Sunday, March 31, 2013

Enlightened Motherhood City Yogi, Country Yogi

It’s spring break and later this week Neil, Lucien, Salem (our dog) and I will be packing up Air Jordan Heels Shoes car and heading for a long weekend in upstate New York. It will be Jordan Heels first time we’ve left Nike Jordan Heels city since relocating to Brooklyn a few months ago. As much as I love it here, I can’t wait to breathe country air, hike in Jordan High Heels woods, see farms and rolling hills and green. We’ll be staying not too far from Air Jordan Heels small town where Neil and I lived together and were married more than a decade ago. It’s Air Jordan Heels Shoes place where I changed my life?studying yoga philosophy, meditating, beginning a home practice, transforming my lifestyle and diet. As much as I embrace and love and cherish city life, something in me continues to crave Jordan Heels smaller town “country” experience. And, yes, there’s a part of me as a mother that feels like my child should have Nike Jordan Heels freedom and relaxed pace that comes with a more rural life.

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Is Jordan High Heels country more yogic than Air Jordan Heels city?
The city has yoga teachers and classes galore, Jordan Heels For Women challenge of being pressed up against humanity in Nike Swoosh High Heels subway, on Air Force 1 high heels street, in our apartment buildings. Incredible food and museums and sidewalk life.

The country has space and quiet and blue sky. Time and room for home practice, for contemplation, for nature walks and relaxed conversations.

There’s a farm on Vancouver Island that we took Lucien to for summer vacation several years in a row. We ate from Air Jordan 23 High Heels garden, made pizza from Air Jordan 6 high heels cheese of Air Jordan High Heels farm’s water buffalo, woke to roosters and relaxed in Air Max 2009 High Heels evening to stars. That farm felt like being on Air Jordan 3.5 High Heels edge of Air Jordan 4 High Heels world. On our own private ashram of sorts. (The animals and trees were our fellow seekers.) In our new life here in Brooklyn, Lucien takes a subway to school and sidesteps garbage on Air Jordan 5 High Heels way to Air Jordan 6 High Heels station. But he sees people?life?everywhere he turns. That feels yogic, too.

Ultimately, I suppose, it’s a question of balance. And so we bring some country (a makeshift garden, a family pet, a walk in a park) to Air Jordan 6 Retro Heels city, just as others bring some city (a community theater group, a fabulous bookstore or restaurant) to Air Jordan 6 Ring High Heels country. In Air Jordan Heels Shoes end, perhaps, no place is more yogic than any other?it’s all about Jordan Heels spirit you cultivate in your daily life.