Jess, Sarah, and Darren. Having fun on the beach and doing acroyoga and avocado beach scubs. :)

 

Living in the Moment

"Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you."-Eckhart Tolle

I am really happy that I decided to come back to Kalani,  I didnt know if I would come back after I left last time, I thought that there were so many other places to go and see and that I had already "done" Kalani and the Big Island.  But for some reason when I was thinking about my travels and what I was going to do I found myself buying a ticket to Hawaii and coming back to Volunteer for a month at Kalani again.  I know that it was for a reason.  New volunteers that I haden't even met yet were saying "welcome home".  ahhh what an amazing place.  There are many new faces and also some old friends that were here last year as well, how great to reconnect in this place.

Sarah came to visit for 10 days!  It was so fun to share my life here with her and she was able to have a great vacation (I hope).  We had alot of fun.  Went on an adventure into a lava tube that took us out to a cliff looking over the ocean, scary and awesome!  Went camping with Darren on the Kona side and we saw some great beaches.  Got to spend time with another friend Jessica over there.

Its amazing how things come together when you just let it go, when we were getting ready to go camping on the other side of the island, we got a car to rent the night before, on the morning we were leaving we were walking around Kalani searching for our camping supplies and within about 5 minutes we were offered a tent, sleeping bag, a bottle of wine and a few brownies. How perfect!

Another exciting thing that is happening.  I will have a set of paintings up for auction at the Urban Yoga Spa's 1st anniversary party/benefit for Boys and Girls Club.  They have some great things up for auction, I just looked at the list.  Check it out, should be a great event...

http://www.urbanyogaspa.com/urbancouture_rsvp.html

You can see the paintings that will be there on my painting blog...http://brooke-acreativesoul.blogspot.com  its called Karma.

Just trying to soak in every day and enjoy every moment as it is going by so fast.  I cannot believe I am leaving here March 8th!  Really excited for Thailand!

Also, a friend that I met here Megan is going to come with me to India and do the yoga training, it will be great to have a friend and travel partner! 

Me and Darren have been doing a little bit of AcroYoga, he took a workshop in Peru so hes been teaching me a little.....thats what we are doing in the pictures....

ALOHA!  Lots of Love!  Until next time....

Brooke

"Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One with Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you."