The Happy Home

 

Hello In Betweeners! Happy New Year! This is so exciting! I’d like to tell you a little about my amazing New Years Eve experience. It was one of those beautiful days that will shape the rest of my year. Here’s what went down:

Yesterday, I headed to Chicago for my Second City orientation. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Second City, it’s a world famous sketch comedy school. It’s where Tina Fey, Jim Belushi, and Bill Murray (among many, many other comedic geniuses) have studied. Walking in those doors, I figured I was in for a sarcastic, joke filled, “pick on an audience member” kind of orientation. I mean, it’s a comedy school, aren’t they supposed to be all about making fun?

I never really thought about the term “making fun” but that’s exactly what they do at Second City. They make life fun. That place is about pure surrender and joy. It’s also about togetherness, community, and creativity. It just so happens that this highly enlightened group of individuals works within the parameters of comedy sketches. I knew I was drawn to this place for a reason, but I had no idea that it was going to jive with the path I was already on in such a meaningful way. I figured I would learn how to write a few jokes and that I would learn how to make fun of the world. I never imagined that I was going to be learning how to make fun in the world. Score!

Then, I went on to one of the most memorable and life enhancing New Years Eve nights that I have ever experienced. Instead of spending my new year drinking too much, kissing a stranger, feeling gross about it, and starting off the year with a massive hangover, I cashed in my chips and signed up for a NYE gathering at a yoga studio I had never been before called Turbodog Yoga. They teach Forrest yoga, which I had never practiced before. It’s amazing. It’s a practice that’s devoted to personal growth. The lovely instructors were very hands on. They use their hands to instruct the air in your body where to go and making a ton of adjustments while they teach you about your body. Double score!

After practice, we had an amazing pot luck picnic and moved onto an intention and goal setting ceremony that was out of this world. It not only aligned me with what I want to do in the coming year, it also gave me a new sense of power and joy that I’m really spreading around today. We used ceremony to determine our goals, their implications, the things that usually block us from achieving goals and we made concrete plans to fully realize our goals and intentions.

It was awesome! And I have so much more to tell you… but alas, we’re out of time again. Bah! P.S. Does anyone know how to make more time?

How was your NYE? What are your goals for the new year?