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The Power to Allow
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Labor Day Weekend! I hope you all are doing well. I have had a couple of people in my life suddenly lose a parent in the last couple of weeks. There is the intellectual understanding of the natural course of things and then there is processing the shock and touching what is out of our…
The Right Path can be Difficult
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice weekend! While I was away I spent quite a bit of time in the familiar and also a lot of time in the unfamiliar. I noticed how my mind felt less burdened and stressed when I was exploring new places so since I returned home I have tried…
The Beginner’s Mind
By admin |
I hope you all had a nice weekend! While I was away I spent quite a bit of time in the familiar and also a lot of time in the unfamiliar. I noticed how my mind felt less burdened and stressed when I was exploring new places so since I returned home I have tried…
We Need Love to Grow
By Allison Waguespack |
Wow! These last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind both physically and emotionally for me. I traveled to 5 places and slept in 7 different locations! As I visited with lots of family, friends and students, the time was full of bittersweet reminiscing as well as the excitement of exploring a new place, Montreal…
If We Don’t Change It, We Choose It.
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday. I hope you all are doing well. Last week I was finalizing the content for a 6 hour Mindfulness Course I will be teaching at Michael Howard Studios Acting School in Manhattan next week. I decided to share the overall theme of the workshop as my mindful message for the week. It really…
We See Things As We Are
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great summer weekend. I continue to be amazed by the power of our minds to shape our reality. When we observe our thoughts with a bit of objectivity we have options; we can choose how those thoughts can best serve us. It is this remarkable power that we often…
You are the Boat
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a good week. I have been struggling a bit these past few weeks with my own inner critic. I have noticed it has been especially loud so I have been leaning more heavily on my meditation practice to help me quiet it. This reading by Mark Nepo entitled Integrity has…
The Power of the List
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy July! I hope you are all enjoying the summer so far. A couple of weeks ago I was spending time with a friend of mine that is going through a challenging time. Often, when we experience difficulty it is coming from several forces at once and it can make us feel quite overwhelmed. We…
Truth is Freedom
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great weekend! One of the most powerful aspects of a mindfulness practice is learning how to NOTICE. It sounds silly as we are taking in stimuli and information constantly, but really paying attention, processing and learning from the messages we are receiving takes practice. Sometimes the universe bangs us…
The Joy is in the Journey
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great weekend and Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers here. Last weekend I went to visit my brother and his daughter (my niece) who live in Costa Rica. I don’t get to see her that often so when I do, the visit is all about her. During the…
The power of the sacred pause
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! The transition to summer is here and whenever my schedule shifts I find myself feeling a bit more reactive in my responses. It was that awareness that inspired me to share this quote with students last week. “Between the stimulus and the response there is a space. And in that space is our…
The blessing of being a work in progress
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. Last week I did something my kids didn’t like. Considering they are 16 and 20 that definitely happens quite a bit; I can’t do that many things right :). In response to their disapproval I said “I am a work in progress”. The power of mindfulness is…
The Courage of the Seed
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all enjoying the long weekend. Last week I had conversations with two different people who had experienced deep loss of a close family member in the previous weeks. For one it was a complete shock which brought with it a complex set of emotions mixed with the grief, and for the…
Practice the Art of Thankfulness
By Allison Waguespack |
Last weekend was mothers day and I found myself truly thankful for the simple gift of having both of my children with me. There are the big moments we are programmed to be grateful for but we also have the opportunity to find gratitude in the everyday moments. It’s a practice that as with any…
We can be as happy as we choose to be
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! Last week I found myself going down the negative news cycle rabbit hole. I have heard it called doom scrolling and that is actually what it feels like; scrolling for doom. I was feeling quite down and stressed, until I realized why. That is pretty much always the first step in this practice;…
The Tenants of Wise Speech
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! Last week, as I was sharing about KM RESET Retreat in Marathon in my classes, several people mentioned they didn’t see it because it was at the bottom of my newsletter 🙂 So, first things first; dates and details are confirmed for KM RESET Retreat Marathon Key. Feb 1st-3rd 2025 at Isla Bella…
The Power of the Right Action in the Present Moment
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. It was a busy one for me. Sometimes when things are hectic and we lose the ability to pause we can find ourselves reacting rather than mindfully acting. When I notice this happening within myself I repeat my mantra; the words I try to live by most…
We cannot receive what we do not believe
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! Thank you so much for the support I received last week after sharing a couple of my new endeavors. It truly means so much. Through this process, I have been very aware of my own internal stories; the beliefs we have about ourselves that may or may not be true. It are those…
Let there be Light
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! I apologize for the especially long newsletter today. This past week I shared a reading by Mark Nepo that talks about the value of trusting ourselves and not giving up when we are trying new things or stepping out of our comfort zone. It inspired me because I truly needed that reminder. I…
Don’t pick it Up
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice weekend. In my last newsletter I shared the message about being a river, not a container. That concept continued for me this past week as I shared a story that one of my teachers, Jack Kornfield, tells from his time as a buddhist monk. One day he was…
Be a River
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice long weekend and a wonderful Easter to those who celebrate. Last week a friend of mine was sharing a revelation she had regarding the chance to free herself of trauma that she had been holding onto. She said “I am a river, not a container”.What she meant by…
Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. As humans we are creatures of habit. We have lots of positive habits; we brush our teeth in the morning, take our vitamins…. you get the idea. However, we also develop habits that do not always serve us. In addition to physical habits (staying up too late,…
How to Get a Life
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a good week. I happen to have a stack of books on my nightstand; several of which I am in the process of reading (and a couple not so much :)). However there is one book in the pile that I do read often. It is entitled A Short Guide…
Be a Friend to Yourself
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! Last weekend I got to spend a few days away with my college roommates. As I said goodbye to them at the airport, I found myself feeling extremely grateful for the gift of those enduring friendships. Thinking more about that upon my return reminded me of this reading that I shared with my…
The Power of the Pause
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope all is well. Last Sunday morning I left my house to head to the studio to take a yoga class. As I was leaving my neighborhood I realized that I had forgotten my cell phone. I had the time to go home and grab it but instead I decided to practice being with…
What can we let go of?
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice weekend. Last week I was having a conversation with an incredibly wise friend and we were talking about the power of perspective. She is in the process of organizing and purging as she has been through several moves in the last few years and found herself bringing lots…
The Power of Perspective
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Presidents Day! I hope many of you are enjoying a well deserved day off. Last weekend I was at an outdoor concert with a friend of mine. The band played lots of covers from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and I knew almost all the songs by heart. A bit into their set they…
Time & Loving Attention Heals
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great weekend. Recently I was checking in with my father-in-law. His wife (my mother-in-law) passed away in May so the last several months have been painful and difficult. He told me that a friend of his, who lost his wife even more recently than he had, already had his…
True Power of Gratitude
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. Last Sunday I was invited to a friends house for a girls day. I was excited to meet my friend’s sisters, her daughter and niece in addition to a couple of her friends. During the lovely afternoon, I had several nice conversations however one in particular stuck with…
The Power of Now
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. I am just a few days home from my retreat and it was wonderful. I included some pictures below but it is truly hard to capture in photos. I can only describe my re-entry as arriving home in a stupor of amazement that I get to do this…
Judgment Steals Joy
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. I cannot believe that my KLARITY Mindsette RESET in Marathon Key is just a few days away. I am so excited!!! As a result of that, my schedule will be modified over the next two weeks so see below for my schedule. Last week I shared that…
This Moment is THE Moment
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. I was very grateful to have a few days away with my family. It served as an opportunity to slow down, but that wasn’t as easy for me to do as I had hoped. It took a couple of days for me to settle and during those…
Intentions help us Heal
By admin |
Happy New Year! After my New Years Day class today I will be traveling for the rest of the week so I thought I would share my New Year message in this newsletter. There is so much focus on the changing of the year. We make RESOLUTIONS; expectations of meaningful change, that are usually difficult…
Learning to Allow
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope those that celebrate had a very Merry Christmas. The holidays can be a time filled with a range of emotions; joy, gratitude, sadness, loss, and disappointment. This holiday season is definitely filled with mixed emotions for me. This being the first Christmas without my mother-in-law as well as a last minute family visit…
Happiness is a Choice
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. As a yoga teacher and mindfulness coach I often talk about gratitude. Over the years I have done lots of reading on the science behind gratitude and there is, in fact, lots of scientific evidence to support a gratitude practice. Especially when things are challenging, when we…
The Value of Time
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. My son got his license a few weeks ago and he is anxious to drive longer distances on busy roads at night to visit friends. In the spirit of the well known truth that whatever we practice we will get better at my son and I have…
The Power of Acceptance
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. The heaviness in the world has definitely given way to moments of hopelessness in many of us. For myself it usually starts with feeling disconnected from my purpose combined with a feeling of helplessness. From there often judgment takes over. With practice I have learned to see the…
The Partnership of Grief & Gratitude
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday with family and friends. I certainly did! I was very grateful for all of the people I got to see and spend time with. I was also super happy to be back seeing some of my old students and teaching at Hastings Yoga last week. The theme…
The Power of Attention & Intention
By Allison Waguespack |
The essence of Buddhism and Mindfulness can be boiled down to two words; INTENTION & ATTENTION. There is a complete interconnectedness between our sense of what truly matters (intention) and how we pay attention. It is really powerful when we deploy these two concepts at the same time. When we connect to what truly matters…
The Power of Acceptance
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. The heaviness in the world has definitely given way to moments of hopelessness in many of us. For myself it usually starts with feeling disconnected from my purpose combined with a feeling of helplessness. From there often judgment takes over. With practice I have learned to see the…
Use Your Wings to Fly
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice weekend. Last week I shared with students that there are two Wings of Mindfulness and we need them both working together in order to FLY. The first wing is AWARENESS. When we notice our thoughts we have the power to shift them. The second wing is to be…
Connect to Your Spiritual Warrior
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. This week as I was preparing for my classes I realized that my message had not come to me. Usually it shows up at some point but this week it hadn’t. I started thinking about the energy I needed to cultivate in myself and hopefully to put out…
Resilience is Balance
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. Last week I had an experience that connected me back to the principles of karma so I apologize for the long newsletter today but I wanted to share some of them with you. I was walking my two nine year old rescue labradors in my neighborhood and…
Underneath the Broken is the Unbroken
By Allison Waguespack |
This past week has felt very heavy and heartbreaking and I have found myself struggling with my emotions. On Tuesday morning I was reading distressing news on my phone and crying when my son came out of his room for school. He asked me why I was crying and when I told him I was…
Take Your Time
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice weekend. Last week I shared the idea of “Taking our Time”. When we use this term it usually is as a reminder to slow down. However what if we thought about “Taking our Time” as more than just slowing down; instead as an active way of choosing to…
The Gift of Friendship
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are well. Deep friendships often sustain us through both good times and challenging ones. I was thinking about that quite a bit last week as I realized that some of the new friendships I am building here in Florida are truly beginning to feel like “old” friendships in the best ways.…
The Golden String
By Allison Waguespack |
As many of you know last year I completed a two year mindfulness meditation training program led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. As part of the program each participant is put into a group with 5 other students and we met monthly for two years. I am blessed to say that the six of…
The Power of the Present
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. Last week I had an experience that connected me back to the principles of karma so I apologize for the long newsletter today but I wanted to share some of them with you. I was walking my two nine-year-old rescue labradors in my neighborhood and I walked…
Our Trash waits for Us
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. Last week I was catching up with one of my friends who was my old neighbor. We used to walk our dogs together several times a week in the woods right near our houses. When I got off the phone with her I was reminded of a…
It’s not IN the way but IS the Way
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. I am realizing I am sending this out on Sept 11th at 9:00am which is the time 22 years ago when we experienced a national tragedy. I just want to take a moment to honor that suffering. This past week I shared with students that a couple…
The Wisdom in Blinking
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Labor Day weekend! It feels so good to be back teaching my full schedule. I am very blessed to love teaching so much after almost 20 years! My daughter is a reminder of how long I have been teaching because she was 9 months old when I completed my first teacher training and began teaching. Last weekend…
The Fear of Suffering Causes Suffering
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. The universe is always sending us messages…. often right when we need them. However, we have to be paying attention in order to receive them. That is the power of mindfulness. So, when I saw this little parable in my inbox from a friend last week I am…
Change the Frame
By Allison Waguespack |
Summer is winding down but it is still VERY hot here in Florida. As a result I definitely haven’t been running as much or as long as I would like. I have developed a routine for myself that includes stopping two thirds of the way through my run at my neighborhood gym to do a few…
Grounding into Practice
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all well. It has been a busy, fun and exciting couple of weeks for me with special visitors (my god daughter and her parents), a trip to Disney World and then to Mallorca, Spain. When we step out of our normal routine it is interesting what can happen. For myself, I…
Breaking through the clouds
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. After all the travel, I am grateful for my routine and teaching my regular schedule this week. While I was away I did not commit regular time to my meditation practice and when I arrived home and resumed my practice it was a struggle. Several times when I…
Power of the Present Moment
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy August! We are back in Florida and it is definitely hot! I very much enjoyed my last two weeks in the northeast and I LOVED seeing some of my old students and teaching a class at Hastings Yoga. My message was my favorite quote and I shared how I saw this play out in both…
Meditation is inside of us all
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all well. We had a great family vacation and I was genuinely happy to be back teaching students this week. A couple of weeks ago my 4 1/2 year old god daughter Leah and her parents came to visit. It was very special time and I loved seeing the world through her eyes for…
Inaction is Action
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy July! I hope summer is in full swing for all of you. I am still adjusting to never-ending summer here and I find myself looking at the calendar incredulously at times. I have been having a few conversations with folks close to me lately about feeling stuck or unmotivated and it reminds me of a…
Noticing the Flags of Trance
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far. In my last newsletter I shared the struggle I was having with my “monkey mind” that wouldn’t settle down. This is often a symptom of what is called “living in a trance”. Living in trance means that we are not fully present in our lives and we each…
The Monkey Mind
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all doing well. This past week I was struggling with my personal meditation practice. My “monkey mind” was taking over and I couldn’t settle down enough to find any space. The “monkey mind” is a description of our thoughts swinging “from branch to branch to branch” like a monkey in a tree. Often times,…
Softening into Resistance Minimizes Suffering
By Allison Waguespack |
As a yoga teacher there are terms that I say very often when I am teaching; two of them “soften into your resistance” and “meet your edge and soften” essentially mean the same thing; to focus on learning how to be kind to our bodies and soften when we feel our body holding onto tightness. This softening into resistance offers us more resiliency,…
Generosity Leads to Abundance
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! I shared the Buddhist principle; Generosity leads to Abundancewith my students this past week. I have found in my own experience that there is an additional element we need when cultivating true abundance in our lives, and that is authenticity. When we make choices based on both of these qualities we have the chance to…
We can be bitter or better but not both
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. I heard this great quote last week that stayed with me. I love the simplicity of the statement and the powerful truth behind it. This message became our practice for the week. “You can be bitter or you can be better but you can’t be…
Mixed emotions
By Allison Waguespack |
This past week my family suffered a difficult loss. My husband’s mother passed away after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Our family has been processing a range of emotions. There is sadness, loss, grief and also relief that she is no longer suffering and gratitude that she is now at peace. A death after a prolonged illness is an…
Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you are right
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. I taught an arm balancing workshop over the weekend. It has been a while since I had done that and it was really fun to get back to it. As I was reviewing what I had done previously and made some tweaks in preparation for the workshop…
We need more than time to Heal
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. I just started working with a couple who are going through unspeakable grief, the loss of their only child. There is a common belief in our culture that time heals all wounds. What I shared with them and with my classes this past week is that is not the case.…
The Grief of Change
By Allison Waguespack |
Sometimes we move through a period of dramatic shifts and transitions in our lives, and at other times, things can feel more static. As most of you know, for me, the last year has been one of many changes; leaving my old special life to start a new one in a new state in addition to sending…
Peace is this Moment without Judgment
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. As I mentioned last week in this newsletter, I am working through a flare up of an old injury and that brings old thought patterns. One of the habits of thought I notice during these times is a bit of bargaining with the universe for my own…
The Power of Nostalgia
By Allison Waguespack |
This past week was full of nostalgia. I spent a few days in New Orleans; the city I spent my college career, met my husband and some of my dearest friends and where I had a really good time! It was a blast to spend time at my old school and with friends (and my…
The Wisdom in Blinking
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week and happy holidays to all that celebrate. Early last week I was having a conversation with a friend that is likely one many of us have had about the nature of people; the idea of “glass half full” versus “glass have empty”. It has been shown in…
The Power of the Fearless Heart
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. Last week there was a strong voice in my head loudly pointing out all the things that could go wrong. That voice does not typically take over such a large presence in my mind but this past week it was like a sports commentator offering a play…
Attention is Generous
By Allison Waguespack |
Last weekend we had very close friends visit with their 9 year old son Max who happens to be my godson. I loved spending time with all of them however the time with Max was especially poignant partly because being with him reminds me of when my kids were his age. As I touched those…
We Need Two Wings to Fly
By Allison Waguespack |
Last Monday I had one of those days where I was just really feeling down. I wasn’t able to identify a why but what I was connecting with was a combination of sadness and purposelessness. Then came the judgment….. judgment of myself for feeling this way as a mindfulness teacher. The judgment began to totally…
The Kinship of Gratitude
By Allison Waguespack |
This past week my daughter Eva was home from college for spring break and along with a pile of dirty laundry, she brought with her a stomach bug that went through our family. Wednesday was my day. As I laid in bed miserable I was feeling quite sorry for myself. With bad stomach pain, a…
Decision-Making SUPER POWER
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope school is off to a great start for everyone. It probably feels good to get back to (and for me, establish) some routine in our days. As I am figuring out my routine, part of that exploration is trying out the different yoga studios here. There are so many and it is a…
Practice Makes Us Better
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all doing well. Last weekend we had friends in town visiting (one of them happens to be an amazing photographer who took this picture) and we went to the Delray Open Tennis Tournament. It was really fun and quite crowded. At one point I found myself waiting in a very long line…
The Antidote to Suffering
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great week. Recently I have been spending some time with the concept of suffering. According to Buddhist psychology, we are all supposed to experience some suffering in our lives. It is what helps us recognize true joy. However, as humans, we do spend so much of our lives trying to…
Power of the Patience
By Allison Waguespack |
Power of the Patience Hope you all had a great week. What I share each week in my classes and in this newsletter usually comes from what I am experiencing in my own life. Lately I have been practicing connecting to the POWER of PATIENCE. In our culture, we are all very good at practicing impatience.…
Power of the Pause
By Allison Waguespack |
Happy Monday! For the second weekend in a row I was blessed to have dear friends in town visiting. It really does fill my soul. In all of the planning and organizing for guests along with the day to day pace of life I noticed myself at times forgetting the power of the PAUSE. If I needed…
What We Choose to Emphasize
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a great weekend. My weekend was filled with laughter and joy as I had three very close friends come for a visit. The weather was cool and overcast during their visit (and I felt responsible somehow that I could not provide sunny eighty-degree days). We all acknowledged the weather was less…
Fill your Happiness Cup
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a nice weekend. I have been developing a new KLARITY Mindsette workshop on Happiness and was inspired to share some of it with my classes last week. Happiness is a lofty topic. It is truly what we all strive for. The Dali Lama talks about our level of happiness being…
Let There Be Light
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. Last week, both in our practice on the mat (with cutie pie crow pictured above) and off of it I touched on what it means to Live in the Light. Often when we think of trying something new or putting ourselves out there, there is…
Move from THERE to HERE
By Allison Waguespack |
This month I am completing a two-year mindfulness meditation certification program (MMTCP) with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach. The world was a very different place when I was accepted into this program in February 2020 (2/20 photo above) and especially when the program began in January of 2021. It has been quite an intense time…
Ride the Waves
By Allison Waguespack |
A new year can offer us the chance to set an intention for ourselves. I prefer setting an intention over making a resolution because intention offers a little more space for compassion and less space for self-judgment. 2022 has been a year of many transitions for me and those transitions brought with them intense emotions. Truthfully, there…
What Can We Put Down?
By Allison Waguespack |
With the holiday season in full swing and 2022 coming to an end, last week I felt a bit overwhelmed with all that needed to get done. I am sure many of you have experienced similar feelings. I shared the passage below with my classes. Reading it always helps me touch base with what is…
Live Your Life…
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are doing well. Last week was one of those weeks where lots of things were not going totally right; from little inconveniences like dry cleaning and prescriptions not being ready to have to adjust our morning drive to school to bigger stuff in the lives of loved ones. I felt a…
Home is Inside Us
By Allison Waguespack |
With the holiday season in full swing and 2022 coming to an end, last week I felt a bit overwhelmed with all that needed to get done. I am sure many of you have experienced similar feelings. I shared the passage below with my classes. Reading it always helps me touch base with what is…
Choosing Happiness
By Allison Waguespack |
This week in my class I shared some tips for cultivating the practice of CHOOSING HAPPINESS. We know whatever we practice we get better at and we practice things we don’t want to get better at without even realizing it. That is what mindfulness offers… a chance to consciously choose what we want to “practice”. There…
The Power of WISE SPEECH
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all had a good week. With my recent move to Florida, I have been playing a bit more tennis as it’s a great way to meet people. A week and a half ago I played in a clinic and there was a middle-aged woman there who I hadn’t met before. She seemed…
The Art of Facing Things
By Allison Waguespack |
This past week I definitely experienced a large wave of emotions– the “Sea of Feelings” was not calm as in the picture above. All the change and transition I have experienced in the last 6 months seemed to hit me very intensely after returning home from my retreat. Upon reflection, I realize that my retreat…
Control Over Our Own Suffering
By Allison Waguespack |
I am home just about a week from my retreat. I was so inspired by the amazing people that joined me this year; such powerful women with incredible energy. We laughed and danced and explored our special little island paradise. It always takes me a few days to come down from the high of the experience. I…
I Hope You Are All Doing Well
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all doing well. It was a bit of a dramatic week last week with hurricane Ian. We are feeling very lucky that we had very little impact from the storm. My heart is breaking for those who cannot say the same. In the mindfulness community we talk a lot about being…
Karma is a Gift
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you are all doing well. Things here are good. I am getting close to settling on a place to teach which is making me very excited to teach again. So I decided to film a short 20 minute flow and post it to my Youtube page. The link is below if you feel…
CHOOSING HAPPINESS
By Allison Waguespack |
This week in my class I shared some tips for cultivating the practice of CHOOSING HAPPINESS. We know whatever we practice we get better at and we practice things we don’t want to get better at without even realizing it. That is what mindfulness offers… a chance to consciously choose what we want to “practice”. There…
Decision Making SUPER POWER
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope school is off to a great start for everyone. It probably feels good to get back to (and for me, establish) some routine in our days. As I am figuring out my routine, part of that exploration is trying out the different yoga studios here. There are so many and it is a…
End of Summer
By Allison Waguespack |
The summer really feels like it’s ending…. well not the weather here in Florida but school is starting and I am turning my focus to my upcoming retreat in October. I am so excited to be traveling back to Thatch Caye in Belize with 17 students for a wonderful adventure. Last week I traveled very…
SEE and BE with it all
By Allison Waguespack |
Hi Everyone, August is here and with the heat also comes the looming end of summer. A week from today I head north to North Carolina to drop my daughter off at college for her freshman year. Just typing these words makes me choke up a bit. As many of you know, I used to…
Bloom Where I am Planted
By Allison Waguespack |
Hi Everyone, Hi! I hope you all are having a great summer. This last month has been quite a whirlwind for my family but we are getting adjusted to our new life in a new state. This week I finally found some time for my yoga practice. It felt both strange and good to lay…
Deviation from My Path
By Allison Waguespack |
I hope you all are well and enjoying the beginning of summer. I am entering my last week of teaching here in Westchester. Even as I type those words I can feel my heart swell a bit. This has been and will continue (I expect for the next couple of months) to be an intense…
Look for the Lessons
By Allison Waguespack |
Hi Everyone, It’s taken me a few days be able to write this newsletter. In just over two weeks my family will be relocating to Florida. As you can imagine we are cleaning, organizing, purging, reminiscing, and mostly cherishing our last days here in this sweet town. I taught my last classes for a while…