Fun with a fabric pen

What you need: an old tank top or a tee-shirt or whatever you want to write/draw on, and a fabric pen (any color I used black). Draw a little bit and voila: fresh uplift to a regular tank top. I drew the OM symbol and rocked it to my yoga class. I will defiantly create more. I love it. You should try it, for yourself or as a gift for someone. People really appreciate hand made things! Have a great day!

The beautiful Miss Love

My graphic design classmate and friend: the beautiful Cassandra Love inspired my itch to create with my camera just by passing by in the hallway of the school, outside one of my classes with her hair straightened out. She usually wears it curly, which is gorgeous. But something about her that day, gave me an instant vision :). So we hit the photo studio and spent a few hours just diving into the pool of black and white photography. She is such a talented, business minded young woman that will do big things in this world, watch out for her. This is one of the photos from our session. More to come! Enjoy it. Thank you for taking a look at my blog.

Yoga & Leadership Intensive in Miami

I had the opportunity (thanks to supporting family, great mentors at my school and a generous scholarship award from the organization itself) to fly down to Miami and attend a specific leadership training that I have been wanting to attend for about three years now. Usually this training occurs during the fall semester, somewhere in the Cali-area, far far away from where I am and always during the very busy school times when I cannot go. This year OTM's Leadership Training was taking place in the month of May when the school semester was over and I was truly lucky to attend. IT WAS MY TIME and MY TURN to experience this! It was a Yoga, Purpose and Action Week-long Intensive for yoga teachers, community leaders, and activists, or anyone interested in making the world a better place, really. Hosted by the lovely yogis: Seane Corn, Hala Khouri, and Suzanne Sterling. Ever since I was a child I have been wanting to make the world a better place and I tried to, in my own small ways. Guided by my heart and hearing the calling of nature and animals I would offer free community cleans ups in my neighborhood, cleaning up everyone's back yard whether they wanted to or not. I was so connected to Mother Earth I felt like I was giving her a scalp massage when i was crating the leafs of the lawns lol. I picked up trash, candy papers, cigarette buds and fallen leafs and placed it where it should go. If I was riding my bike and saw a road kill, I would stop and bury it wishing it to rest i peace. Very connected to nature and animals. Will my calling be something that has to do with the environment or animals today, Im not sure. But this particular training was designed to help us see our path in which we want to take our yoga to the next level. It was an opportunity to for one to discover the connections between the yogic path and the way of divine service or Seva. -During 5 days in sunny florida, yogis from all over the country (and other parts of the world too: France, Greece and Canada was in the house, and hello: SWEDEN!) experienced a combination of yoga asanas, meditation and visualization, experiential exercises, process work and rituals with the practical tools of communication, organizing and collaborating and we all grew so much. I made new friends and left with skills to help me become a more effective leader and agent of change in the world. Some of these amazing people that I met are all ready agents of change in the world, some are just starting and some will start in the future. Terri Cooper (owner of 305 yoga studio in Miami and the reason for this taking place in Miami) has one cool story that you should check out: www.yogagangsters.com. Amazing what one can do with will and determination. She is one manifesting b*&%#h. Hehe. Im veyr inspired. This intensive was really...INTENSE....very deep. There were days when I thought to myself: "What have I signed up for now". It was alot of crying, releasing and laughing. Mixed emotions. I learned alot. How to effectively communicate with myself and others (ongoing process for me as I have not been the best communicator and one of those people who prefered to not confront anything but rather retrieved in)). I learned crazy amazing tools for dealing with trauma and how to stay WITH my experiences fully present. Seane Corn is a "star" and amazing at what she does. Learning from her is always expanding my consciousness. I had never before met Hala Khouri or Suzanne Sterling and therefore I didn't know what to expect but let me tell you WOW. What a perfect combination of leaders. They all are so different and contributed so much with their own unique voices. I learned so much from all of them and I am so inspired to spread the vibrations that was cultivated within me and within us all during this intense week in Miami. )What exactly will be my calling, is not yet clear to me. But in the mean time I will serve where my service is accepted. IT IS TIME FOR SEVA! ( Selfless service of the world) NAMASTE! I also got to re-connect with an old friend from Sweden who opened her doors and welcomed me in to her house for a week. It s always great to re-connect with old friends! But it was even greater to come back home to my castle and my King! Borta bra, men hemma bast! as we say in Sweden :D

MeiVisions Yoga Photography

A few goodies from my shoot with Mary Fraser- yoga instructor. Good luck with your website and promotions Mary. She is a really strong yogi and a great teacher. Namaste!

Leslie Marsh - book binder

Today I had the honor the meet Leslie Marsh who made a guest appearance in our class. She has her own unique style of binding books with metal and mixed material. I was really inspired by her work, these books make extraordinary gifts for anyone- anytime. Apparently her biggest clientele are men (!) who buy gifts for their women (or so they say, maybe they just really think these metal books are plain awesome, because they are). They are out of my price range,a medium sized book can be yours for about $300. There is a lot of different material that goes into making one book: metal, beads, thread, photography, jewelry, resin, mica, found objects, leaves, poems, paintings etc. And it was really cool to hear about her painting and welding processes. Before she started book binding she was heavily in to scrap booking which one can see in her work. I have never been into scrap booking but I might be now haha, for I was really inspired by the books that I saw today, if you have not checked her website out you can do so here: www.leslie-marsh.com Thank you for taking a look on my blog!

Book Binding

This is a sneak peak of my children's book called "Shoot For The Moon". It's about a little boy who discovers yummy, positive thinking and the power of dreams. This was all written and illustrated during a period of three weeks, for a school project in my Printed Word class. It is bound with chip board, book cover fabric,and screws and bolts to keep it all together. A children's book will be created and published in the future, this is a strong interests that is calling my name and something I look forward working on when I have more time on my hands to do so. The bottom image is an image of a note book I created with a classical Japanese stitching technique (glue-free, something I prefer). For now please enjoy this sneak peak. Thank you or taking a look at my blog.

Winter, yoga, roots, LOVE

Tomorrow I am teaching a Vinyasa Yoga class in my hometown up north in my beautiful Winterland aka Sweden. I am so happy to hear that the class is fully booked and 30 something plus, happy people will be joining me in celebrating the new year and setting the intention for the year of 2013. Reconnecting with my roots and sharing yoga with my base community is a graceful experience. I am very excited about tomorrows class, let us peacefully walk into the new year guided by our hearts. As the ninja of love Jimi Hendrix said it: When the power of love overcomes the love of power- the world will know peace. NAMASTE