01/04/2022
I left the house today feeling drawn downtown to get some food and see who’s out and about …after an amazing meal at the I walked around and into to check out the band that was playing …looked around and was just about to keep walking through when I saw this familiar face …my very first Yoga teacher …the amazing Annalisa Cunningham! It’s been well over 20yrs since last I saw her and took a semester of classes with her through Butte College. It was this woman that helped open my heart and mind to so much …after the semester was over I had a couple of cassette tapes with her 40min Stretch & Surrender class on it and another that was a Chakra meditation session…I used those tapes (and later an updated CD) for 10yrs before I ever did any other kind of yoga …in fact I thought that her class WAS yoga full stop …didn’t even bother to look and see if anyone was doing anything different because I assumed it was all basically the same …how cute I was! 😂 Then when I moved to the Bay Area from Seattle I was introduced to Hot Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Power Yoga, Jivamukti yoga etc etc and shortly after finding all these styles/genres I jumped into my first YYT 200hr …now in my 6th certification training since my first and approaching over 1000hrs of training and well over a 1000 classes taught I’m back in Chico teaching at just blocks from where I took my very first classes with Annalisa all those years ago…she used to set us up in a big circle …and my main class now is called Full Circle Sundays w/ Chrys and you guessed it ..we set up in big circle ⭕️ 🥰🙏🏼✨ I seriously can’t be more thankful for crossing paths with such an incredible human being like Annalisa…her energy and way of teaching effected me in such a deep & profound way that still reverberates through my life today. Thank the universe for this sweet alignment today so the two of us could chat a little and I could cry tears of joy on my teacher’s shoulder and say thank you, thank you, thank you🥲🙏🏼✨
“Salutation to the noble Guru, who by bestowing the knowledge of the Self burns up the bo***ge created by accumulated actions of innumerable births.”
