Yoga By The Pool At SunDog House
As often as possible, before the sun gets high in the sky and before we have breakfast, we enjoy approximately 30 minutes of calming yoga. I love to stretch all of my muscles and quiet my mind before facing the day. It has been a tremendous help in minimizing the effects of the hormonal fluctuations of menopause. I’m still frequently moody and spacey, but not nearly as bitchy as I was just a few months ago before we started our regular yoga sessions, which is not to say I’m not bitchy. It’s just not as bad.
Some days, like today, the birds are very active. We can hear at least a dozen different calls. There are the musical songs of the pearly-eyed thrashers, the king birds, the mockingbirds and the zenaida doves; the urgent cries of the kestrels, the killdeer and the least terns; the raucous caws of the night herons, green herons, little blue herons, the great egrets, the cattle egrets and the guinea fowl; and the chirps and buzzes of the sparrows and bananquits. There are often rooster and peacock crows carried by the wind.
Hearing all this makes me incredibly grateful to live where we do. I love the lack of the artificial hustle and bustle of cars and people. In its place we have the natural sounds of the real world. The world that was here before us and continues to provide for the myriad creatures who do their part every day to keep their species’ thriving.
They work really hard. Every day.
They inspire my respect and admiration. And they deserve it.
July 7th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I wish I could do that but I am wound too tight. I have stolen mental yoga where I live in the moment and control breathing. You do live in a wonderful place.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Our little valley used to be only green. Now there are many new houses and lights that shine in at us, and thankfully not too much noise. Perhaps the development has contributed to the new Kestrel nest in our big kenip tree. The parents are very loud urging on the fledglings (sp?) as they glide around.
Would love to have cameras on their nest – which we can’t see, it must be in one of the broken limbs – and also the Hummingbird nest in the almond tree right above the parking area. There used to be a Sugar Bird nest on the back deck but I think a rat tore a hole in the top and now they have taken away the materials.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:14 am
I’m more then jealous as I sit in my office in Newark, NJ :O(
Life is not suppose to be like this…….
July 9th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Come on down, Dan!
SunDog House is open through August. We’ll close it to guests during the height of hurricane season, then re-open in November.