Another Year "Older" and a new one just begun

So yeah, Christmas is over, New Years is over and in an hour my birthday will officially be over. I cannot express how incredibly thankful I am for all that I have been through this past year, 28 was awesome but I'm ready to let it go and fully live in 29.
For the last year I have been holding on for dear life as I tried to let go and figure my life out... After two people who I love tremendously moved off to follow their dreams and I sat back and watched them go, loving them, but feeling ever so green with envy that they get to follow their dreams while I'm still being patient and waiting for mine.

I have been blessed with a great group of friends who I love tremendously and will be sad to say goodbye to as I carry on with my year of 29 to great places across the world, and I can confidently say that I am ready to go, ready to travel, ready to yoga, and ready to save the world!!

I have worked my ass off, finishing a 200 hour yoga teacher training, having a great boyfriend, great friends and then letting them go to pursue their dreams and for me to pursue 300 more hours of yoga study... damn its been a ride!
After buying my plane ticket to Fiji for 3 months on New Years Day, I started a new year literally and figuratively. I am launching myself out into the world to follow MY dreams. I wouldn't be here without the unknown help of a few people who have given me the courage to step out of my comfort zone, and know that they will be on the other side of it.

My life has felt like I've had a bucket full of water on my shoulders and I just poked a hole in it that washed fear and anxiety away. Water is a powerful mover of energy and can be refreshing and flow moving but when held captive can become stagnant and boring. I just let all of mine go and it does taste of great refreshment!
Amazing how when you let go, you take a step into an unknown world and you know you are on the right track, the universe provides what you need. I had always heard that but never trusted it, I'm capricorn, I plan. But with that step into the blue stagnant waters, there is a ripple and within that ripple the universe can release its power and support you at the same time.

Let your inhibitions go, run, play, jump up and down, scream, cry whatever it takes.... poke the hole in that bucket of water sitting on your shoulders and trust that the water that comes out will fill your heart and wash away your worries.

What will 29 hold? Yoga and service in Fiji-yoga with kids in schools, debris cleanup in the ocean and hopefully raising money to certify someone to dive and continue with the ocean cleanups. Hopes to teach people yoga, maybe even teach them to be teachers.
Belize, June 2012, we will discover the blocks in that bucket of water, let them go and learn how to keep the channels clean and the prana running smoothly through ourselves. Then transmitting that energy into those in our life or that we may just encounter walking down the street. What seeds do you plant for yourself and thus into others?

The year of 29 will be a year of extended growth, finding my soul families across the earth, creating a great place for each of us to live.

I am beyond grateful and cannot wait to see this year unfold.

A little song, you may have heard it before, that always keeps me asking questions.

Campaign for Yoga and Seva (service) in Fiji

Cheers to Another Year Older!!

Kristen

www.k10yoga.com

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A Golf What???

"Lets plan a fun golf tournament to promote my new business and donate the moneyto those who need it..."

"Okay, what should we call it?"

(crickets...)

Google... Wiki...

A Junket can refer to:
an excursion for the purpose of pleasure at public or company expense

PERFECT!! The Golf Junket

Thats how it all started one evening at our regular Sunday Funday dinner table.

We pulled ideas together and came up with The 1st Annual Tailwind Aviation Golf Junket! Splitting proceeds with Kristen's Seva Challenge Haiti Fundraiser, building sustainable communities in Haiti, and with SUDS (Soldiers Undertaking Disabled Scuba).

Kevin, my co-collaborator and owner of Tailwind Aviation and funder of the Golf Junket is also a diver and has a heart filled with gold. I've taught hot yoga classes in his livingroom in the middle of the winter to him and the dive boys, and then they would make dinner. Not a bad trade!

So this Golf Junket, was just that a Junket. A way to get friends and family together for a good cause. After all was said and done we were able to split about $1000 between Seva Challenge and SUDS.

We really wanted to make this a fun tournament, so for prizes we had a variety of "junk"et things! For instance the 1st place trophies were actually plungers that we painted pretty colors and fun designs on! (They also came with a $25 gift certificate to Floyds 1921 Restaurant)

For those who came in last place, no worries you get a prize too... A bag of army men (and a $25 gift certificate to Island Grill)

Bottomline, we had a great tournament, raised fantastic funds for two great organizations and we had fun along the way! Look for the 2nd Annual Tailwind Aviation Golf Junket coming in 2012!!

Sincerely,

The Junket Heads- Kristen and Kevin

Woah Opportunity

After teaching water aerobics and talking to one of my students about what in the world I'm going to do with my life because nothing seems to be dropping into my lap... ohh whoops, I said it, I challenged the universe and within 4 hours I had a friend send me a link to a yoga instructor job that didn't even fit in with the forum she was searching. Sent my resume and within 12 hours basically have an offer on the table for me to name my salary and they will pay for all accommodations, food, paid vacation time, insurance etc if I commit to 2 years in an exotic and remote location in the middle of the Arabian Sea, 2 hours from the closest town and thats taking a speedboat and a puddle jumper plane.
Woah universe, I wassn't expecting you to throw that one in my direction. Sounds fantastic, now the logistics. My instincts tell me that if they will narrow down to a year then I'll probably do it. What an amazing opportunity, not to mention the place is absolutely beautiful, one of those places you see on postcards and wonder if it really exists in real life. To have someone say that your credentials are very impressive is weird when its coming from a complete stranger half way across the world, good to know that all my hard work over the past 10 years is paying off.

Wondering what the future holds...