Stiches are off, and I have a new Gators cast, and a new set of exercises until the next visit. Celebrating love and healing–not two different things. On the road to recovery! Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miami Firm Body (@miamifirmbody)
Author: Carlos Gonzalez
Together
Going through life’s challenges together makes even the most difficult of times less of a strain. We travel back today for a follow up visit with my surgeon in Gainesville. Grateful for everything I’ve learned these past three weeks. Most grateful for the enormous amount of love I’ve experienced. View this post on Instagram A… Continue reading Together
Leap of Faith
Hanuman is said to have leaped from India to Sri Lanka in his quest to serve Ram. His feat was a demonstration of how love and devotion when embraced wholeheartedly lifts up the heart and enables us to do what seems impossible. My Hanumanasana is definitely a pose in process, one I may not fully… Continue reading Leap of Faith
Intention and Effort
Opening our hearts, engaging our core, standing firm on what is became the basis of our warrior practice yesterday afternoon with a group of amazing FIU students. We keep coming back to the importance of training and strengthening, not just our muscles but our whole self. I’m so grateful that as I wait for bones… Continue reading Intention and Effort
Forgiveness Bell
“Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave,” my Instagram friend, @warith_me, quoted on his post this morning. Forgiveness is also the undoing of all stories of separation and judgment. In the Indian epic poem, The Ramanaya, Ram (God) asks Hanuman, ‘Who are you?” His answer helps us better understand the path of forgiveness in yoga. He… Continue reading Forgiveness Bell
Courage and Love
I was scheduled to teach a stress reduction yoga meditation class for six weeks at FIU, but given my accident, it was unclear I would be able to do it. It was a class that I thoroughly enjoyed last year. Not teaching would have been another loss for me. Thankfully, I was discharged from the… Continue reading Courage and Love
Regaining Trust
When there was a break in our rainy weather today, I got a chance to walk our yard. We live in a tropical hardwood hammock. As I turned the corner of our lot, I smelled the familiar damp earth, the gumbo limbo, oak, and mahogany leaves decomposing mixing with the oxygen exuding from the trees.… Continue reading Regaining Trust
Growth after Trauma
By the time my students reach my classes at Miami Dade College many of them (research shows from 66 to 85%) have experienced a traumatic lifetime event. These events range from the death of a loved one to physical and sexual abuse. These numbers clearly go up as we get older. I see this as… Continue reading Growth after Trauma
Why Practice?
I was perplexed as I looked down the street from us and noticed one of our neighbors mow his lawn. We had just emerged from our boarded houses. Days before we were worried South Florida was going to disappear into the arms of a Hurricane Irma. He carefully mowed his lawn leaving perfectly parallel lines… Continue reading Why Practice?