It is my great grand good fortune to participate in a yoga class that nourishes me week after week, a class I bumped into in the unlikeliest of ways.
That story: had a mammogram a few years back. Results not definitive. Had to have a repeat done at a different facility. Met afterwards with ‘my’ radiologist, the mother of children whom I’d tutored years ago who nows does a second read of any radiography I need done. The gifts of the mammogram callback were several: (1) radiology showed no lesions; (2) my radiologist friend and I grabbed the chance to catch up on personal news; and (3) she asked me if I knew of a good local yoga class, which I did not, but I offered to poke around.
What I found: a class that meets at my local senior center (wait, I’m a senior?!), is reasonably priced, is just minutes from my home, and has an instructor who is Kriplu trained, great at leading classes responsive to the expressed needs in any given session, and gifted at creating community. Total win!
To express appreciation at year’s end, we class members gave her a gift certificate to use at a local bookstore, and I volunteered—no surprise here—to handpaint a bookmark to accompany the gift certificate.
Hands to heart center,
in bodies our spirits move
as one. Namaste.
1.5 x 5.5″; acrylic and collage on card stock
bookmark
2024
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