Online Class Notes (Jesse) [28]

Vocabulary

root canal 

wilt 

Pronunciation

molar

gum – close your mouth on “m”

crown
clown

filling / filler

pole

tendonitis 

Grammar

check every teeth – check every tooth 

Vows

I choose you.

Love lives with nature, not with lust.

All the ups and downs, positives and negatives, dark and light, I choose love.

We fully accept who they are and decide to still be together, love is my choice.

We all love flowers, and even when they wilt, we still love them and appreciate them. We love the complete person, not the good or perfect sides of them, we love them completely. We love the complete package. When flowers blossom, we rejoice and we’re full of happiness, but when they wilt we don’t see it as a failure, but rather as a part of the dance of life, and as part of the complete circle.

People always say you should choose to marry someone who completes you, but in fact we are all already whole, with all our good and bad, ups and downs, and when we choose to share a life together, we share our wholeness and enjoy each other in all ways, and we choose to love with all of our hearts.

So, I, Heidi, choose you, Alex, my lovely little flower, to be my (husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, when you are both blossoming, and wilting, when your petals are bright and dull, when you are dormant in fall, and full of life in spring, I will love and cherish you, forever and ever until neither of us can do a handstand / until we both go to the next life / until our last shivassana.

To all my beautiful friends, my new family, and dearest teachers – thank you so much for being here. Welcome to our wedding.

Thank you to my mum and dad who couldn’t be here today. To my mum, thank you for trusting me enough to let me marry a guy who you have only said less than 10 sentences to over facetime and never even met face to face, she must think I’m marrying some alien or perhaps even a figment of my imagination. In all seriousness / but seriously, she said if we have decided to be together, we need to close the gap and be together in person… but I know my mum loves me and would be with me every day if she could, bothering me by barging into my room without knocking just to ask me how to download some app on her phone, so for her to encourage me to leave and follow my heart, is really special to me and makes me know how much she loves me. So it’s a bittersweet time for her and I want to thank her from the bottom of my heart. Thanks mum.

Richard and Mary, you are my dearest teachers, and guardian angels / my parents from another life. You guys like the things I like, and support me in everything I do, and give me space whilst keeping a watchful eye over me. – maybe add a story about a time they kept a watchful eye over you or someone else – I know you were on your trip in Thailand, enjoying the sand and sun, so thank you so much for coming back to be here today, I appreciate it so so much.

At a really difficult time in my life when I was both emotionally and physically injured and terrified that it was maybe going to be the end of my yoga career. I had a severe neck injury which meant that I couldn’t do many postures, and I remember one time I said to Richard that I was so scared that my yoga life was over… and he just said to me “yeah.. I’ve had that same thought many times before…” which in that moment was so helpful to me because I knew he could understand me and he had complete confidence that I was going to be fine. The wisdom and sense of humor that Richard injects into my life makes learning with him such a joy for me… he is always able to teach me so effortlessly, and knows how to say the right thing at the right time. Mary, you’re so compassionate… I’m sure you remember that during the time I had that same injury, I was doing a shoulder stand with you and the pain was so incredibly intense that I had tears running down my face, and Mary, you came over to check on me and help me to take some pressure off my shoulder and I could just feel the empathy and emotion coming through you at that moment and it just warmed me to know how much you cared.