COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

Recently, Boston , my son, left his bag in the backseat of his friend’s car. The bag contained some most important items, his phone and ipad charger. When my husband called him the night he left the chargers, I am told that Boston did not even say hi when he answered the phone. No. The most important thing he needed to say upon answering the phone was, “Dad, my phone’s on 1 percent!” He texted me with the same message along with a desperate, “Call me!” There are several things that are really keen about this situation. Would you agree? I mean, when did it matter so much to be in constant contact with everyone? When you went to your friend’s house as a kid, that was it. You were at your friend’s house and if your parents wanted to reach you, they’d call that house. And, if you’re old enough, you remember when the phone at your friend’s house did not need to be charged. Times have changed. From analog to digital, our interactions and connections have become brand new. And we rely o

 I love spring. It is one of those times of year where everywhere you look is hopeful. The trees are budding, wildlife is multiplying, people and animals, stretching their arms and legs and waking from their winter set. There is this feeling of everything being light, and the time change helps everything stay light longer during our daily, waking hours. So that helps. But spring, even without considering daylight savings time as part of the equation, is a pleasant passageway to a simple, light truth. There are a lot of things to learn from each season. In spring, when the air feels cleaner and light, when love feels nearer and hopeful, like all you see around you, that is the time to begin moving. One would think that fall would be the time; however, fall would be the last of the movement and scurry, the tail end, the last drop. Winter is sitting, subtle movement, and summer is surrender and passion, movement in the thick, which can be fast or slow depending on the day and what ha

Click here to register! There is always something to experience, some new whisper of a thing or interaction in the now to keep us going. Our calenders can get full all too quickly at times, and then there is this something inside life that sparkles and dims at times, too, on top of it all. We enjoy or cry with this, if we choose, and we wonder, possibly, as it unfolds, how to work it all out. It can be a true stretch to make sense of it all.  But, it really is all good, and that is more than enough to know. By golly, we could experience the full range of emotion, sometimes in moments :). Let us focus though on emotional health and emotional heart smarts instead. I am not just referring to the heart beating in your body, but the one that surrenders and creates consciously that which we hope to see. To fully experience life, we must take the time to seek ourselves more fully.This will breed emotional heath, make your intentions clearer and your heart smart; it will connect knowle

Each quality acts in its own turn at different times. All the three qualities cannot operate at one and the same time. When one quality asserts itself or predominates by overpowering or suppressing the other two, it produces its own effect.   Sattva   produces knowledge and happiness;   Rajas   action;   Tamas   veiling of knowledge, inertia, error, indolence, sloth and sleep. When Sattva is in the ascendant in a man, he is endowed with discrimination. Sublime thoughts roll in his mind. He has pure understanding. His mind turns away from sensual pleasures and moves inward towards the Self.”                                     - Bhagavad Gita (14.10), Swami Sivananda We are constantly teetering between having balance and seeking balance. It is true, as soon as we acknowledge having, ego gets involved, and balance is minimized. As soon as we think we are meditating, we are not. As soon as we draw our attention outward, we are no longer balanced within.  Ayurveda, a 5,000-yea

Recently I spoke about the veils in my blog “Circumcision of the Heart.” These, in brief, are the layers of our experience in the body, which is not who we really are. However, these veils still exist as we identify with the ego, the stories we tell ourselves in order to be apart of the collective experience. Having a practice to acknowledge these veils allows them to drop, like shackles or skin follicle. Underneath them, like the skin, there is another layer, something new to discover.  Recently after a veil unfolding, I peeked inside of some historic guilt that lingered. I thought for sure that I was at the bottom of this feeling. I'd been guilty for quite some time off and on. And then I realized, just when I was getting ready to congradulate myself, like " Alice and Wonderland," there was no real bottom.  I also realized that there was  no rush and there was no getting it all done. There is, however, an opportunity for us to continue to create space in thi

You just finished the movement portion of your, asana, practice. It was a good one. You got sweating, maybe? You got out of your head for a little bit and took the time to breathe deeper or motivate the body. You lay in savasana, corpse pose, and think, I would have loved two more poses or another hour. Well, you can have it, two more poses or another hour. You really can. You might be busy. You might, quite literally, have just jumped right up off your mat right now to get back to your children or mate or work that is waiting at home. But you can have yoga anywhere. The great thing about yoga is that it does not have to be super lengthy to be effective. I know, it is nice to stay in the mellow space of a class, if you can. It's nice to have your teacher nearby. However, if you can’t stay, then go forward. Come back to your practice throughout the day. Check in periodically. One does not need to stay in one place to fill the container or to access it. All of your p

Bliss, I never understood this word. I always found it to be one of those words people pretend to be. I was pretty sure when someone said they felt bliss that they had no idea what they were talking about. Or when someone said that they wanted to feel bliss, they did not know what they were reaching for. I suppose I never felt bliss until recently, or at the very least, not to the extent with which I now know. It was not even a word that I uttered to reference any situation ever before, except when I did a Blissful Biz Training with my coach, Jeannie Sullivan. And there is absolutely a reason why. Until one has seen some aspect of the low, there is no way for them to have reference for the high. The height of even the tip of bliss is beyond that which I believed I could hold. magicblog.andriehvitimus.com I venture to say that whether we know it or not, everyone has experienced, even briefly, some form of love. We are love.  So what is the difference between bliss and love,