Oh Love

The merging of my policy & yoga selves

This past weekend was the pre-launch for an organization I'm helping found to train teachers to teach yoga in schools.

It's the confluence of my education policy self and my yoga self and I am so excited about it!

Tonight I attended my first of the weekly group meetings held by the organization, and before the meeting I went with one of the other founding members to a yoga class near her apartment.

It wasn't my style of yoga -- heated room, powerflow -- but the instructor was awesome. At one point, I stopped to rest in child's pose and he came over and pressed down on my low back and then ran his hands up my spine to my neck.

It felt incredible, and after class I thanked him for that gift and told him I knew I loved him from that moment. And I'm kinda serious. He may not actually be my next love -- he has a girlfriend, for starters, and there are many things I don't know about him -- but if he isn't, he is a beacon for the kind of man I want to be with. Super present. That's at the top of my list.

Here to help me mark my return to love are my pals from Green Day:

Oh Love, oh love
Won't you rain on me tonight?
Oh life, oh life
Please don't pass me by
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop when the red lights flash
Oh ride, free ride
Won't you take me close to you

Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
I'm wearing my heart on a noose

Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
Tonight my heart's on the loose

Oh lights and action
I just can't be satisfied
Oh losers and choosers
Won't you please hold on my life
Oh hours and hours
Like the dog years of the day
Old story, same old story
Won't you see the light of day

Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
I'm wearing my heart on a noose

Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
Tonight my heart's on the loose

Talk myself out of feeling
Talk my way out of control
Talk myself out of falling in love
Falling in love with you

Oh love, oh Love
Won't you rain on me tonight
Oh ride, free ride
Won't you take me close to you

Tonight my heart's on the loose...
Tonight my heart's on the loose...

Yes it is, and the freedom feels so delicious after so much time in a noose!