Filed under: Blogging, Life, Organic, Technology, Work/Life Balance | Tags: balance, Cyber hippy, freedom, freedom fighters, Technology
For a while now I have been grappling with a ‘secret’ contradiction… I have a problem with balancing my quest for freedom vs. my love of ‘most things’ technological.
I often preach that the internet is the one final frontier left for ‘freedom fighters’, BUT I keep thinking that at some point there may be an ‘up-swell’ of people that will reject the world of the computer/intenet/mobile to once again ‘find freedom and themselves’… On one side I get this [and I may even join the group.. if I can bring my laptop and iburst!]….NO really…..it would be cool to sometimes just go into total ‘switch off mode’ [eeekk!] and run away from the world and its noise.
The reality though, is that technology has become such a part of my life [I can just hear some of you saying.. sooo sad] and no matter how I try to reject it, I simply cant. I feel isolated, cut off and insular without it.. far from free…
So that got me thinking, will we ever get to the machines vs. humans [ala Matrix] stage? Are we pushing forward to fast and hard…forgetting [in part] what makes us human…personal interaction? Part of me wants to throw off my shoes and run carefree [wind in the hair etc etc] in a green meadow with grazing sheep, feeling the earth ooze beneath my feet.. I am a hippy at heart BUT the other part wants to create, surf, dig and interact with as much new technology as I can get my hands on… can I have it all?? Maybe I should call myself a cyber hippy?!
In the end I suppose its about finding my personal balance in a world of high speed and change.. not an easy one….
Posted by: Cyber Hippy [aka Candice]
Filed under: Life, Lifestyle, Work/Life Balance | Tags: Life, Work/Life Balance, Yoga
Work-Life balance…….? In life its all about enjoying the journey and not rushing to the destination – just like Yoga!
On Monday I took my first Bikram class in Jozi. I’ve done tons of Sivananda Yoga when I was living in LA – I actually even signed up to do a Teachers Training Course in Grass Valley- Cali, but I had a little bubba instead. I’m still thinking I should do a part time course here in SA it’s just a matter of finding the right place to do it. My first Bikram class turned out to be a huge hit, today my body is aching all over but that is purely because I have practiced the practice for ages. The class started at 5:30am but you had to get to the studio at 5:00am if you were a new comer. I got there 15 minutes late my bad luck, but I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal, being yogis no-one stresses – right? WRONG! The woman at the front desk was abrupt and stated in a rude manor that we were 15 minutes late and that we had to register and that she had to run through the breathing techniques for the class. I thought that was very un-yogi-fied but it didn’t stop me wanting to try out the class. It turned out that she was the teacher – great thats my kinda luck!!!
Well the day got brighter with a few stars.. from all the heat in the studio! I don’t recommend this for the faint hearted – if you can‘t stand the heat in the kitchen then you’ll have serious difficulty lasting in here. You walk into a room of extreme heat, it’s like Durbs in the summer with highest humidity ever – but I love that even with the frizzy hair! Throughout the class you do slow moving asanas with with rythmic breathing. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I managed to sustain the full 90 minutes and the after feeling – wow it’s priceless!! What a great way to start the day, it beats any Kelloggs. I highly recommend you get on it and maybe I’ll see you there. If I get to go twice a week.. that’s depending on my 11 month old daughter, if she gives me the time of day to focus my third eye.
“Expand. Evolve. Grow. Forget not the goal. Awake. Achieve the goal”.
Yoga is the Way!!!
www.bikramyoga.co.za
www.sivananda.org
Posted by: Donna
