Sending love to all

Hola, and Happy New Years beautiful yoga family!

It's Dena here! I just signed up! AWESOME Jenny! Thank you so much girl for this blog. It gave me so much joy to read all that each of you shared since the return to the real world. I would like to figure out how to post pictures through the new posts? Jennie, do I have to email them to you separately? Let me know what your email addy is again, so I can email some surf shots of Cane Garden Bay where I live.

Lisa, how is your back. I have thought of you and seen your beautiful face in my mind so many times, i truly feel your presence, soul sister.. eileen, erin, get out of that cold, and into the tropics, there is loads of resort work, just google yoga spas in the carribean, you'll dial work if that is your destiny:) John, thanks soo much for the video! I LOVED it! What a beautiful radiant reminder of the essence of self we each discovered in Nosara. Lindsay, kick ass trip to Korea girl, thanks for sharing, Johnny, and Brent, how is your studio going? Your intention for this community is so beautiful. You are both such stars!

I'm havinig an interesting experience in the New Year. I've been working at Peter Island Resort(www.peterisland.com) as a massage therapist. It was lucritive and going well, as a subcontractor, allowing me much time to teach and practice yoga, surf and play. It afforded me to come to Costa Rica and take the course. Since my return, the holidays went off really well, and good flow island hopping and I even massaged Harrison Ford in Virgin Gorda twice. He had a bad ear infection, and after all of my earssues, I thought, "Poor Has Solo had to swim in poop again"!! Interesting. Harrison Ford rocks by the way, talk about charismatic prana.. whoosh!

The interesting part is that my work at Peter Island dried up due to another girl offering her services for 25% less than I do. I know my worth and cannot work for pennies, and would not work out commissionwise with my trade licence holder to do so, So I am praying and meditating to see now where this interesting change in events is leading now that my income does not meet the expensive living costs of a small offshore island. Does anyone know where to look for yoga jobs? Though I teach yoga three classes a week here (1 relaxation class, which is self awakening yoga, and two vinyasa flows), 1 core fusion(pilates yoga combo class), and 1 vinyasa class), it is barely paying the bills, though last monday I had 13 students!!! Woo Hoo!!!! I'm advertising, and trying to make of go of it here before throwing in the towel however.. I am thinking about offerening packages through the space I teach by going in with a few companies, offering the combination of scuba diving/sailing and yoga to the hotel guests at Nanny Cay where I work.. they're not retreats, but activity packages the hotel will be marketing, and Iwill be paid a certain percentage of the package. I will be teaching sunset and sunrise yoga classes to the people, and open the class to my regular students.. I am meditating and visualizing success every day, and so hum to keep the prana flowing and fear out of this equation. A part of me wants to run away, runfrom the sitaution, sometimes fear of failure comes up and my mother's words,

My yoga/surfinig/meditation practice holds me together now, as though I have all these creative ideas of how to solve my situation arise, A part of me feels achorless and directionless without a solid base income.. I am remembering Amba's words at this time, "It's rough in the beginning"... when we were speaking about sustaining yourself as a yoga teacher... but you don't give up on what you love", I remember her saying. I so resignated with her discourse on the element of passion. Passion is a powerful force.. I am going to teach a vinyasa full moon yoga class this week with all the love and passion my heart can muster. In my heart, i just know that if I stick with it, it's going to be great. It is so beautiful to share your practice with others. I will send my love and wishes for each of your success in the new year,
Love Dena