What I love in me, I am able to see in you

This is a shift of mindset. Before I started doing yoga I was very judgemental.

I was very judgemental about how I looked and how I felt and about what music I liked. I was a judgey judger. Now, I am interested in letting go of my judgemental dendancies. Because I believe in my heart of hearts that everyone is doing their best.

And how do you fill in the blank? “ I am . . . “

When I offer the meditations after the beach yoga classes all of the mantras start with I am and I love it.

These mantras helped me heal through my divorce.

It’s been on my mind a lot. Divorce. And I have to say, you never plan on getting a divorce when you get married. So really, my life has drastically changed for me personally, while the entire world continues to spin in a circle and everyone is definitely not thinking about my divorce more than me.

I think it’s all about perspective.

If one year ago me, April 2023 Virginia, could see what Virginia 2024 is doing, she would be impressed. Believe me. I am her. And my life has vastly improved over the past year even though it’s been one of the most traumatic years in my life. But I hate moving. And I moved.

I moved from a condo in Tamarindo to an apartment in Tamarindo and I love where I live.

I basically live in my dream house.

I think this is why I became a yoga teacher.

I remember thinking, “if I was a yoga teacher, I could live anywhere in the world.” And that’s what I did.

I got my YTT certificate in 2017 and then moved to Tamarindo in September 2017. I love it here. I do not want to move back to the USA in anyway.

But I loved living in Texas too. Texas is beautiful. And I loved living in Nebraska. Nebraska is beautiful. Also Iowas is beautiful and I was born in Wisconsin.

It’s the question I get asked the most: Do you like where you live?

I do. Do you?