Aren’t we all? Isn’t it beautiful? YIOM will also be expanding soon. We’ll be adding an ongoing yoga blog network to the month-long project. It will have a home base on it’s very own 
site (eventually) at http://www.yiomsite.com/ That probably won’t happen until I finish YTT next Saturday, but hopefully it won’t be too long after that and we’ll have it up and rolling by the early part of may. Stay tuned to this site and the new page for information on how to join!
Namaste!
L
YIOM started as a one month long celebration of yoga blogging, in the spirit of NaNoWriMo or VeganMoFo. However, it’s now the 20th of the month and blogs are still joining. This makes me wonder if there is a need or desire for a yoga network of sorts. It would basically be an index of member yoga blogs, with twitter names, RSS feed links, blurbs, etc. that then could be used by anyone looking for a blog and would also help yoga bloggers to find one another and facilitate community posting and exchange of ideas. Wonderful communal blogs like YogaDork or large-scale yoga information sites like Elephant Journal are similar in some ways, and this would not be intended to replace or supplant those. It would simply be a network of blogs, connected through the directory and use of the logo, and with the intent to enhance connection. I’m thinking I could start it as a page on this site and then eventually shift it over to its own. So, YIOM members or fans, what do you think?
Image by CrystalGinger
We would want to reshuffle the acronym meaning (I think the acronym itself still works) to something else. I’m not coming up with much creative for it at the moment : ) – Yogis Inviting Oneness Mindfully? Yogis Investigating Oneness Mindfully? Yoga Inspired Online Mudra (as in pose, not as in hand gesture)? Yoga Inspired Online Movement? Hmmm…
I would love to hear your thoughts!
Lorin
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois once said, “Practice and all is coming.” We can apply this idea to yoga practice, to working for non-profits, to our jobs, and to our relationships. The point here is 
that we need not worry about the outcome. If we just do our practice, wholeheartedly, what will come will come and we have done our parts. Given that non-attachment brings us closer to our natural state of bliss or enlightenment, that effort to simply practice, regardless of the concrete outcomes of the practice, brings us closer to our true selves.
Today, I was reminded of this as I participated in a 90 minute vinyasa practice, led by one of my fellow teacher trainees, and then taught my 90 minute practice session. Looking at these two experiences from the perspective of the immediate, neither was everything I might have hoped it would be. Katie’s class was great, but the ongoing problem that I’m having in my right arm made some of my poses feel sloppy and/or uncomfortable. And then, in the practice I led, I learned that I am not ready to teach immediately after taking a class. My head was in the “follower” space instead of the “leader” space and I felt pretty discombobulated. I also realized that I would rather have more pages of notes with bigger words, or less words on the page but bigger – basically, I need to be able to see my notes without my old lady glasses on 🙂
And yet, even with these problems, I’m glad I came to the mat. I am glad that I did my practice. Because the practice itself is good for me, and so is being in these moments where my expectations and reality are clashing a little and needing to push myself into letting go of the expectations. It’s all a practice – all of it.
Namaste,
L