Hello, I am “Catnip”. A writer, mother, teacher, student of life, yogini, and also a baby blogger 🙂 I am currently traveling through Spain and will be volunteering in 2012 in South America, culminating with a yoga teacher training course in the spring. Meanwhile, as you might have noticed, I am writing about it all! I hope to turn some of these public musings into a travel memoir when I am done. This blog “pre-exists” my book; hence the title! Peace to all!
PS My writing and a lot of other really cool stuff appears on the virtual pages of elephantjournal. Check out www.elephantjournal.com and you will be glad you did!
Pre-Existing Condition 
Hi catnipkiss! Love it. The site and you. I’m on the rebound from my site where you stopped over, not that it matters but your age is not listed.
I will be around.
Thanks, GND 🙂 I am 48, at least until next February……
catnipkiss..i hear you and sex w a moving object is something i can totally relate to..venture on..i will keep reading…botticelli in waiting
Ha, it’s an ongoing theme, isn’t it? Thanks for reading, Sandra!!!
Hi! I just discovered your blog through your article on Elephant about wanting to be a yoga teacher. I loved it!! I am about to turn 52 and am about 2/3 of the way through my yoga teacher training. I have desperately wanted to converse with someone my age about all of this! I love my mostly 20 something teachers and fellow trainees, but sometimes I ache for the understanding of one who knows something of what it is like to be in my older body, who has the perspective of raising kids, living through a career, etc., all of those things that may come with 50 years of living. I have been amazed at the depth of discussions I have had with some of my young cohorts and surprised by the fact that it often doesn’t matter how old we are. But, sometimes it does, for me at least. I really related to your article about why you want to teach. I entered my training after having discovered the joys of yoga about a year before. I fell so head over heals in love with what yoga did for me, mind, body and soul, that I wanted to immerse myself in it. As my training has progressed, I have realized that I want to bring the joys of yoga to those who may not have access to it or think they “can’t” do it. I want to bring yoga to mental health clinics, community centers in poorer neighborhoods, overweight people who don’t believe they can move that way. I don’t really envision myself up in front of a class of young, hip, very fit yogis, at least not yet. I am so glad I found your blog and can’t wait to read about your journey through training! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings here!
Dottie
Hi Dottie! Thanks for reading and commenting! I would love to hear about your yoga journey too (i’ll send you an email at your above address and we can keep in touch that way if you like!) I have been doing yoga now for about 7 years, just after my divorce. It has changed me in some really crucial ways and I am so happy to make it a stronger part of my life. What I’ll ACTUALLY do with my training…… who knows? It’s all part of the journey!
Wonderful blog 🙂
thank you, I try to keep it real…. 😉