Mahalo Love
Hello again! I know it has been a long time since my last blog. I thought that I would be able to blog from ATTC but I thought wrong! It was a wonderful life changing course and I loved it. But, it was very demanding and intense and left little time for anything else besides yoga studies.
Now, my family and I are in Hawaii. I will have plenty of time to blog while we spend the next two months here on the beautiful island of Oahu. We have been here for one adventurous week now and each day so far has been amazing.
Mahalo means thank you here in Hawaii. We hear it all the time at stores and restaurants, it's pretty cool. Same as we hear it and say it all time on the mainland. The thing about mahalo or thank you is that sometimes we say it out of habit or the people that we are saying it to deserve a whole lot more than simple words to express that gratitude .
The reason that I have been thinking about this right now is because of the past few months of my life. Well, actually the past 10 years, but like I said sometimes the words thank you just don't seem like enough.
From previous posts you know a little bit about my husband, best friend, and partner in this life, Christopher. As I blog or share things about my life I always know that if it were not for him none of these things would even be a possibility. When we met I was a single parent with two young children. When we started our relationship one of the first things I told him was that if this were to go any further he would always be second to my children and I would expect him to love them as I did. He said okay, and he did.
He showed that to me as we went through the fight for Airica's life. I saw how much he truly loved my children, especially when times were tough. He held my hand, my heart, and my whole body as I went through the toughest thing that I would have to bear in this life. He loved me when I felt like I had no love to give, he reminded me that I had a reason to live, he was understanding and patient as I grieved, all the while he was grieving too.
This generous soul loves and cares for me so much that even though I am the recipient, sometimes it seems unbelievable. He supports me in anything and everything that I do. When I say support I mean 100% selflessly. The most recent being my yoga journey. He sent me to TTC in October 2010. By sent I mean, he told me to quit my job, paid for the course, and took care of Alyssa while I was gone for the entire month. Then when I returned insisted that I focused on teaching yoga no matter what that took even if I taught for free.
That is exactly what I did for the year and half between TTC and ATTC. I didn't teach all my classes for free, but people don't teach yoga to pay the bills :) That is all that I did, teach yoga and practice yoga.
June 2012, he sent me to ATTC another month of me being gone. To deepen my yoga practice, learn more about the yogic path, and my Self. Each day that I was at ATTC I was grateful to my wonderful husband. It was because of him that I was there. How could I possibly ever express to him how grateful I truly am? Thank you is not enough!
Now, we are in Hawaii. We are here for two months. The first two weeks of which he is on vacation. The longest vacation that he has ever taken without having to work, which he deserves so much because he works so hard to take care of his family. When those two weeks are over he will work from here as he enjoys knowing that Alyssa and I are having lots of fun during our time here in Hawaii.
The more that I learned about the teachings of yoga the more I began to understand why he does what he does. Christopher may not teach asana, he may not know the definition of words in Sanskrit, but he is a yogi. He is doing what we're all here on this earth to do...he is looking for happiness.
"Forget your selfishness, make others happy, and you will be the happiest person. By seeing others happy, you cannot be unhappy."
Sri Swami Satchidananda
Mahalo love for being you and sharing your beautiful life with me.
