A Good Excuse for Being Away

I got married!! Hence, my hiatus here on the blog and in my monthly newsletters!

A lot of people give advice when you’re getting married, and I found it breaks down into equal thirds. 1/3 of the advice is complete bollucks, 1/3 is good advice that you’re not going to take because it’s too late or doesn’t apply to you, and 1/3 of it is something you end up using.

The best advice we got? Try to be in the moment!! So many people told us the wedding would be a blur. Several women told us that they were still so busy coordinating on the day of the wedding that they weren’t really present. Lots of people said we NEEDED to have a videographer because that’s the only way we’d remember the wedding.

That was some bullocks for us – no video needed! Instead, we planned a lot and worked hard. For the actual weekend, Gadi and I were really *present* and the whole experience blew my mind. Lots of others seemed to have a great time too, which was nice, but it ROCKED for us. I remember everything so vividly! Of course, we’re also trying to write everything down and collect pictures from everyone, because we know someday we will start to forget.

Interesting right? That was what a lot of people missed about their own wedding experience – being in the moment – being present. For me, even though there was very little yoga asana happening in the week leading up to our extravaganza, we tried every night to debrief with each other and really soak it all in. It felt for me like a lot of my yoga training came into play each day in order to go with the flow of it all.

At 2am the night before our wedding, when I couldn’t sleep, I finally turned to the mat, and it felt SO good to breathe deeply. In general, the times when I feel most present in my life are on the mat or in the studio teaching. It’s a really familiar touchstone at this point. I knew in that moment on the mat, in the middle of the night, in a hotel room, the day before my wedding, that everything would be fine. Even if I was only getting a few hours of sleep before the marathon day of getting married (I had a good makeup artist to hide the circles if need be!).

Thanks to everyone for your advice, even if I didn’t take it 🙂 Hearing about other’s experiences was enough for us to really plan out our weekend so that we could be there with people who’d traveled hundreds (and thousands) of miles to be with us. And so we could really be there with each other, in the moment, as we made a big commitment! It was, for sure, a high moment in our lives!