yoga on monday...

yoga on monday....

yoga vista 6:00 pm


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FEELING GOOD!!!!

Today has been the BEST day EVER since my surgery...I feel so good...I continue to be amazed by the food you bring and the love I feel from your food... I appreciate everything you are all doing...I feel so strong and happy because you are here supporting me!

I can't wait to physically practice yoga again...for now gentle walks soothe me...meditation continues to prepare me for life...the good and the difficult...

Much love,
Summer

sending love and healing to my friend Barbara

Dear Friends,

My friend Barbara needs your love and support ...through prayer or whatever you connect to that brings love and healing...you all have been so thoughtful and caring for me...please add Barbara to your lists of people we need to stay alive because there is more for her to do...she is a wonderful and loving friend to me and now that she lives in Tahoe...I don't get to see her much...I was going to fly there to be with her but am not able due to my own treatment...please join me to send her much love and courage...here is a copy of her letter to her friends...

Hello all,

My right liver lobe resection will be performed at Renown Medical Center in Reno NV at 730am this coming Monday, April 27. The surgeon will be removing the entire right lobe, removing the gall bladder and replacing as much of the bile duct as possible with plastic reconstructive tubing. He will also be opening the entire abdominal cavity to biopsy all other organs because often times cancer is not detected even with a pet-scan. My blood 'cancer markers' seem to indicate no further cancer growth or metastases but while he's in there, best he make sure. The surgery will take approximately eight hours with a week's stay. Paul is flying up to drive me home or I will be transferred to a skilled nursing facility if necessary. Since I am in Stage I cholangiocarcinoma, we are quite hopeful for a complete resection which will remove the tumor. Since this rare type of cancer is incurable by more common treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy, this is it. . . .I am feeling good. Increasingly fatigued since all blood supply is now flowing into the left lobe pushing my diaphragm up and creating a 'shallow breath' difficulty so I'm pretty much having to wait it out until Monday now.

All of you are very dear to me. I ask for your prayers because that is what I am relying on to get through this successfully and ultimately return (perhaps in August) to San Diego to finalize my hand treatment which has been such a blessing . .. .

Thank each of you for all your thoughts for me and the boys!

Love,

Barbara

Happy Earth Day!

I would love to share what one of my teacher's wrote about celebrating our place on this planet....

The Sakyong offers these teachings in support of Earth Day, this Wednesday, 22 April, and the work of the Touching the Earth Working Group of the Sakyong's Council.

Protecting the earth

A call to contemplation and action on climate change

Our precious planet and the innumerable beings who dwell here face an unprecedented crisis. The escalating threat to the world's environment and climate stem from a profound predicament that affects all humanity. We are ever more rapidly losing our connection with the sacred nature of our world. This tragedy affects us in so many ways, but at its heart, it is a crisis of the spirit. We are harming our planet and fellow beings because we are losing touch with the basic goodness of our own sacred being.

This disconnect from our primordial basic goodness is amplified by unparalleled technological and industrial capacity, dramatic population growth, and the vast inequalities we witness everywhere in our world.

Disastrous as this situation is, it is still possible to change course. The earth is calling to us for protection and for a return to basic sanity. We must all heed this call by adopting an approach that returns to a deep respect for our environment, and conserves our threatened resources.

We can take advantage of both traditional methods and innovative technological advances based on living in harmony with the fundamental intelligence of nature. But this global crisis cannot be transformed into a new way of living, if we rely on the same attitudes and habits that brought us to this terrifying brink in the first place. To do that would merely reinforce, despite our good intentions, the degradation and inequality that is already so widespread.

This emergency calls for a complete transformation of how we live -- a transformation of our underlying attitudes, our approach to human society, and our relationship to planet earth and all its inhabitants. My father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the great Tibetan meditation master and founder of Shambhala, foresaw this turning point in human history. His words could not ring truer: "When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world...healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world."

In the Shambhala tradition is it said that it is precisely in dark times like these that the inherent wisdom of the universe makes itself felt. Now is the time to draw on the inspiration of the humanity’s wisdom traditions. All remind us of the sacred oneness of life, the interdependence of all beings, and the inexorable laws of cause and effect. These teachings could not be more relevant to our collective imperative: the creation of enlightened and sustainable societies.

I am delighted that, within the Buddhist world, there is increasingly deep reflection on how the wisdom of this particular tradition can shine light on this common goal. Now is the time for us to tap the power available to us from our diverse disciplines, cultures, and societies to cultivate the dignity, confidence and fearlessness necessary to protect our earth. By doing so, we can help to reconnect all humanity with its primordial basic goodness, transform our relationship to sacred world and be inspired to sane choices, compassionate leadership and wise activism.

The Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche
Halifax
19 April 2009

(This announcement was from the Shambhala News Service)

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Much love to everyone!
Summer

WEEK off from treatment and Schedule

This week I'm off treatment!

I will be working all week and through Wed of next week...

I'm excited!

Physically, I'm moving very slowly and the only exercise I've had has been gentle walking...still recovering from surgery and the powerful chemo...yet...I feel ready to work...verbally inspire...I'm so happy to be able to even think about it!

Schedule this week:

YOGA

Monday night 6:00 at Yoga Vista tonight !!!

Thursday night 5:30 at Soul of Yoga

BLEND (private class) inquire if interested 760-707-7610

Tues and Thurs morning 9:15

Thank you for not coming if you're sick

Have a great day and I'll see you this week...

Ongoing thanks to those of you bringing food...amazing love in the food you bring...and delicious...

I also had my first "dive" in a hyperbaric chamber...very interesting...had to stop at a certain depth due to pain in my ears...hopefully...I'll get better at it...I had my first lesson from an 8 yr old boy named Carson...his experiences have humbled me...we never know when we're asked to step out and experience life in ways we would have never imagined!

Much love,
Summer

UGH and AHHHHHHH

Soooooooooooooo much pain yesterday...this crazy pain just comes on and won't release until I put a heating pad on my belly and sit very still...even breathing hurts...and then gone...comes on without warning and leaves without celebration...

I woke up this morning even better.. waves of nausea and then better again...this is the normal cycle now...

I'm going on a walk again ...right now...yeah...slow and yet wonderful...

Have a beautiful day!!!!

Summer

taking bigger steps...

Today is truly the best day so far since surgery and chemo...

I have finally felt like reading ...I'm so tired of TV...it's my friend when I'm super sick...I was getting worried when the housewives shows were actually becoming entertaining...don't worry ...it's the drugs...finally...I've come out of my stupor and I actually read outside and felt the sunshine on my body and could actually feel the vitamin D !

I have pain...I have constant discomfort...I'm nauseated most of the time..and yet...I'm doing well...I haven't taken any of the extra meds they told me to take...I only took the anti-nausea that they give you the day of chemo...a 3 day course after the big chemo...then a list of drugs that are supposed to help with this and that...I didn't take any of them...everyone is different...I want to feel what is happening to me and then I can decide what I may need...it's all so interesting...

I'm actually going to experience a hyperbaric chamber on Sunday...a friend is taking me to the place he goes to and we'll see what happens...

The juicing is going great...I LOVE the greens...craving them...check out Abdul and Tonia at " The Fountain of Juice" in Encinitas!!

See you all soon!!!

Don't forget I'm teaching YOGA at YOGA VISTA on Monday night at 6 pm...


Love to you,
Summer