She has the kind of humor and warmth that makes me feel I am just as smart, kind and funny as she. I am in awe of her level of commitment to bringing good and peace into this world, by helping individuals find their own personal peace and am honored to have her return to the studio.

It is going to be a great week!