Yesterday in India was the holiday where you honor your brothers and sisters; where you give thanks (in the form of a string bracelet) to those who have been there for you and protected you. I called Jorge my one brother and thanked him for being there for me. I also spent the day thinking about those friends of mine who in these last four years of my certification process have been there for me, no matter what. These friends who would literally cry with me (Marc, Hagar), listen to me (Jessica, Lucy), give me great advice (Tara, Tanya), help me with their humor (Jenny, Tony), hug me (Scott), hold me with their wisdow (Joy) and never ever ever give up on me (Tiffany). I thought of them in particular. I thought of how we are bound to so many people, whether we give them a string or not, we simply remember them, how fortunate we are to be so loved.

I've been teaching using the theme of gratitude and have been doing tons of bound poses.

Thinking and talking about what binds you to someone? What binds you to a goal?

Thinking about how if someone would have told me that my certification process would take four years I think that I still would have gone for it.

In fact -to be honest- I didn't ever think that I would get certified. 

But I kept trying. 

No matter what.

If I was going to fail and fall, I was going to fall reaching for it.

Because the process, however long, mysterious and challenging as it was, was aligning me to the best part of myself.