Moving! (is good)

 Helloooo Garden Street Yoga friends and family!

10,000 thanks for the flowers, food, amazing hugs, and total SURPRISE! at the 25-year Garden Street Celebration. And 10,000 thanks for all of you who keep showing up and keeping Garden Street open and alive with your good company and good Yoga.

I’ve been hearing from several people variations on the question , "You’re moving? When? Where? And how does this affect Garden Street?” Thanks for asking…..

First, about the move. My husband, Chris, and I are moving from our home of 25 years to a beautiful piece of land near Newport, Washington.

The land is 40 acres of fantastic variety: wetlands; meadow; a promontory to hike up, from which you can see for miles; many amazing old-growth trees, including endangered species that are thriving. The whole place is verdant and alive and wild.

We are remodeling and reconstructing a house that came with the land. (“We” means Chris and Leo doing most of the work. Eli when his schedule allows). I am working at clearing and packing. So “heavy lifting” - physically and emotionally - is happening on both ends – constructing a new home and deconstructing our current home.  

I don’t foresee any changes at Garden Street except positive ones. I am dedicated to keeping the doors open, the lights on at Garden Street and supporting all the great teachers and the good Yoga offered week to week. It's an easy commute for me, so I will keep teaching my classes. And at our new place we have great internet, so my online teaching will continue and perhaps expand.

In terms of the energy at Garden Street, I feel a renewal beginning. Fresh growth. A kind of refreshment and revitalization. New offerings and teachers are in the works. (Stay tuned). Garden Street seems to me to be as beautiful and flourishing as ever.

At our new place, Garden Street will also be able to flourish. We are designing and finishing a light-filled, hardwood floor, open room for things like Yoga retreats. We have a secluded tiny house which we will make available for solo meditation retreats. Maybe we'll even offer retreats like device-detox and forest-bathing.

All of that is me casting lines possibility and imagination into the future. And then “we’ll see” what Grace has in store.

Effort and Grace. Moving is mostly the Effort side of that Yoga two-step. But thanks to Yoga I know how to  – and try to remember to - put my arms up in the air in a capital Y and say “Yes” to Grace, ever present, which rains down like water freely given. And say a big Yoga YES.  Thanks for reading and thank you for Everything.

With Infinite Love and a big Namaste…..Karin