world traveler

TITLE: World Traveler. The Original Mixed Media Painting is available in my etsy shop.

I finally signed up for a yoga class. I have this funny thing with yoga, that I've never liked taking classes, yet they're always good for me. My first class was with this crazy drill sergeant type (totally not the style I take now). I literally got so nervous, I rolled over into the wall and left a huge butt print right in the drywall.
 

Years later, I end up marrying Brian, who I knew in high school, but who I had no idea would end up getting into yoga. So much so, that this year he graduated from a yoga teacher-training program and will be assisting in my new yoga class. As much as I don't want to go, it's that nervous fear kind of feeling mixed with a lot of excitement. I know taking a yoga class makes me feel super vulnerable, yet I know how free I feel when I allow myself to accept and move through that vulnerability into a much stronger place.

   

It reminds me of this new painting, WORLD TRAVELER. I painted this piece to express the sacredness I feel when I acknowledge my smallness in the universe, when I face the world with an open heart, knowing I'm just one piece of something so infinite. You may notice an eye at her belt. That was completely unintentional, yet so fitting.  I love it when that happens.