Video August 15, 2013 by 1barefootgirl

Sharath Jois in Copenhagen…

Lovely vid of Sharath in Copenhagen. Wish I were there…

vid by Alessandro Sigismondi.

1barefootgirl

I am diving back into writing my blog. I have refocused my life from being a full time yoga/meditation teacher and therapist to a full time screenwriter. I know!! But it'll all make sense once you get to know me. :) I have been writing for a long time - like every writer that I know - I've always been writing ever since I could (talk) hold a pen. But life conspired to make me believe in the voices that said, "I wasn't good enough", "writing isn't a job", "it doesn't even have a pension!" I wanted to write like Beckett and Pinter, GB Shaw and Stoppard, Camus and Kafka. I wanted to be the first female absurdist writer. Mimicking the works of Beckett and Stoppard, but in a Shaw-ian kind of way. That would have to wait. I'm like a cat. I have had a few lives. I've been an architect, graduating and working in the field. After a few years, I decided to take my passion for architecture and translate that into sculpture and art. And writing. I did some writing! But there was no momentum! I made some money writing. So I went back to design. Then I went to get my Therapist skills because I'm fascinated by what makes us tick. I had been practicing and studying yoga throughout my university years and then doing it as any practitioner would - finding teachers I like, studios that had my style (after being introduced to Ashtanga I didn't look back) - became a teacher, did an enormous amount of training and teaching. And finally, in 2007, opened my first studio! That was an experience that even deepened my practice more and I taught a teacher training. However, it didn't last. I burnt out and where I had the studio wasn't conducive to the kind of yoga I was teaching. I continued with teaching private lessons and had therapy clients. Then my second studio turned more into a performance space than a yoga studio. I had already started writing screenplays at this time. I dove right in! I invited people to perform, do seminars and I even had partners to start launching our own productions in the space. But I chose the wrong people to partner with and it ended with me closing the studio and abandoning that kind of entrepreneurialship. I wasn't cut out for it... It exhausted me. Competing with every other space downtown. I'm not sure how many I have left - but it'll be the expanding of my writing - because finally after all my experiences, I am finally writing! The writing gods have descended upon me and said, now! Now you can write! The early posts on this blog are from when I was a full time yoga teacher, and wanted to share my experiences. It is my intention to continue to share with you my ongoing commitment to my spiritual practice; share some of the insight I have gained through the years. I will be sharing my experiences with writing, and setting my sights on making it as a writer. Fingers crossed. Here we go! Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy! Peace! CK

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