Who am I?

A word of caution:  This post is going to be longer than usual.  Please indulge me this one time, and for this I ask your pardon!  I promise you it will be big, really BIG.  I know a thing or two about BIG!  Just look at my hands…

Who am I?

Who is The Every Day Yogi?

Let me begin with who I am not!

I am not a qualified yoga or meditation instructor.  I have never been trained.

I am an ordinary guy (or gal, or whatever!) just like you (well, at least kind of, sort of like you!).

The only difference maybe is I LOVE yoga and meditation.  And I have practiced a lot!

I’ve been hooked for 40 years!

The practices have been good to me.

In this cynical, struggling, often unhappy world, I still have optimism and hope and yes, love, and at least a satisfying happiness that is certainly much more than any Happy Meal (but maybe not The Happiest Place on Earth!).

This blog is my attempt to share a bit of yoga and meditation along with some daily insights.

But, really you and I both are The Every Day Yogi!

Every moment is a yoga or meditation moment.

We are all trying in our imperfect ways to do our best, to live from our heart, to bring love and compassion to ourselves and others, and to try to somehow possibly make this big and complicated world a little better place….

To strike a pose, if you will, to do and bring our best!

And though, just like in a yoga pose, we may struggle some, come up against resistance as we try to stretch and breathe into it, and we may at times even topple… unlike Humpty Dumpty, we won’t break to pieces.  Thankfully, we are not so fragile.

We will get up, possibly a bit shaken and probably humbled, hopefully having learned something, ready to strike our next pose.