Yoga Tales from Rural Maine: What Yoga with Naomi is all about

If you are looking for someone to "complete" you, then you will draw to you someone who sees you as incomplete. I recommend against this. No matter how broken you feel, you are an intact, complete, beautiful being.

Yoga allows us to experience this first hand. The word "yoga" means "union." Yogis understand this as meaning the union of body, mind, and spirit. I often describe it in class as a "reunion."

If you have gotten lost from your awareness of yourself, you don't need another being to complete you. You need a reunion with yourself.

Yoga with Naomi is a practice of constant, ongoing, reunion. I welcome you--all of you, the full completeness of you--to practice each class, and then you have the opportunity to reunite with yourself. You may feel broken in body, mind, or spirit; most of us do. All due respect to the writers of "Jerry Maguire," but the answer is not in finding a life-mate who completes you. It is in remembering and re-experiencing that you are whole, exactly as you are.

Preparing to teach a bridal shower yoga class in East Orland.