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Big news from Irie and the Caribbean!  The wind is blowing me west.  I have been here a year.... awesome!  I have loved being here, being warm and floating in the turquoise sea.  I had two main pulls here: Being with my Beautiful daughter Glory and leveraging my finances to 'get out of debt' (my continuing yoga ed debt which I am soooo grateful for ).  Glory has decided to move to work to pursue her massage therapist goals and I am now 'OUT OF DEBT'.  My goals here met, I'm realizing I need a bigger yoga community and doors have opened for me in Hawaii, Big Island. 

Sorry more of you didn't get to visit this fun, culturally rich spot while I was here, but I will be cruisin through Ashland, Aug. 15 - 25 on my way to Hawaii and maybe I'll get to see more of you there.  Looking forward to seeing yall who are in Ashland during that time and riding my bike, soaking in Jackson Hot Springs and teaching some yoga (any ideas where and when?) giving privates (any interest?)

If any of you know of or are massage therapists and are looking for an adventure/job op... let me know and I'll connect you up out here.... need Nationals.

Big Blessed Love and Aloha,

Iris

April,2007 - Upon return from the Virgin Islands in March 2007, I found many things in life had changed in Ashland, Oregon, where I was living. In looking at how to respond to this change, the opportunity to move to St. Croix became available. I have been knowing that a semi-retired lifestyle in a warm place is on my horizon and the wave has come. I am surfing the wave of my life to a new zone. An epic adventure before the finale.

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Oct. 15

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Sept. 10th

Semi retired update.... when I moved here, I used the word 'semi-retired' without really knowing what it was going to mean for me.... I am oncall at a spa, 4 days a week 5 hours each time re: Massage Therapy (pulling on previous career skills).... when I'm done with work I come home and I don't have work on my mind.... The folks that come to be served are mostly tourists who I will never see again, and I get to surrender to the light in them as I massage them, which pulls through their perfect healing, and I love it!

I have time to meditate and asanate, beach it and walk it to my hearts content.... I meet folks as I walk and talk.... I'm teaching small, word of mouth yoga, organically growing groups of 3 at my apt. on a donation basis.... and we'll see where that goes.... once the tourist season comes, end of Oct., it will take me three months to pay off my continuing ed. (Yoga) debt.  I would be paying that for 2 years If I was still in Ashland.  This move has been magically supporting me in ways I couldn't have projected.  

The pacing here, for me, supports relaxation and being in the present.... Being open to what presents itself.  I love and miss all of you and particularly the one voice, the one love radiating  through our practice together and the chanting at the beginning and end of class.  As far as my next step spiritually, this move has supported a change befitting this developmental phase of my life called 'semi-retirement'.  I don't have to strategize every few minutes re: what workshops to teach to serve and survive.  

Soon I will take more pics and include myself and post on my web and give you a heads up re: that.  I just wanted to share joys of Semi-retirement!

Blessings to yall, iris/irie

Jan. 2, 2008

I just completed a 11 day work cycle and am experiencing the grace of two days off with no schedule.  Glory was working on a charter boat over the holidays and one of my co workers wanted to go home for the holidays, so I took 3 of her shifts.  I ended up working 6/ 10 hour days (that's massaging straight with 10 minutes between clients to change the sheets) at the height of busy season.... this old gal made it and am alive to tell the tale.... what a meditation and yoga practice.... staying with the breath is a lifesaver re: endurance and turning anything into yoga.

As I was walking to my beautiful job on this beautiful island, feeling grateful, I thought that anyone can make anything work for themselves with the right attitude.  I feel sooo supported by my universe, and I don't really think it has to do with where I am... though I am here now and that's the truth.  

Back on my regular more civilized schedule, glory will be back Jan. 6 and I will begin a 5 week yoga teacher training intensive with 3 sincere souls, including my daughter.  This session will include 5 classes a week, a workshop a week and a 3 day silent retreat.... very fulfilling.  When the prices to get here are cheaper, maybe in Sept. 2008, I'm planning to bring Dvorah here to teach a Thai Massage retreat and I will teach Yoga.... anyone interested in that? If you are interested in a yoga retreat here with me, let me know and when.... I'm feeling a wave of planning for that! 

It's 9 am here as I sit at a corner cafe and, as I'm thinking of you it is 5 am where most of you are.... the sun rises in the east so I get it first and watch it continue on to you....

There are some new pics posted on my web site.... Kate, glory's friend from Ashland High School, came and visited and she took so many great pics while we were tourists with her.  Winn, my friend from Ashland, will be coming here Jan. 15 - 24 and I will have a little vacation here on my island when she comes.  Come visit so I can have a vacation and we can practice yoga.... 
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Blessed Love to Yall,

Iriema (iris)