A review of 2010 posts, an Earth Yogi reflects

The death of my father generated lots of sympathy from people in the blog space and I am grateful to all of you for your support during that time at the end of April. Throughout the year I felt close to death and learned a few lessons from her.

This year also saw a new phase of creativity manifest in cartoons. I do not know where those came from, I mean, I like cartoons, but I never thought I could draw, I'm kind of proud of this one.

The manga face here was done through by following youtube tutorial, who knew?

I've also had a directorial debut on the "lame excuses not to do yoga", Feel free to share it in your blog if you like it, it even has Spanish subtitles now:



A poll I run for Ashtangis asking weather they had started second series before or after dropping back returned surprising results...

A post dedicated to Veterans of War  was one I made after talking to a woman who had been deployed to Irak and was searching for relaxation and peace in yoga.

This year I attended my second Vipassana meditation retreat, and I am really sold on their technique, I sometimes now find myself craving meditation, and hoping to build up to the hour in the morning/hour in the evening!

Then I started writing for Elephant Journal and my post 21 things I wish I knew before I started Ashtanga has over 8000 hits now with over 1000 Facebook likes, which confirms my gut feeling that people are very interested in it.  Being exposed to a larger audience was a blessing, it gave me courage to try new things and introduced me to many new people.

And... I am the kind of girl who likes lists! so here is the 3 most read:

The Billionaires who practice Ashtanga gathered quite a bit of comments, and I was surprised to read that Tim Miller wrote a post on how he felt about the whole Encinitas new landscape, with Joisyoga and John Friend coming into his backyard.

During 2010 I also started a series of lists where I had 32 things. Why 32? I don't know, guess it chose me rather than me it, the most popular by far was the: 32 Unusual Ways to Love Ourselves, I suppose we can all use a little of that.

Then there was the time when my Husband started practicing yoga and I noticed a few adorable things about his eyes wide open approach to the practice, God bless him.

The blog has grown this year and I have seen many blogs around grow as well. This was a year of expansion and learning new things.

Most important of all I am grateful to you guys out there who read and gave me targeted advise on asanas, and blogged and shared and commented!. Wish you all a great 2011.
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