{"id":8584,"date":"2009-03-25T21:08:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8584"},"modified":"2009-03-25T21:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:14:01","slug":"my-wishes-for-the-new-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8584","title":{"rendered":"My Wishes For The New Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always do what my teachers tell me and what my rabbis tell me and now I do what my gurus tell me.<\/p>\n<p>If their teachings clash, I&#8217;ll leave it to God to sort it out.<\/p>\n<p>He made me the way I am.<\/p>\n<p>Before we began work tonight on elimination, we wrote out our wishes for the new month:<\/p>\n<p>I am easily finding myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Moving deeper into Orthodox Judaism.<br \/>\n* Finding myself a place at two Passover seders<br \/>\n* Making new friends in Orthodox Judaism<br \/>\n* Getting back into Chabad Bais Bezalel, Aish Ha Torah, Young Israel of Century City, Beth Jacob and Bnai David-Judea<br \/>\n* Connecting to my feelings of sadness and loss<br \/>\n* Connecting to my therapist and working through my fundamental relationships<br \/>\n* Finding a means to pay my way through Alexander Technique teacher training<br \/>\n* Finding love.<\/p>\n<p>We got a homework assignment to make a collage of our wishes for the new year (a Spring Equinox Treasure Map).<\/p>\n<p>I may pass on this. My subscriptions have lapsed to the magazines I need to lay out my dreams.<\/p>\n<p>YogaLA just doesn&#8217;t cut it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Guru Luke signing out.<\/p>\n<p>PS. Kundalini Yoga is supposed to be practiced with the eyes closed.<\/p>\n<p>But if I do this, then I won&#8217;t get to see the beautiful women who inspire me to go to Kundalini Yoga.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a spiritual master to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always do what my teachers tell me and what my rabbis tell me and now I do what my gurus tell me. If their teachings clash, I&#8217;ll leave it to God to sort it out. He made me the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2354],"tags":[16394,29867,16974,15567,1132,16984,16985,30021],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-yoga","tag-alexander-technique-teacher","tag-beth-jacob","tag-fundamental-relationships","tag-kundalini-yoga","tag-orthodox-judaism","tag-passover-seders","tag-spring-equinox","tag-young-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}