grieving

hi all , I haven't put  a post up for a while  as you  know
because   my father declined rapidly over the  last three months .
 sadly my dad passed away on the 5th march  2015   from the final stages of  Parkinson's disease .
 so its  been a rough start to our year  and we have thought  of nothing else  but
supporting my mum  and dad and of course each other.
 now the grieving  begins, I will be  getting back into yoga soon.


















Namaste . 

how hatha yoga helps with dyslexia

 I thought I would do a  post on how good hatha yoga is good for dyslexia .
 so I researched or tried to  but almost everything I came  across was so difficult to  read/ understand  it was like you needed  a degree just to read it !
so I have decided to  experiment  on myself  since I am dyslexic  I thought  why not.
I have most of what dyslexia brings such as learning difficulties ,Anxiety, depression,  problems with concentration  trouble  with direction ,reading maps etc  coordination problems , clumsiness, problems with balance mind going 100 miles  an hour  in my case  I do not have AD HD  but it does pop up in some cases but I must point out that no two people with dyslexia are alike and each have their  own unique  qualities and talents  its never dull living with  a person with dyslexia  actually its an adventure .
dyslexia is  not something you can catch  it is something you are born with  not something that is made up  or doesn't exist  because  dyslexia does  and its very real  and this is what  some people in society fail to realise .  for example this actually happened to me.

"I was out with friends so I thought. it was getting late so one of them offered to drive me home  it was raining and dark my sense of direction is shot so got  confused  on which street  to turn down, this woman  got so cross at me she had me in tears  and I told her I have dyslexia  her response  was but you look so normal . I was  in shock and I thought to myself well  what am I supposed to look like green with warts,  with seven eyes, and a hump no!" I haven't spoken to her since" 
and I am better for it  people who are ignorant like this need  to be pitied  for their lack  of  understanding and lack of education  on dyslexia .
people with dyslexia  are the same  as everyone else. we have something people cannot see hatha yoga is the original  form  of yoga  and over the years different types of yoga have  come out of  it  james and I choose to do hatha yoga.
hatha yoga  and other varieties  of yoga  all have the same result.
I have  heard yoga is said to help people with dyslexia how cool is that ! I already know hatha yoga  helps me  relax  keeps me focused   and helps me sleep apparently
hatha yoga also can help with concentration, anxiety depression, balance, and the eye exercises in hatha yoga is  said to help with reading.
   yoga   with  mediation is also  said to help those with AD HD  and to rest the dyslexic mind 
 so as of today  my  yoga experiment  will begin. I will keep you  updated on my progress through the coming weeks


{NOTE}
always  consult your doctor before doing  any forms of exercise









Namaste.

 

yoga took a back seat while indulging in chritmas and new years

 well it's the start of the new year and we hope everyone had a beautiful  Christmas and brought in the new year safely.

James and I had a lovely time over Christmas everything happening  all at once anniversaries , birthdays and Christmas .  I was spoilt rotten as usual but we never forgot the meaning of Christmas. I  over indulged  on  chips, dips, and  chocolate . it was pure heaven   all the naughty things ! James however was more composed . you see everything came to a grinding holt  it being so hectic   helping Santa out with presents  decorating the house etc.
 now however it's back to being disciplined, this is going to take some doing  its going to be so hard  I will be craving all the naughty things for some time , I always do  after  the  silly season and new years celebrations  are over  , that's why we usually don't have such  naughty things  in the house ! James

and I are terrible  for any kind of sweet  things  they are gone in a flash faster than the speed of light you might say
now is the time to get myself back into shape  it's amazing  how leaving  hatha yoga for a few weeks and going off your normal  diet changes your body, your bodies fat goes into all the wrong places  and you just feel yuck!
once you  restart your hatha yoga  workout and your healthy way of eating  your bodies fat will slowly go back to where it should  be  and you will start to feel a lot better in yourself








Namaste. 

a yoga workout with prudence,sheldon and me

as you might remember from our previous post we had our gorgeous  weiros {cockatiels}  Fergus and Patrick, stolen right from under our noses
 we were and  still are  devastated  James and I decided we would buy  some  more weiros this time though baby ones  we searched for baby weiros and found two 16 week old gorgeous babies  our male weiro is named Sheldon he is a pearl pied and  our female weiro is named prudence she is a cinnamon  .
prudence and Sheldon were supposed to be hand raised, and they were  only partially so it took us nearly 3 weeks  to get them used to the house and their new surroundings as well as  getting used to us , they are now quite  happy to sit on our head and shoulders  and to interact with us . prudence loves her bath and plays with the pen lid. I put a cover on the dining room table   and she just goes to town !
during this time I have only done half a yoga workout  until the other day.
 and it was a yoga workout with a difference  prudence and Sheldon were all over me using me as a giant  perch  at first  I found this  quite distracting  but it didn't take me long  to get into  that relaxed mode yoga puts one into.
so prudence and Sheldon didn't  bother me in the end. I did my full 88minute workout it just shows  that I can do  a full yoga workout even with the help of our feathered babies .LOL!!!  prudence is now helping me write this post she has been multi tasking helping james with the dishes at the same time.
typical girl us girls are good at that!
there is no excuse for not doing yoga. with a bit of creative thinking you can
accommodate  any form of distractions. I have had a mini set back  you might remember the post I did  my back  in I also got a  cactus spike or thistle in my  index finger well I left it and left it my finger got  quite sore  in the end I went to the  DR  I had an ultrasound  and there it was  about the  length of a grain of rice I was told to get it out immediately, so  James and I dutifully went down  to the emergency  department. well lying there nearly dying under local  anaesthetic  two  DR's gouging into my finger, all the while my arm is up in the air! Hand down so they can get to my finger  what a fiasco  ! after all this they couldn't find it  so they dug into my finger even more  without any luck so now I have a bandage on my index finger bigger than my thumb ! and I may have to see a surgeon and all this  because of a little cactus spike or thistle .
the moral of this story is don't put off  until tomorrow  what you can do today or be

prepared to suffer the consequences  as I am  doing and also always wear gloves in the garden !
I am still doing yoga, the floor Asanas  {yoga poses} that don't put weight on the hands so far so good.

 here is a quotation  I really  love by john Lennon


"life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other
"plans"






Namaste.

afrer a setback with yoga

well for the first time in weeks I did  a yoga workout  and Harriet even joined in sniffing and snuffling round my face and ears.
and then  plonked herself right  beside me, even our feathered babies  were good  can you believe it ! I cant. now back to my yoga workout  I cant believe  how each Asana
{yoga pose} I did, came with such ease its like I hadn't  stopped at all .
I was a bit shaky in the balancing Asanas  {yoga poses } but that's to be expected  after all these weeks  I am so excited to be back  doing yoga. I didn't realise how much I missed it and loved it  and I have had the most restful night in ages. my feet had instant relief  from the pain cause by osteo arthritis  it was amazing  .
the next day was just as good in fact  even better  we went and took Harriet for a walk  and there was a chill in the evening air    came home and while eating dinner my ear got  hotter and hotter an ear infection had struck. a week on and I feel much better.
but my ears are still niggly and my balance has been off , but getting there. its so frustrating  I just want to get back to my yoga.
so that's why I haven't written in here for a while .
with all this happening with my health our much loved weiros  {cockatiels } were stolen right from under our noses, in the early hours of the morning on the 13th of this month. so yoga has been the last thing on our minds  we are devastated .
we never thought we would have to put a lock on the aviaries, its quite creepy at how close the thieves came to our house !  in the evenings  when we sit down to watch telly we find ourselves  looking at the empty weiro {cockatiel}  Avery   and  there is nothing there its horrible . we just want our  weiros {cockatiels } back but unfortunately  there is no hope of that I am aiming to get back into  my yoga next week  and hopefully I don't get sick in the meantime.

here is  a little bit of Zen  which might interest you  and give you  some food for thought


"
All life is changing, all the
forms of it, and we flow
with the river or we refuse.
if we flow with the river,
we can digest it , as it were,
as we flow, and feel no
suffering. accept it and
we are one with it; resist
it and we are hurt. "

Christmas Humphreys.












Namaste.