Marie Thorne-Thomsen

My soul is flying, lingering not even a single moment...   Rumi

Mother Theresa - Photo by Hillary

It seems that this soul has found a moment with Amelia.  This incredible image captures not only one of my favorite postures, Samasthitihi or Tadasana but also the spirit of Nohoqui falls shadowing beautiful Amelia in the vegetative growth.  This is what we are all about, Samahdi.com.  Hillary Cortemanche and myself are working on an art, image and photography project.  Our goal is to capture soul and we need more souls!  If you are a yogi who knows how to drop in and is interested in some kick ass yoga photos of yourself please contact us.  We are putting together a very large deck of images.  Check out our website www.samahdi.com and take a look.  We are also interested in work for hire if you like our style but have your own agenda.  Enjoy!

Namaste'

Marie

How do we continue to keep the bliss we cultivate from yoga, surfing, nature, loving etc into every day activities and living? How do we live in bliss?

Integration.  This seems to be on the forefront of our evolving into a more conscious and awakened state.  Shall we talk dimensions?  Connecting our higher selves into our bodies.  So rather than going up and out, we go in. Again and again and again, until it becomes the norm. Remembering continually that you are a universal being of light and that light is ready to beam right out of you, but first you must polish the lens and prepare for its energy by integrating this divine essence into your physical cellular bodies.  How do we do this polishing and preparation?  Yoga and or any other activity that turns you on!  Breathing and meditation are pretty crucial as well.  You must have the intention, the awareness and then the universe will spin its web according to your highest good.  Sounds easy right?  It is.  I invite you to plug in, pull down some heavenly love and shine it on yourself and all those you come into contact with.  Shift your reality back into bliss and create your world as you want to live in it.  Everything is possible.

With so much love...

Marie

Please join, me, Chris Makens & Hillary Courtemanche for a 3 hour workshop dedicated to inversions, hip openers and backbends.  We are teaming up with lots of hands on assistance and adjustments.  The workshop will be held at Yoga Soup and the time approximately 1-4.  Flyer and more info to come.  

Saturday my two kids and I attended a birthday party on the Toot Toot Taxi in the Santa Barbara Harbor.  It was beautiful, hot, the perfect day to be out and about.  We meet the party and make our way down the dock and onto the little boat.  The ride was super exciting, especially if you are 3 years old.  The kids screech and take turns driving Toot Toot.  After checking out the pier, the local barge with more than a ton of pelican shit on it, and the buoy with seals we head back to the dock.  Carefully we shuffle about 10 3-7 year olds off the boat.  Jokingly we laugh nervously about keeping them walking straight and out of the water.

Instantly, time stops.  Little Inez fell in.  I look around and everyone is frozen.  I look down and see giant eyeballs underwater, hands grasping up and bubbles as she begins to sink down to the bottom of the harbor.  Memories of my own personal nightmares of my kids drowning and not being able to get to them flash through me.  In my dreams, I'm frozen, unable to move.  Sort of like the others around me in this instant.  But this time, I'm not waking up in horror.  I jump in, purse on shoulder, grab any part of the baby that I can and toss her up to the dock into waiting arms.  She coughs a little bit, cries and is ok.  I jump out of the water, feeling like superwoman.  Totally high on adrenaline.  Tons of commotion on the dock.  My heart beats in my ears and I feel out of my body at the same time.  Aware of everything.  Every blade of grass, word spoken, color, movement, sound, sight.  Crystal clear clarity.  Someone says to me, "Good thing you were there." and I said,

"I'm sure somebody would have jumped in and seen her".  

Then, a stranger puts his hand on my shoulder and says to me, "But you did."  I start sobbing instantly.  Inez's mom holds and comforts her.  All I can think of are the bubbles.  "What if?"  My mind runs a million times over.  "But you did" fills me with a sense of warmth and unconditional love, more than I've ever felt in my life.  Finally, I was at the right place at the right time. 

 

Atha - in the here and now...  where all moments of my life have brought me.  Every single experience leading up to this.  I feel like I've won the gold medal.  Saving a life is priceless.  In gratitude I am swimming.

Kiss your babies!!  With so much love

Marie