I've been feeling very, very guilty lately.  There's been several people asking me, or Amy, "When is the next doga class?"  However, because we hold our doga practice outdoors, and because it's summer, and because it's hot, and because I'm very full of Peanut right now... I've decided to put the doga practice on hold until later.  Maybe November - after Peanut arrives and after it cools down.
Also, there's been SO much growth and expansion in general at All One Yoga.  Cafe Organic has really taken off.  The Yoga Mama workshops were well attended, and there's been a lot of women asking about prenatal yoga.  New classes are starting up.  I sooo want to become a bigger part of this new opportunity, but right now I'm just plain bigger.  Amy says not to worry, there will be plenty of opportunity for new ventures in the coming months.  I just can't help but feeling I'm missing out and letting people down.

SO instead I'm doing what I can. 

I just picked up another foster dog a few days ago - ironically on National Dog Day (who knew?).  Her name is Cady, and my best guess is she's a pointer / hound / boston terrier mix.  Cady is about 8 months old.  Found as a stray, she was a "failed foster" through Walton County Animal Shelter.  But only 3 months after she went into foster care, the foster/ adopter had to move in with family and couldn't take her.  The adopter didn't want to send her back to the shelter, so she reached out to several rescue groups via Facebook.  I am now fostering Cady, and she is available for adoption with SAINTS animal rescue, founded by my buddy Jos

I want to get some updated, good pics of Cady.  Unfortunately, my camera was stolen out of my car a few weekends ago... I'm hoping to squeeze enough blood out of turnips to afford a new camera.  After all, I'll need to get pics of Peanut soon too!

I'm reviving the Full Bellies & Full Hearts special too!  Just bring canned cat / kitten / dog / puppy food to All One Yoga for my Saturday morning class, and drop in for just $5.  Every Saturday in September.
Feel good & feel good.  Win-win.

I've been thinking in geometry.

I've been feeling rather round these days.  I'm circling back, starting over, in the baby department.

It struck me recently during a yoga practice.  In my day job, my thinking and planning is very linear.  Square boxes, straight lines.  But in yoga, even as we are creating openness our energy moves in circles and spirals.  Very, very few things in the natural world are straight.

School starts next week.  Even though it's "starting over," Cade, and so many other young minds, is starting fresh in a new grade.  Learning new things.  More like a spiral staircase than a flat circle. 

Such will be our lives with Peanut too.  And our recently re-homed foster Cookie Dough.  Starting over, yet starting fresh.  Hopefully as these weeks wind down to welcoming our newest addition, and as we re-acquire all those things we thought we didn't need anymore, I can stay fresh too.

My yoga class was inspired by some out of the ordinary sources today.  In a nutshell, we explored how our faults, our imperfections, our idiosynchracies and insanities are often the keys to our truest strengths.  Would Van Gough have painted the same if he were "normal?"

On that thread, the so-called designer dog, or hybrid, trends bother me.  Once upon a time these were called "mutts" or "mixed breeds."  Now we have labradoodles, chiweenies, and more.  What was once deemed faulty is now high fashion.

Our current foster dog is a designer dog - a shinese.  She is a pekingese- shih tzu mix, or at least that's our best guess.  Cade named her Cookie Dough.  She is availeble through SAINTS rescue.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/SAINTS-Animal-Rescue/167247326674529?sk=info

UPDATE:
Good News!!  Cookie Dough has been adopted by my good friend Brenda and her family!  Happy tails