Tag: retreat

  • Mindfulness Classes

    I have been teaching an adult gentle yoga class at the library where I work for a little over a year and have just recently added a yoga/mindfulness into the mix. It took quite a bit of convincing for my boss to let me teach another class as I am the Youth Librarian wanting to…

  • Attention

    “His mere presence demands attention,” the woman next to me whispered.  I looked back to the robed man pacing on the stage and wondered what I had gotten myself into.  I had signed up for a youth retreat, but it seemed a little more like a brainwashing than a yoga retreat.  It was fascinating and I couldn’t get enough.  The…

  • Mother of Beauty

    I always wanted to be exactly like my mother.  She was the nicest person I had ever met and was always surrounded by people.  I wanted to be just like her, but the more I tried, the more I felt my own spirit drifting away.  Drifting away to drown.  I found myself drowning in regret…