I have just finished a conference call with my teacher Shiva Rea and the Living Yoga Sadhana group which was all about Diwali - the festival of the Lights. In the northern hemisphere the light is fading and everyone is preparing for the transition into winter and the darker months ahead. For this winter i will be in Spain and Italy, it will be my first southern European Winter experience and i hope not a very cold one! Since the Autumn Equinox the flow of life has been constant with moving house a few times, taking care of and feeding peoples pets as we house sit for a few weeks here and there depending on what is available to us. I also celebrated turning one year older with a day of no plans and no tension which was enjoyed thoroughly! The October weather in the UK has been very warm and welcoming with a Autumn breeze in the air and beautiful sunny days. As part of my birthday celebrations and leaving Brighton soon i initiated the Yogawoman documentary to be screened in Brighton along with a Yoga Trance Dance with all proceeds of the evening going to Holly's chosen charity Love is all we need. With only 3 weeks to organise it right from the beginning i was super surprised at how smoothly everything went, the people i approached to be involved were available and more then willing to help out. I really appreciate working with people who take initiative and and act upon things once agreed, it makes a difference when organising such a unpredictable event. By unpredictable i mean we had no idea how many people would come due to not pre selling any tickets just relying on word of mouth, flyers around town, facebook and email connection and the local community. So on the actual night about 30 Yoga Trance Dancers turned up and we totally rocked the space with funky beats from Michael Franti to Bass Nectar and about 80 people came for the actual screening! Thank you to the Happy Cell for their incredibly diverse space with comfortable couches and bean bags! The total icing on the cake for the evening was as the DVD arrived on the day of the event we didnt have time to test it with the projector so after testing it on 5 different types of Mac's and PC's it finally worked but the moment we pressed play it decided not to work... A quick restart fixed this and the screening had began close to 1 hour late then the advertised time! It was so great to have so many wonderful people under the same roof sharing a very inspiring movie. With a lifestyle of moving, shifting and change i find community is what i miss the most so when i can i try and create this where ever i go, this sense of belonging is so important and is something easily taken advantage of so a big shout out to all of you who are part of my community and i hope to see you in the near future but for now its almost time to relocate to Ibiza, Spain for a few weeks before teaching in Italy again. Why not join us for a long weekend retreat? Yoga Movement and Thai Massage, check www.yogarhythms.net for more details. Wishing you a smooth transition into the last 6 weeks of 2011!