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Sylvia Clarie said, “Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.”

We all think way too much.

There’s an intelligence beyond thought that hopes, begs, preys to be accessed. We see it in our great artists and athletes, musicians and leaders.

But rarely do you see it displayed in such raw form as in the video below. This child just knew what to do…

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One might actually refer to the above photo as a partner yoga pose. Either way, it’s freakin hard, trust me. I used to do that one with the great Aaron King (King Yoga in Aspen) actually wearing very similar trousers…

…but since my accident at Legoland in 2001, I haven’t been up snuff.

To name a few of the other most difficult yoga poses:

Eka Hasta Vrksasana (one handed handstand)

Pungu Mayurasana (one armed peacock pose)

I want to suggest a pose that’s even more difficult and requires even more practice, discipline, and strength. It’s called:

STOP TALKING SMACK YOGIS!

It requires the very simple act of shutting your mouth before you say something bad about someone else.

I recently found out that another yoga teacher was talking about me (not positively) behind my back to someone prominent in our industry.

I know what you must be thinking and I agree… this teacher will never get any chocolate from me ever again.

I had only good things to say about this teacher. I respected them. I took their class. And this is how they responded?! By saying bad things about me?

So let’s take a moment to give a shout out to all the SMACK TALKERS. That means YOU. And God knows that means ME. We all talk behind other peoples’ backs.

If we don’t have something nice to say about someone else, why do we have to say it?!

Isn’t that truthfully the hardest yoga pose of all? To shut your lips and refrain from saying something bad about someone, especially if they are not in your presence?

Or even harder is to change the subject when smack talkers are baiting you to join them in their murky little pond of doubt and insecurity.

Beware, as a wise one said, “if someone will discuss others with you, they certainly will discuss YOU with others.”

Just something to consider next time you’re getting close to blowing verbal sharpnel.

The SmackTalkers Cure

French sociologist Emile Durkheim said, “Man cannot live without attachment to some object which transcends and survives him.”

If it’s been too long since you, me, or our SmackTalker pals have waded into what Carlos Castaneda calls the infinite space, let’s take a moment today to do we what must and pay homage to karma.

Because our thoughts and words are powerful beyond our wildest comprehension.

British philosopher James Allen noted that “our life is what our thoughts make it. One will find as she alters her thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter toward her.”

Or more simply stated, our thoughts and words are at once, our greatest gifts and our most deadly daggers.

Are you a lover…or a killer?

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“Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.” –George Bernard Shaw

Does every day fill you with more life? Or is every day just a step closer to death?

As a writer 80 years young and busting at the seams with creative fervor, Christopher Foster would tell you each day provides a new opportunity to discover The Moment.

And Chris has a level of “success” many can only dream of…a cozy, sweet, inspired life with JoAnn, his wife of 14 years.

His book, The Raven Who Spoke with God, is a kick in the butt to anyone who is determined to spite the aging process with one fell swoop of creative passion.

The book has garnered strong reviews including, “It reminded me of a JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL IN THE ROCKIES.”

Let’s be honest. American society makes it difficult to age gracefully. Seniors tend to be set aside in retirement homes with little relevance to the day-to-day affairs of American culture.

Is that how you want to age? Or would you, like Christopher, want to keep after it, shooting for the stars, and pursuing your depth of purpose well past “retirement age”?!

If you are interested in supporting those who keep dreaming BIG deep into life…please enjoy the following interview and take the journey with Chris by visiting here

“Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.”—Ojibway Indian saying.

2. If you could go back and give advice to your 5 year old self what would you say? What about your 50 year old self?

To the 5 year old me I would say:
“Never lose the sense that something special is waiting for you in life.”

And to the 50-year-old:
“Change is coming buddy. Make sure you don’t get too comfortable.”

3. Tell us a little about your life journey

I was born in London, England, in 1932. I discovered that I loved writing in the early days of WW2 when I wrote my first story in an old scrapbook. This was while bombs were falling all around the apartment block in London where I lived with my mother before I was evacuated. My dad was overseas as a war correspondent.

I discovered my other passion a few years later when I stunned my parents at lunch one day by announcing, “I want to find the truth of life.”

4. What is your greatest bit of advice?

Listen to your own inner wisdom.

5. Tell us about your book The Raven and what is the single greatest lesson one takes from the book?

I wrote this book as a way to portray in an allegorical manner the hero’s journey that I feel each one of us is on no matter what our gender or culture or nationality.

The key lesson is simply this. “Trust life. Trust your own unconquerable spirit.”

The plot…

…Joshua is a young raven who believes there is something important for him to do in life beyond just eating and sleeping and playing — namely to restore the true honor of the raven as a friend and guardian of humankind, as spoken of in ancient prophesies.

Of course it’s such a strange, unusual notion that his siblings make fun of him and his father gets mad at him, but Joshua follows the nudges of his own heart anyway despite the obstacles that life brings to him.

As he follows his dream and stays true to himself, Joshua finds the friends he needs to help him fulfill his mission.

For more from Christopher Foster please visit his blog at www.thehappyseeker.com. You can check out his book, The Raven Who Spoke with God, by visiting here.

The following is my true account of a relationship with a celebrity. I have never before disclosed these details.

I met her in September of 1996 in an LA yoga studio. Go figure.

She was not yet famous but one dose of her energy and I knew she was gonna be big…it was only a matter of time.

I will never, ever forget our first encounter…how I was just lying there, half naked, short of breath, in a state of emotional, spiritual, and physical rapture.

I followed her around the world…Cuba, Italy, Mexico, Hawaii, Belize, Costa Rica.

When she got excited, she spoke in her native tongue. She was foreign. I couldn’t think of anything sexier than her barking out orders in an exotic language.
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She taught me so much about life…and touched my soul in ways and places I didn’t know possible.

She went to another level of stardom after she graced the cover of Time Magazine in the early 2000s. I remember saying under my breath, “This will change everything.”

And then she was on Oprah and it only added fuel to the fire.

COULD IT LAST?

The romance somehow endured the stardom right up until 2006, when the love died, seemingly overnight.

From 2006 up until very recently, I suffered greatly and missed her love.  I have never told anyone before about this pain.

Who is this celebrity???

Cher?

No.

Diane Cannon?

No.

Kathy Bates?

No.

Her name..YOGA.   The above account details my falling in and out of love, not with a person, but with the ancient practice.

CRASH AND BURN

When I first started in 1996, yoga was just getting big.

But she became a full blown celeb in the early 2000′s spawning yoga fashion trends, big league prices, and varying effects on our attitude.

Maybe you yogis can relate? So many of us fall hard and heavy into a deeply sensual relationship with yoga.

We take a training, go on a retreat, buy all the stuff, tell everyone we know about yoga…

…until that one friend or relative gets annoyed: “If you freakin say one more thing about goshdarn freakin yoga, I’ll light your freakin mat on fire!”

And then, over time, many of us burn out on yoga.

It used to be that any pose, any adjustment, any spiritual teaching would be like the first raindrop on parched desert soil.

But then, like an addict, I needed more poses, more adjustments, more spiritual teachings. I wasn’t getting the yoga high I used to get.

And I became bored, lazy, it was a job.

To be perfectly honest with you, I’ve been running on fumes for years.  How many times can you do down dog before you just wanna explode your mula-freakin-bandha?

A STARTLING REVELATION

But then last week I awoke in the middle of the night (those 5pm espresso shots are never a good idea) and I picked up a classic spiritual book, The Power of Intention, and turned to just the right page (so it goes when we are willing to Listen).

The author Wayne Dyer writes, “Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud, ‘Thank you, God, for this symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life.’ Never once have I asked, ‘Why only a penny, God? You know I need a lot more than that.’ ”

There was a yoga class I took in New York City a few weeks ago.

It was a new teacher, in her early 20′s. The asana was basic, as I’m sure many of you would say is the best possible way to describe my less-than-thrilling asana teaching.

But this new teacher’s energy, passion, and old soul wisdom were off-the-charts fresh and invigorating.

In a city (NYC) of Dharma Mittras and Dayna Flynns (AMAZING), it was a newbie teaching basic sequences, counting breaths, and lovin every freakin second of it…that lit my yoga soul on fire all over again.

I think it’s fair to say this Law of The Penny applies not just to yoga but to anything with a delicate alchemy…from marriage to parenting to writing:

When we’ve lost the juice, look NOT to the fruit, but to the seed.

-Keep an open mind when that brand new yoga teacher is subbing for your favorite superstar. Their fresh energy has a way of seeping past a sheath of doubt and injecting new love right into your heart.

-Embrace your spouse in a way you haven’t touched her for many moons. If doctors would only write scripts: “A strong, long, deep hug…2x day…morning…and night.”

-Catch yourself next time you are walking and you see a glittering penny on the sidewalk.

As a wise one said, “As we become curators of our own contentment on the path to abundance, we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.”