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Downtown Durango in the Smiley Building 1309 East Third Avenue First Floor, Room 10 donna@desertnomadyoga.com |
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Desert Nomad Yoga |
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Volume 2, Issue 7 July 2008 |
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Private and Private Group Instruction in Yoga, meditation, and Stress Reduction. |
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Lunchhour Yoga is Back! Join us beginning July 9th! |
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Kara’s Turkey Meatloaf |
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Yoga and Intuition |
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For those of you who have been practicing yoga for awhile, you may have noticed that your gut instincts or inner hunches are proving to be right more and more and it’s almost uncanny. It’s not only that yoga helps you think more clearly and objectively, it’s also that yoga is helping to intensify your intuition by clearing out crusty ole mental debris so that your energy circulates the way it was intended and more energy is brought to your higher chakras, notably what is called your third eye. I don’t know about you but I can think of a whole list of personal examples where I should have listened to my “inner voice” but didn’t and things went awry or, better yet, where I did listen to my inner voice and everything worked out just dandy.
For example, not to go on and on about the miracle of giving birth, but I wanted to share the latest of my new discoveries and applications for yoga and the re-affirmations I’m encountering. |
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As many of you know from the last newsletter or from running into me out and about, my daughter was faced the wrong direction during birth and rather than use the suction device or perform a c-section, we ended up delivering my daughter in cobbler pose, a pose that opens the pelvic region which is quite handy if you’re trying to give birth and the birth path is a little smaller than she being birthed. The birth was a success, but seconds before Nila came on through, we heard a loud SNAP and after birth I had a lot of pain in the area of my tailbone. We (me, the doctors and nurses) all assumed the tailbone had broken, especially since I’d broken it before and since there is nothing you can do for a broken tailbone but stay off it and let it heal, we didn’t even get x-rays. So I stayed off of it and did very little in the way of exercise or yoga right after birth trying to give the bone time to heal. However, I kept getting this feeling that something in my back needed to pop. A month later and I’m at the doctor’s office for my 6 week checkup and she’s telling me how beautifully I’ve healed and I told her that nothing seemed to have healed in my nether regions which she quickly dismissed and said that basically the tailbone takes time. While I understood that to be true (from previous experience), I couldn’t silence my inner voice that something wasn’t broken, it was popped out of whack! So I insisted on an x-ray. Sure enough, my sacrum had popped forward, raising the coccyx (tailbone) up so that when I sit (which as a nursing mother, I do a lot) I was sitting on my prehistoric tail. It wasn’t broken. All this time, doing yoga would have been helping and doing nothing was hurting. This was lesson number one for me (on this issue, in life it’s probably more like lesson number one million!). Had I continued listening only to the doctor and not my inner voice, I’d still be in pain right now. I should have listened sooner, but the good thing is that I finally did listen to it.
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Because I’d already suffered for 6 weeks and I so wanted this to be over, I did something I wouldn’t normally do: I went to a chiropractor. I had three adjustments. The first improved my condition somewhat. The second improved significantly and I should have left it at that. My gut instinct was to do exactly that and focus on using yoga to finish the relief, but instead, I let the chiropractor talk me into another adjustment and I ended up all out of whack again with a numb index finger. Another lesson for me. To keep it short, I got fixed up by a cranialsacral therapist by sheer accident while in Crestone, Colorado. I am no longer skeptical about cranialsacral therapy and between that and being back in my yoga practice I’m almost fully recovered two weeks after seeing those x-rays, but that’s another story. |
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My point with all this sharing is to help you be less hard-headed than me and to learn to listen in and trust your inner voice as it continues to evolve and refine. Normally, I don’t usually have a problem with this and just about live my entire life based on gut instincts and this has served me wonderfully, but when you get into these big issues where you have trained “experts” telling you something that goes against your gut, it gets considerably more confusing and heck, sometimes the experts are right. But yoga can not only play a role in helping you heal physically, the calmness, objectivity and heightened intuition yoga brings can help you find your way through more than a yoga class. One of my favorite phrases: Listen to the world with the ears of your heart. |
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk |
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Both Lunchhour classes are now from 12 to 1 pm downtown in the Smiley building, room 10. Tuesdays are True Beginners (also a good class for intermediates who want more focus on each individual pose) and Wednesdays are intermediate. I will be introducing some pilatees moves in the intermediate class for those who are looking for more core work. |
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Classes resume July 9th! |
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Turkey: the other, other white meat! Hope Kara is okay with the sharing, but she made Darren and I a batch of this and it was so delish I asked for the recipe and she used the words “really easy” before giving the recipe. Naturally, I have to pass it along! Benefits: Turkey is naturally low in fat without the skin, containing only 1 gram of fat per ounce of flesh. A 5-ounce serving provides almost half of the recommended daily allowance of folic acid, and is a good source of vitamins B, B1,B6, zinc and potassium. These nutrients have been found to keep blood cholesterol down, protect against birth defects, cancer and heart disease, aid in nerve function and growth, boost the immune system, regulate blood pressure, and assist in healing processes. |
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Ingredients
1 egg 1 lb. ground turkey 1 onion (yellow or white) Salt & pepper Red pepper Onion powder Garlic (powder or crushed cloves) |
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Steps
Slice up onion and toss it in a bowl with the ground turkey. Crack one egg into the bowl. Discard shell. Sprinkle in “some salt & pepper, garlic, onion powder and red pepper.” Wash hands and remove rings. Squish and mush everything together until evenly distributed then press into oven bread pan. Wash hands and replace rings. Cook at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes. Enjoy! |