The OmCup
This beautiful cup is 24oz single walled.
Screw on secure lid,plastic reusable straw, rubber wave grip.
The beautiful peaceful design infuses
you and your beverage with the peaceful vibration of Om.
$12. plus shipping
(email if you want one. i will ship friday and tuesday)
yogadarla@gmail.com
PARTY!
august 6, 2011 is white linen night in the heights. a wonderful street party though out the historic houston heights. highlighting art, music, fashion and FUN!
everyone knows white linen is perfect for managing sweaty-ness!
We LOVE the sweat…so darla’s yoga garden is participating in a big way with a party!
the WHITE LINEN NIGHT PRE PARTY! is a swanky party at the yoga garden for current and former students!
local fancy french chef jeremy massudi is doing the food-and laura deegan at a la carte catering is planning the beauty. i am of course shopping for fun and FABULOUS SWAG! come join us for a few fun hours of food, drink and friends BEFORE the big event on 19th street. bring your friends to the garden to meet me and sign up for a chance to win a free month of classes when you buy a month of classes that day!!
***you need to be “on the list” if you are a previous student- email me yogadarla@gmail.com for an invite***
if you can’t make the pre-party we will have A BOOTH at the arts market!
beautiful yoga people will be at the booth answering questions, smiling and helping you enter to win free yoga, mat give aways and giving you the HIPPEST festival SWAG in town!!!
Put on your “coolest” white linen and come party with us… just how we like it…
SWEATY STYLE!
Love Guerrilla
"I love you _______."
I have been “secretly” “sending metta” to someone who really hates me.
I will not describe the entirety of this mish-mash ritual I adopted for this practice. But, I will tell you everyday, 7 times a day, I stop and on purpose think of this person. I say their name (to myself), imagine their face and send them love and compassion. They’re sending me hate and I am sending back love. Why? Because it feels good- and their shit feels bad.
I LOVE you my enemy. I adore you my gossips, my doubters, my detractors, and “haters”.
LOOK OUT! I am sending you sweetness deep from my soul.
Maybe my love will make you feel better about you too… one day we will share a banana.
yeah, it’s probably about you.
Dear Houston Yoga Teacher(s):
I know what you said about me to a student who loved my class. She excitedly mentioned me to you. Your name and exactly what you said got right back to me in just two days. I know your intention was to poison her opinion of me, her experience of my class and poison anyone else’s opinion she might talk to, about me.
You can call me a bitch, that may be true (for you) (and you and you…). 😉
But stop calling me a thief – because that is a lie.
Why don’t you call me and get the truth?
Because it’s easier for you to try to profit off of someone else’s 6-year-old misfortune than to rise up and be a better yoga teacher. It’s easier to just dog someone else to feel better about yourself, isn’t it? Poor thing.
You may dog me all you wish. But that will not make your lies true. Move on.
Oh… and mind your own fucking business.
Hump Day
Maybe it’s the new moon, maybe it’s the lovely weather, maybe it’s HUMP de BUMP day- but today feels GOOD!
As a matter of fact- it feels THIS good! Funky, Blusey, Flea-rocking-it-out, good!
Are you “strollin’ down Love Street?”
Are you “on the list?”
have a GREAT hump de bump day!
p.s. I love you Anthony Kedis
lentils & glitter
What a wonderful idea!
I adore this new blog. It’s all about love and spreading love and positivity all around. I intend to bookmark and visit this site often and pick up a little sweetness… maybe leave a little kindness for others. Go check it out… share some love!
Willin’
Nancy Alder style postin’ today my friends.
(with a seriously southern drawl)
This is a nice little Little Feat song that speaks to me. It’s beautiful. The lyrics are lovely, really. Even if you have a distaste for the references to drugs, human trafficking, smuggling “smokes”, driving drunk and poor grooming it’s still quite beautiful.
Now, My Daddy was a truck driver- and I met him twice in my life. But he’s in me- If this truck-drivin’ song is accurate then my friends you can sit down in your Utkatasana and pass the wine because for some reason unknown to me I am still willin’. Teaching yoga and owning yoga studios has been like being “kicked by the wind”- don’t you think for a minute it hasn’t been.
Oh, Dear Ones it has fed me. It still feeds me. But teaching yoga is HARD. (Prancing around a room and talking to your hear yourself talk is as easy as it looks.) Getting in there and really teaching people where they are… that takes commitment, harnessing spirit and the direction of energy. It also takes independent study, a self-practice, deep thought, meditation and time to reload, release and restore. When there are issues, political, physical or just “life” going forward it takes even more from you.
Transformation is in the midst and I am streamlining my life. So,things are moving and shaking!
I am reworking the studio schedule finding where the energy pools… I am actually taking 2 whole days “off” a week! (does a yogadork ever get a day off??). This yoga thing needs to work for me as well for as y’all. So as long as you “show me a sign” you are still willin’, then so am I friends. So am I.
Another Sign from the Universe
I have seen them- I have seen all the subtle and not-so-subtle signs you have placed. But you are NOT my guide.
The sweet force of the Universe IS. And this is the sign I heed.
And I am so in awe of the grace of love! This beautiful message presented it’s self during last night’s ghee marathon. I took many pictures during the process, this one was my favorite. I will post a lovely blog about making ghee before the next full moon(primo ghee making time).
Until then I keep reading the signs but only follow the ones that move me… toward love.
Starting a Hot Yoga Practice
You already know I loves me some hot yoga- this morning there is a wonderful post that will be helpful for you if you are considering a hot yoga practice. Fabulous Canadian yogini, @charmedchubey tweeted a link to her experience in the heat. Guess what? All the reasons you are worried about hot yoga are normal… and totally no biggie!
Go check out this:
Monday- Thank GAWD!
It was a crazy roller coaster weekend. But that’s okay, I rode those waves of life as a human being with wild abandon. Yeah, it was tough. But that too is okay- I have the yoga to keep me centered and I have my truth to keep the self- doubt at bay. The BIG peace-keeper for me is TEACHING. Yeah, my own practice wrings the stress right out of me, but serving others, helping them accomplish a posture, or just guiding them through the asanas holds a special “magic.” This weekend was all magic.
Today, Monday was SUPER magical. A room full of loving yogis made my day. I could see them rallying, I could feel their love and appreciation for what we were doing and they brought it! Thank you Darling Yogis, thanks for making tonight so healing for ME. Oh yeah, I know it’s all about you, you better believe I do… but tonight- I felt your love. I was just what I needed!
And I love you back… with all my sweaty heart!
darla cooks 