New Year, New Visions

It has been over a year now since I have been here on Kauai. So much has changed and the dreams of living in paradise have evolved into the reality of living on an isolated tropical island. I moved here with what I thought were clear intentions, to find a simpler life and enjoy the beauty and grace of nature.   
But simplicity is complex, and beauty and grace are in the eyes of the beholder.

So we have begun a new year, and I have begun my second year here on the island. Without going into detail, let me just say that at times this island has made me feel beaten and broken. In achieving a simple life, there are layers that need to be stripped and exposed, and for a highly over-thinking and over-processing person, this simplicity creates complexity and intensity that only exist in a very true and honest space. My yoga has been my 'safe place' and the place where I can simply be and exist without judgement. Without it I am not sure how this journey would have evolved, perhaps I would have fled by now.
In fact I am sure I would have fled by now...

But it is a New Year. And I have a new clarity and vision of what this journey is all about for me. I still have work to do here, and I still have layers that need to be exposed and healed. And there is beauty and grace here that I have not allowed myself to behold for I have been looking beyond the simplicity and into the past and future and not experiencing the reality and beauty of the present moment and its countless blessings.

So here, in the New Year, I am recommitting to a vision, a vision that I created for myself that I somehow lost sight of. I had clear intentions once upon a time...but once upon a time is a fairy tale sometimes. I have a vision and intention of vision and intention, simple or not.