Name: Amy P
Where and When: Ann Arbor, MI on May 23
What about these photos make them special? “My beautiful moment with my dog, Blake, happens everyday. Each day, I have to leave Blake at home to go to work, yoga, run errands, etc. and each day I get to come home to him welcoming me with love and kisses. There’s nothing like the love of a dog, it’s unconditional. Blake is always happy to see me, even when I’ve only been gone for a few minutes. He helps me live in the moment because I always get the pleasure of coming home to someone who is always happy to see me.
My delicious moment was a new recipe I tried. I learned the recipe over the weekend at the Midwest Yoga Conference, and I’ll be honest, I was skeptical. I followed the directions and made a raw walnut taco provided for me by Moses and Zeina. I wasn’t sure what to top it with so I just used my imagination and what I had in my fridge. This included spinach, cilantro, tomatoes, cucumbers, and avocado. I took lunch to my friend, Nina, and we tried the tacos together. Both of us were pleasantly surprised by the delicious flavor explosion from the tacos. Taking the time to taste and enjoy these wonderful tacos on our very short lunch break is living the moment!
My funny moment involves sixteen 8th graders at a local school here in Ann Arbor. I was asked to come in a help choreograph a dance for their 8th grade farewell assembly. This past week was the first time I got the chance to actually watch them as I am usually doing the moves with them. Watching the boys was definitely my funny moment. I realized that the boys had no sense of body awareness let alone dancing. And I was asking them to shake their hips?! I had to stop in the middle of the routine, ask the girls to sit down and then show the boys how to shake their hips. As if 8th grade isn’t already awkward filled with braces, glasses, and general dorkiness, I was probably making it much worse for them. Two of the boys were having more difficulty than the rest of the group. So I took these two boys aside on a break and worked with them. It came to the point where I literally had to place my hands on their hips and shift their hips from left to right. I helped these two boys for about ten minutes and then we went back to the entire group performing the routine. So they aren’t perfect hip shakers, but at the very least they are entertaining.”
How do you live in the moment? “I live in the moment by enjoying the simple pleasures in life. From watching the rain fall gracefully on flowers to tasting something delicious or coming home to warm kisses from my dog or rocking out to a good song, it really is the simplest pleasures that help me live in the moment. It’s stopping to smell the roses or enjoy a rainbow after a rainstorm. It’s never regretting loving someone with all you have. It’s living the life you love. Living the moment is living for the simple pleasures.”
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