Catch up - HAWAII

 Aloha! I can not believe I am writing this entry 3 months after my trip. I'm slightly ashamed but at the same time I really feel as though I needed that time to process everything that happened on the Big Island. It was truly a grand adventure and I can't image having missed the opportunity to meet such an amazing and vibrant group of women (and men!) First and foremost a GIANT thank you to the wonderful Shakti Sunfire. She is a graceful, majestic, loving, and fierce soul. She offers so much more than people could ever pay for, I cant honestly remember what the trip cost in total (even with the rental car) because ultimately the experience was beyond worth it. No words can express the gratitude I feel in my heart for each of the people I connected with that week. Anah - you are also a passionate and amazingly talented, and hilarious instructor. THANK YOU! and equally, my dear Tarah, you are a gem! I'm so blessed!!!!!!

Can you tell I had a good trip!?!

I spent a week in paradise with beautiful women practicing the beautiful flow art of hula hooping... it was completely indescribable. Morning breakfast, fresh coffee, yoga class, hoop sessions, lunch, more hoop, dinner, wine, volcanoes, snorkeling... SEND ME BACK NOW!!!!!

Most importantly this trip was a venture into myself... it was a time for me to be completely alone... to depend on the new community around me rather than anything familiar. it was a time for me to try new things, to go new places, to embrace this new me that I have been working so hard to create. This was a time for me to sit back and say... Look at what you have done... Life is paradise... this trip made me thankful for who I am, for the love and skills that I have to offer, and equally for the beautiful and good qualities in all of the people around me. This trip - appropriately titled "Initiate" - was the beginning of a new chapter... a new mentality.. a new me. 

Things since Hawaii have been a little crazy to say the least. I have been to a few different shows; Noah Gundersen, Beats Antique (where my car window got smashed out), Mortified (Portland trip). I'm training for another half marathon (run forest run!). I'm created a TON of art and was part of the Pancakes and Booze show. I am prepping for the Seattle RAW art show in June which means more arting :P  plus the usual work, cupcakes, yada yada yada.... How about I don't give away ALL of my upcoming blogs... I really want to try and get back into this... I find it to be therapeutic, even if people only come to see my workout things (which there will be more of!)

Anyway, Stay tuned. I haven't given up on this yet!