by Carmen Champion | Apr 3, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
In reflection after a weekend away with my husband, we were talking about what we love to do when we travel or go places and I surmised that we go for an authentic experience. I struggle with places that are too stark and crave places that have color or character. As...
by Carmen Champion | Mar 27, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
I read something recently that said something along the lines of, ‘the obstacles are part of the journey. There will always be obstacles in the path. The practice is navigating around them.” Everything wants to get in your way-no matter the goal. But the exercise of...
by Carmen Champion | Mar 20, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
As we go through the practice, alone on the mat. Sometimes finding our minds quiet, sometimes not. The practice asks us to observe, but it doesn’t tell us what to examine exactly. Your teacher offers you things to consider and its up to you to assign what that idea...
by Carmen Champion | Mar 13, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
In late Middle English the word create was derived from the idea that something was ‘born out of nothing.’ And idea, a story, art. Even our postures came from spontaneous movement from deep meditation. The build of prana (energy) in the body caused it to begin to move...
by Carmen Champion | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
The right combinations of words unlock awareness inside of ourselves. We find places we’ve never had access to or maybe learn something new we didn’t fully understand before. By using words and language we get to create all these new associations to better grow into...
