If I want a different perspective I move.

What I mean is, in order to have a major shift in my mind, I need to let my body shift.

I’ve been hiking a lot lately. It’s a major blast of endorphin-alia

alia is a suffix i use to turn something into an adjective, so as i was getting blasted with endorphins I thought of all of you, the you’s that come to Yoga classes, the you’s I see all the time, the yous I have not seen in a while…..and it was so amazing on that mountain today that I wanted to share it with all of you.

The sounds and the smell and the color, so much green flooding every sensory organ.

It is when I’m jamming through those trails, rock hopping, for that moment, I understand how it might be possible to be a breathetarian, this is where you simply live off air as your main food source. Crazy, right? Up there in those mountains, I could feel the nourishment, the feeding of every cell taking place. This is the real super food, all those phyto-nutrients completely bioavailable, ah it’s gorgeous.

So today was Rattlesnake trail, it’s a beautiful trail lush with Oaks, Butterfly Sage, a heavy flowing stream, wild sweet pea’s….normally I just go to the meadow, but today i convinced myself I could not only make the steep climb to Gibraltar but I had the time to do it! Such a treat.

If you just make it to the meadow, it’s not “just”, it’s actually brilliant, there is a great big rock i like to lay on and do yoga and meditate and the landscape is lush, cascading mountains on every side.

A truly magically moment, made me laugh and squeal out loud, and I was alone……I was coming up the trail to Gibraltar and I spotted a fall I had never seen before across the canyon and as I was admiring this fall flowing right off the side of upper Gibraltar from the exact direction I was facing the fall, north,  snow started to fall, snow! I could see the flakes floating through the sky and the big front of clouds that were carrying it, all dark and ominous to the north, while the sun was shining and the ocean was sparkling with blue skies to the south…..

It was one of those moments, the power of nature working her way into every pour of my being, reminding me how very very small I am but powerful all at the same time…..

Go visit Rattlesnake Canyon trail now, or at least very soon.

love

nicole