Freeing My Mind...I Hope!

"Freedom" by Amanda Cass

Free Your Mind! by Catrin Welz-Stein

On Day 24 of my 53 for Me blog I wrote how Cara explained yoga is 20% about the poses and 80% about freeing your mind.

In a few hours I will take off for the Catskill Mountains in NY and be a participant in a yoga and nature hike retreat. I am more than a little excited.

The top line of our itinerary reads:
"All events are optional. Please do whatever you feel like doing or nothing at all."

I will probably be an "all in" kind of participant.

I have a few goals for my mind freeing experience.

• Get back to writing in my journal ~ for ME, when I do that, I find that I don't have a ton of pent up thoughts. I get them on paper and am better able to move on. When it leaves my head to paper, I do have a free mind.
  
• To keep working on poses with bird names and perhaps master one.
  
• To enjoy the community of new women and women I know, but not necessarily well.
  
• To be in the present for the whole time and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!
  
• To not even worry for one second that I won't be writing a blog tomorrow for the first time since I launched this site.
  
• To come back rejuvenated.

I am looking forward to 48 hours without cell service, email, or any other outside distractions. 

Can you even remember the last time you had that luxury?

I feel as if the phone is attached to my hand. (I am convinced it is surgically attached to my teens' hands.)

This is the Jon Schmidt (the piano half of the piano guys) song,
"Bells of Freedom" performed by a pretty darned talented piano player.
http://youtu.be/CTFMG-b7sEw_