I graduated high school in about

1980. Went to Hersey, which is a public school built I think in about 1972? Most of my friends went to St. Viators.



When I was in college a good friend and I went to a yoga class and people were meditating and moving energy

through their spine and feeling their chakra's. It freaked me out and I thought it was a cult....LOL However, after

some years later I got interested and once you scratch that itch of spiritual development, then its going to be a

part of your life for ever.... Bruce, you know that, but its fun to share...

I was talking to a fella yesterday

who had no clue about any of this and he was asking me if the general classes that we do are all the same or if

there is some progression with them. I had to try to explain that it takes a long time to release your tensions and

learn to go inside. It takes at least a year to somewhat stabilize your emotions and avoid the big ups and downs and

three years (typically) until one gets stable and extra sensitive. Its all up to how much we want to put into each

class and how into it we really want to go... I've learned that sincerity is the key. Sounds simple but you have

to love yourself and focus your intent which takes practice. In any case, I told the fella that if he wanted we can

give him some homework to do after classes that will help him alot....LOL

In any case, talking to people about

yoga is one thing, but its when they talk with you and feel the love that you are that they feel there is something

special going on. Then, they realize that it's not just excercize, that its something more.

I started out

many years ago thinking that I could learn all this stuff by reading a book and yes it helped. It wasn't until I

took to practice (action) with an experiened person (master, teacher...) in a systematic way that my growth really

took off.

Bruce und Gabe uderstand all this, but for other curious people just reading this, it has been a very

worthwhile and increadible journey of self growth doing yoga and related practices. Get started and keep

going...you can do it!

I just read this morning Nelson Mandela's prayer...

Our Greatest Fear is not

that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our

light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,

talented, and fabulous?”

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.



Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.



It is not just in some of us,
it is in every one,
And as we let our own light shine,



We unconsciously give other people Permission

to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own

fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.