Month: October 2018

Happy Halloween! and the end of Oct…

Ohhh wow… so, how was your month of October?

For me, it was a very organic month… It really felt like it allowed me to go with the flow… I started teaching more yoga organically, reconnected with friends organically, traveled organically, decluttered my place and rearranged my furniture organically… lol

Organically means I did not plan to… I was just ready to…

I was asked to teach more yoga classes… I was not looking to… but I wanted to… so I just said YES when I was asked. I subbed a few classes too, so taught in a hot room, regular room, in an office, and even in a gym! It is challenging but so much fun to put myself out there with what I love… a bit like designing products… lol. and, I got more phone calls and text messages from random friends, and just embracing those opportunities I was surrounded by good friends, including my college friends that I have not seen for many years!!…  I also visited some of my friends’ places that is located a few hours away from my place, and it felt like vacations! You see my picture? That is me on a farm in NJ with my friends’ dog Rosie! it was so relaxing and so nice to be in touch with the nature and the (halloween) season…  and oh wow… I am not sure if I am happy about this, but I rearranged my furniture because I got mice in my apartment while I was away for a few days!! Boohoo… I was looking for the holes on the wall and I moved and rearranged some furnitures now… it looks actually much better than before though…!! and since … mice had a party in my place, I throw away some items otherwise I would have still clinging on to… and this was something I wanted to do for a long time… lol.

As for creative activities as a designer, this too unfolded organically… I could not do a lot of things I planned to such as opening my Etsy store (lol, coming soon) and move forward to more design works… (lol coming soon too) but I got a new SSD and Hard drives for my MacBook! My friend who is super talented at apple products helped me to upgrade my vintage 2012 MacBook with Max Memory and high speed performance!! Whoa!!! So now I have no choice but to perform my best as I cannot blame my “vintage” MacBook for slowness anymore… lol 

Sometimes embracing the NOW is not easy… because I am not certain and could always have the sense of being out of control… but we have to trust intuition more… because at the end.. it all works out organically and sometimes even more perfectly than perfectly planned plans…

So cheers to the organic month… Looking forward to what November will bring to us…

Rika

Wow! Time flies! and it is already October and another new moon…(yesterday)…

It is a good time to set and renew our intentions for this cycle… It may sound silly but it helps me to keep myself being guided. 

Around the last full moon, I got a new offer to teach a weekly class at a yoga studio… I setted an intention to teach more yoga classes on that cycle… and voila, it fulfilled… Now it is time to set a new intention… what could it be…?

Teaching yoga in NYC is really interesting… Sometimes I am mesmerized by the contrast of the super busy life styles of New Yorkers and the super dedicated yoga practice of theirs… and we have so many great yogis in this urban environment…

I really enjoy both sides of life, New York and Yoga… and that inspired me to create this new “Namaste collection… “

It was a therapeutic design approach coming from my fun spirit and I enjoyed building the collection… I was already so satisfied to just see the products in my online store… but awww I am so thankful that some people actually bought the items!! This makes me feel I am connected to them. 

So have you had a chance to look at my “Namaste collection” ?It is now available in my store…

In the collection, I have a new favorite tee called “Namastee” lol.

It is a Tee shirt saying Namastee on the chest and why it says so… teehee. I wanted to make this design when I needed to run from a yoga class in Brooklyn I had just taught and needed to run to teach another yoga class in Queens… My hands were busy getting the paperworks, my mat, my bags, my water, and then as I was leaving I was saying good byes and namastes to the clients… just without the hand gesture… omg isn’t that important? Oh well… what can I do? I am a busy urban yogi… lol. but I do care!! A LOT!! so the Namastee was born.

Let’s see if this tee shirt will bring me more peace for the next class… lol

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As always B•hū•UR!

Until next blog! Namaste(e) ❤