http://blog.everythingyoga.comStephanie Ritchie's Yoga Blog60http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/23/More_on_Self_Awareness.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/23/More_on_Self_Awareness.htmlSomeone visiting my house recently asked me if I had any margarine. My nose curled up and I said, No! I do NOT have any maaaaaargarine! I have BUTTER. Don't you know I'm a food snob?"This single event had a ripple-like effect on my self awareness.My New Years resolution is to accept exactly who I am. I have a quick wit, a harsh tone, an incredible...Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:31:46 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/19/Self_Awareness.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/19/Self_Awareness.htmlIsn't it funny how defensive you can get when someone else makes critical assessment of some atribute you have (or don't have)? You know you have it, everybody who knows you knows you have it, and you go along living with it just fine until someone gets in your face and tells you what they think about it.I have very pale skin. I'd probably think...Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:49:51 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/18/Road_Trippin.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/18/Road_Trippin.htmlLike any good road trip, the EY excursion to the Yoga Journal Conference in Miami has left the crew exhausted and pumped at the same time. They rolled into the office this morning a little glassy eyed, but on task with new connections, product ideas, and follow-up lists.Me, I stayed home to pull parent duty. The thought of 11 hours in the car with...Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:15:47 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/12/Yoga_Conferences.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/12/Yoga_Conferences.htmlAs my husband and the EY team prepare to leave for the Yoga Journal Conference in Miami the stacks of boxes in the office get higher and higher. Yoga clothing, yoga figurines, yoga mats, mat bags, and incense. LOTS of incense. If you are going to this conference, PLEASE buy incense.We just bought a huge shipment of incense. Enough to fill a small...Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:09:35 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/11/My_Heart_Chakra.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/11/My_Heart_Chakra.htmlThis is an email I just sent to friend about my ER visit last night:FIVE HOURS IN THE ER just to tell me my EKG was not irregular, my electrolytes are fine, and I am not pregnant. Almost two weeks of having this heart fluttering feeling, really badly at night, then I get in front of a doctor and BAM--nothing.The whole time I was there I didn't have...Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:45:42 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/05/Worryasana.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/05/Worryasana.htmlWheeeeew. What a week. What a month. What a year!*#?@!*If there were three of me we couldn't get everything done that I need to do. Mad, isn't it? When really all we need to do is BE. Yea, yea, go tell it to a rock, you say.I have read a lot of literature having to do with the notion of simple living. Yet in no way have any of the chapters in my...Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:29:14 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/03/Not_in_the_Present_Moment.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/03/Not_in_the_Present_Moment.htmlI just can't stay in the present moment this week. I have a big show this weekend and I need to be doing three things in three different places at any given time in order to be semi-ready by Friday. Oh don't worry, I will still be doing Yoga: I will be stretching 24 hours into at least 30 on a daily basis.Is this so bad? So what--I'm distracted...Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:52:09 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/01/Rogue_Waves.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/11/01/Rogue_Waves.htmlIn the open ocean when a ship encounters a rogue wave its only chance of staying afloat is if the bow of the ship is headed directly into the wave. Even the biggest, best ships can't handle a 90 foot wave that strikes the side of the vessel.Yesterday I noticed early that my husband was in a foul mood, stressed out, handling money issues, training...Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:11:22 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/10/29/To_blog_or_not_to_blog.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/10/29/To_blog_or_not_to_blog.htmlI quit blogging here because I had no feedback on how many people were reading this. It felt sort of like talking to a wall. With my time and energy being as fractured as they are, well, I just don't have the mindset (read: faith) to trust that someone, somewhere out there is laughing her ass off, or reflecting quietly, on account of something I...Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:05:13 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/10/11/No_Yoga.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/10/11/No_Yoga.htmlIt is Murphy's Law that my public declaration of committing to a weekly yoga class (at the studio) would be accompanied by upheavals in what is already a very unstable schedule.Alas, my best yoga was done in the middle of the night when I got up to nurse my baby. Since he has been sleeping 5-7 hours at a time, even my night yoga has disappeared.I...Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:32:12 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/25/Life_is_Short.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/25/Life_is_Short.htmlLessons in how to sieze the day are not usually delivered in the form of a lesson proper. These kernals of true wisdom are typically parading around us, cloaked in Real Life, with very little tutorial ado.An old friend of mine got himself dead a few days ago. I've known him since high school. He was the kindest, smartest, most polite anarchist I've...Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:45:04 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/18/Unyogalike.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/18/Unyogalike.htmlIt is perhaps unyogalike to take pleasant satisfaction in hearing that someone who wronged you in the past has now had some sorry luck. Or is it?Isn't that really the lay understanding of the concept of karma? What comes around goes around?I'm not feeling very spiritual right now. I don't mind admitting that this particular person, and a few of her...Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:04:10 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/17/Never_Say_Never.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/17/Never_Say_Never.htmlWhen I was young I said I would never get married.I said I would never have children.I said I would never put myself in a dependent position.I've been married, twice.I have had a baby.I am a dependent.When I was pregnant I said I would not be one of those people who let their baby to "cry it out."For over 6 months now I have been getting only 3-5...Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:56:18 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/10/Looping_Intro_Music_Please.htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/10/Looping_Intro_Music_Please.htmlYou know what I'm talking about. When you put the DVD in the player but fail to press play on the feature presentation. There are maybe 8 bars of some catchy intro music that loop continuously. And it goes on, in the background, whilst you do whatever it was that kept you from pressing play in the first place. Until, all the sudden, you hear the...Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:08:18 -0500http://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/09/Best_Laid_Plans....htmlhttp://blog.everythingyoga.com/2008/09/09/Best_Laid_Plans....htmlOK, like I said, Tuesday morning, 9am. Yoga class. At the yoga studio.Yea, so I get there, bleary eyed, resentful, having just swabbed my teeth with a baby wipe from the container in the back seat, and there are noooooo cars in the parking lot.OH NO HE DI-UNT! I thought for one fleeting second that my husband tricked me on purpose, knowing full...Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:24:03 -0500