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“I believe in the power of yoga,” says MPC YOGA FOR ALL founder Michele Priddy. “I have seen lives change, including my own, in deep, transformative and real ways.” Michele, who holds a Master’s degree in Special Education from Middle Tennessee State University and certification as a RYT-500 from Yoga Alliance, has more than two decades of experience helping adults and children of all ages and abilities reach their maximum potential. Her highly-individualized yoga classes, workshops and in-service training programs are more than just opportunities to for her students to move: they are transformational experiences made even richer by Michele’s deep understanding of yoga movement, breath work and philosophy coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of anatomy and physiology. In addition to teaching yoga at Middle Tennessee’s most respected yoga schools, Michele has led workshops for children with disabilities, teachers, social service workers, parents and others on a variety of topics including Yoga for Children, Yin Yoga, Mindfulness, Adaptive Yoga and Vinyasa Flow.

Friday, January 16, 2009

What Are My Motives?

I have been wrestling with my commitment to the next race... I was not sure if I wanted to commit to full marathon (26.2 miles) or a half marathon (13.1 miles). As those of you know that run, the training for a full is very time consuming not to mention the incredible discipline and determination it takes to actually complete the run. I am always amazed at the runners I read about that just love the sport and float through 70 miles a week with no problem. Yesterday I was reading about such a woman, Amy Burrow from Nashville, a master's runner(which means she is over 40) who is continuing to clock in 70 miles a week, get her degree in nursing despite a double hip replacement. Is she Wonder Woman? I admire her commitment to running as I know it must be a painful process. She stated that she just loved it.

Then a second though came to my mind. Despite the doctors advice, with a double hip replacement, was she just stubborn. What were her motives? I really have no idea her motives, it seems that it is just something she loves and she is not ready to give it up. This question has been a constant companion of mine as I go through the discerning process in determining the course God wants me to be on in my work with disability. What are my motives? This question has kept me humble. I search for the fame motive, and use that as a guide. If I am seeking recognition, fame and fortune then I am definitely doing the wrong thing as I seem to be getting very little of all three. I have gotten encouragement from others and have edited the efforts of others with similar goals to help me. Fortune has not come yet, but despite this fact God has provided and I continue to "act as if."

What is my motive? is a guiding question, one that keeps me on course and I am grateful for that. While running I know that I will never join the ranks of elite racer, but that is OK with me. Now I continue to put the fact that I will never join the ranks of "elite advocate" in the work I do with disability and most days that is OK.

Blessings and "Remember how great...the Lord is, and fight." ~Nehemiah 4:9
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