Do Yoga at least sixty days (or times) in the first 10 weeks of the year!
Not easy. Not impossible given there are 70 days in the first 10 weeks and we did go 91/100 days in 2011 March-May.
Also very measurable!
Will let you know Mid march if the new year resolution was met...
2011 had its ups and downs but overall it was a year that saw things turn around for us in a good way!
2012 came and went and we can sincerely say it has been a great year! There were challenges but the good stuff made up for it!
At the end of the year one thing that stands out is the support of family and friends and the people we interact with throughout the year who make a difference to our perception of the previous 365 days.
We had my parents visit for almost six months and we had an "uneventful" visit. They got to see their grand daughters in the natural habitat and enjoy the interaction which is very different from the dazed jetlagged kids they get to see once a year for a week. The kids enjoyed the interaction as well. If we had to summarize their trip in one photo.. it would be this..
My dad constantly chiding the little one and she responding the way she does. Unforgetable moments!
We visited a lot of friends, attended birthday parties, celebrated Navarathri, Janmashtami, Halloween, 4th of July and visited places like Joshua Tree National Park and a host of theme parks in Florida during the 5 1/2 months. They attended the kids birthday party before leaving and it was Jr.'s 10th birthday and that made it all the more special!
Shortly before they left, Daddy Narayanan's company imploded and there was a job change which can only be described as a positive. All things happen for a reason and while we never understood fully how the company imploded, it was taken as a sign in this family to "move on" and "move on" we did.
One of the biggest drivers for Daddy staying at the old job was not the money or the position. It was truly the people. That said, the people in the new job are great! Going to work every morning is refreshing. There are changes when you go from a 250 people company to a 25 people company and in this case they are all good! The new job is great and brings a different type of challenge.
The travel to Austin has been replaced with travels to longer distances but so far no major sickness! Also feel like I work for Master Yoda of Air travel and he gives me the most amazing travel tips which are great! Someday, when I have tested these tips time and time again for myself (read that as "when I have enough miles to me a Travel Yoda myself), will share those tips in this space.
We wrapped up the year with a fantastic trip to Death Valley to celebrate my 40th Birthday, a lot of quality time with the extended family during the Christmas break, a lot of local trips to round up the year and a nice 60th Birthday celebration for my MIL last night!
San switched groups within IBM again and is happy with her new gig. The kids are a handful and have become more addicted to electronic devices like the PS and the iPads but we expect apple to roll out a new App to detox kids in 2013. Daddy is searching for programs that will automatically cut the wifi network in the house between certain hours or have the iPads black out automatically at set hours .. kind of a severe version of parental control...
2012 is over and we can look back and say "It was a great year for us! We took things in our stride and made the most of what was handed to us!"
Have also realized that in today's world of facebook activism, all those "social minded posts" don't make a difference. While the two places in the wolrd we love the most are fighting gun control and men control respectively in opposite sides of the globe, we are internalizing it differently and will do something.. but something that actually counts!
A big thanks to all our relatives, friends and well wishers for making 2012 the year it was!
Here's to a great 2013!
Yesterday I was trying to teach the little one Chess after she saw me playing a game with Jr.
So we tried to start with placing the pieces on the board. Before the first sentence was out of my mouth, she said "I Know daddy. I know.." and started placing the pawns in a row.. after that she was stuck.
Jr. does the same thing. She knows everything! If they do not listen to any instruction completely how will they ever learn anythign?
The google generation defintely has a challenge when it comes to developing listening skills!
Given that, seriously think that teaching Yoga to this generation will be a lot more challenging than teaching the previous one.. and that in itself is a challenge.
A yoga teacher knows what his brain is telling his body to do and how it reacts. Given every body is different slightly but has the same features, he has to take that thought and transfer it into your head so it can make your body to the exact same thing.
In geek terms, this is like taking a piece of code on a windows machine and putting it in a Mac which has almost the same processors, memory, logic etc.. and making that code do a similar thing on a different machine.
The instruction has to be very clear and specific. As in an earlier post Jim Kallet managed to pull this off for me.
Also there is a picture on the BYSJ site. Someone had taken a cell phone photo. Thank you!
Somehow my body trusted his words better than it trusted my own brain and that is interesting. Why?
Will figure it out in time!
Had signed up for six months of Unlimited visits. Today is the last day of the six month period. My attendance was not that great for the last six months. 64 classes here and 7 in Austin. That is 40% attendance. The travels continue with the new job and manage to go 4 times a week these days.
Have never been able to beat the attendance that my MIL and me had last year. We went 91 days in the first 100.
All said and done the deal with San to renew the commit was "at least 50 classes in 6 months" to keep this going. Passed that test!
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