May 1 Leap Day Insights

O'hare Gate C26 - Here I Come Bahamas!

I learned quite a few lessons on Leap Day, and one of them was quite costly.  Yet, I moved forward, and now I am here at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas - for a year!

LESSONS LEARNED ON MAY 1:

1. Shipping costs out of the country may seem expensive, but are much less costly than overage charges at the airport for bags over 50 Lbs. 
   
2. Stressed out and unbalanced Pitta (new to Ayurveda lingo - check out the link) can be very determined, stubborn and a poor listener.  While friends and family suggested taking 3 pieces of luggage, all I could think about was the difficulty in maneuvering 3 bags at the train terminal and then at the airport.  It never registered in my mind that a too heavy bag could be a bigger problem.  Tho others also suggested taking a taxi.  I insisted that I was going to take the train as I was concerned about traffic and being late.  Again, I couldn't hear anything past what my concerns were.
3. Yoga, love from yogi friends and well wishes from all, plus sleeping in my own bed the night before I left (thanks to Mandy buying my bed and then housing me once I had no more furniture - crazy, huh?:) and rising early had me fully ready the morning of May 1.  When the Uber driver helped me with my extremely heavy suitcases and smiled kindly while doing so, I calmed a bit.  Then he encouraged me to not take the train and assured me that he could get me to the airport no later than 7:30 am, and listening with my heart, I believed him.  So I settled back for a great ride with Gospel Singer, Cedric Nunley!  Arrival at O'hare Airport 7:15am:)
4. Cedric and others in the airport kindly helped me with my luggage, and having relaxed, I calmly accepted the result of my stressed and unbalanced Pitta decisions.  When I got to the luggage counter, the damage was $200 for a 67 Lb bag - yikes! (a 3rd bag would have cost $35 and shipping directly would have cost $70 more than to the US - I definitely made the wrong choice - laughing at my own pig headedness!)
5. Being grateful and opening my heart led me here, and as I arrived at the Ashram, I was blessed with a tent hut that has an attached area with  a long writing table - the one I am creating this blog on right now:)    Yes, I do know it is a tent, but it has this wonderful space for writing, and I am so thankful that I am in tent A-1 at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat!  I am thrilled to be here!!!

I will be bringing quite the challenge to my guide, the highly esteemed herbalist and Ayurveda expert, KP Khalsa.  These past few weeks, I've been really out of sorts and am sure I added to the list of imbalances for us to work on:)   Learn more about what KP Khalsa has prescribed to aid in 'moving the Titanic' as he refers to some of my adult life-long issues.

A big part of the 67 Lbs gratefully came from the well respected and best organic provider of herbs in the U.S., Banyan Botanicals.

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