Darlings,

In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.

On that note...

The 83rd Academy Awards is this evening. I don't have a television and my internet is down.

I rise at 5AM to propel myself to the nearest internet cafe and imbibe caffeine...an old friend I haven't seen in a while and one I'm all to excited to meet as I gather my intention and set my collective intention for the three classes I will teach in the heat today.

It doesn't matter. They don't mind. No, I MIND. It's important to me to show up with something that makes the sequence that I teach, the same sequence, over and over, more than just a script but a collective experience that changes as we do in body, mind and spirit every time we come to the mat.

Refresh what you come in to. Revive what you want to. Re new what you think you.

Today, LA is filled with all the glitter and glamour we all came here for, whether we admit it or not, it is a part of the cultural experience of BEING here in this city. It's an undeniable pulse and surge of energy amuck. It makes me grateful to be here.

I'm not part of any festivity and will not watch the Oscars, not because I do not want to but because I will be teaching. I'll You Tube it later. And whether you like it or not, our city is the Oscars on this day. So in honor of that, lets celebrate the collective effort to produce the creativity that allows us to escape, congregate and converse over, judge, argue and bet over winners and losers and adore and gasp at the fashion that dons the red carpet.

Let's celebrate that we can practice AND honor what moves us.

Your greatest test is yet to come. - The King's Speech

Take a good deep breath...Lionel Logue, The King's Speech

Everything just comes together. I chose this. Aron Ralston 127 Hours

The only person standing in your way is you. - Thomas Leroy - Black Swan

This is your moment. Don't let it go. - Thomas Leroy - Black Swan

I'm the CEO bitch! - The Social Network

You mustn't be afraid to dram a little bigger darling. - Eames, Inception

With the slightest disturbance, the dream is going to collapse. - Arthur, Inception

I miss you more than I can bear, but we had our time together. I have to let you go. Cobb, Inception

This is the highlight of my day. I hope it's not all downhill from here. - Kevin Spacey, best actor, American Beauty

Do you want to take a leap of faith? - Saito, Inception

Looking back is a bad habit. - True Grit

Recess don't last forever. - Toy Story 3

There's no way out. Just kidding. The door's over there. - Toy Story 3

Never ask for what oughta be offered. - Winter's Bone

You'll never be out grown or neglected, never abandoned or forgotten. - Lotso, Toy Story 3

He's brave, like a cowboy should be. And kind and smart. He'll never give up on you. He'll be there for you no matter what. Andy about Woody, Toy Story 3

Just like me. Keep coming back. Keep practicing and keep celebrating that you can do this every day or now and then.

Yours,

Lady

Darlings,

In Lady Yoga fashion, it is my goal to look back in history to see where we have come from, find the yoga in the moments past to keep us rooted in the present and passionate about where we are going in the future.

On that note...

On February 24^th, 1827 the 1^st parade with floats appeared in New Orleans in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Ahh...let's float!!

On February 27^th, 1827, a group of masked and costumed students danced through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, marking the beginning of the city's famous Mardi Gras celebrations.

Mardi Gras is a Christian tradition brought over from France meaning ‘Fat Tuesday’. It celebrates the last day of indulgence before Lent or fasting before Easter aka the resurrection of Christ. Nowhere is it celebrated more prolifically than in New Orleans. And even though it’s a religious tradition, it crosses religious barriers bringing together people of all kinds with the sole idea to celebrate!

In February of 2006 after being hit by Katrina, the party still went on as a symbol of strength, recovery and zeal of a city in union, tradition and camaraderie.

Let’s bring that strength, zeal and camaraderie into the practice today as our collective intention to celebrate!

Carpe Diem – Sieze the day!

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley

Celebrate what you want to see more of. – Thomas J. Peters.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. – Sydney Smith

Life should be a continuous celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Transform small things into a celebration. - Osho

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Chinese Proverb

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Braveheart

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
Ruth E. Renkl

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Larry McMurtry, 'Some Can Whistle'

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.
Anon

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Indian Saying

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.
Andrea Boydston

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de La Bruyère

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
Anon

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson

Later never exists.
Anon

Let there be space in your togetherness. – Kahlil Gibran

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans urs von Bathasar

Strength doesn’t come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. –Mohandas Gandhi

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann von Goethe

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.
From the movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael Leboeuf

You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
Adam Marshall

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese Proverb

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.
Anon

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
Horace Odes

Not all of us will do great things in life, 
But we can all do the small things in life greatly.
James Yatras

Beads and bras amuck,

Lady