Spring Training For Golf Goddesses

Do you imagine physical exercise when you think of Spring Training?

Discovering How to 'Become A Golf Goddess challenges this belief system by focusing on a more holistic approach, a training (or preparedness) of not just the physical but the mental, emotional and spiritual aspect of a human being.

The Golf Course is a great way to learn about Human Behavior and it reveals an unbalanced system in the way golfers prepare (if at all) for the upcoming season.
For the past 12 years I have been the President of the Original Yoga for Golf. At the get-go I was a pioneer in combining the body/mind conditioning for golfers. In the early days golfers would think of Yoga only as a fitness component and were surprised at the connection that yoga had on training the mind.

That is how I came up with this quote many years ago that is on my YFG website:
“Golf is more than a Game,
It’s a State of Mind.
Yoga is more than Stretching,
It is Mastering a State of Mind.”

Most people these days are educated in the fact that yoga means union, it is a joining together of the body, mind, and spirit. More information on YFG www.yogaforgolf.ca
Now,To understand how I have incorporated all parts of a person so they can live and play Happier, more fulfilled and heart-centered games there has been FOUR Discussion Board topics added;

Preparing the Body
- Understand the Power of 'The Dailies"-The 60 second Stretch-
- Doing a small amount of fitness over time yields large results. This is the way the Olympic Athletes train.

Preparing the Mind
- Writing Down Golf Goals
- Starting Vision Boards

Preparing the Heart
- Gratitude Golf Games

Preparing the Spirit
- Playing in the Rhythm of Nature
- Discover a feminine way to play which leads you to the Great Mystery and more synchronicity!

To read all these in full please go to the Facebook Group, (the first Link at top of this Blog), while visiting you will learn more about the upcoming book! 'How to Become a Golf Goddess'

Any questions on Becoming a Golf Goddess, Let me know how I can help?


Margarit Brigham

April Fools Day

A lovely piece on April Fools Day

"The bitter cold winds of winter are a recent memory as the shining Sun brightly beams our way into April (this is a bit of a stretch given yesterdays winds and cold!) This is the astrological New Year and for centuries April 1st marked the New year for most of the world. When the current solar based Gregorian calendar was introduced, the New Year lost its affinity with the Zodiac. It took almost 200 yrs for the calendar to be accepted and instituted.
A few centuries later, echoes remain from earlier celebrations of joyful newness during April.The grass is a tender, fresh green, trees are budding and singing birds return to court and mate. We are giddy with delight, foolish in our desire to celebrate the sunshine and blossoming growth. We celebrate the April Fool.
April Fools Day, April 1, is a lighthearted holiday of practical jokes and laughter. Even though the origins are murky, some evidence indicates that this holiday of mockery and joking began while the calendar was changing. The fool mocked those who were laggard, resistant to change.
The idea of foolery and jesting is a time honoured and sacred tradition. In several Native American traditions, there are tricksters and sacred clowns whose path is to teach through humour and disruption. Joking, mockery, and the antics of the madman shake people out of their habitual thinking and actions moving them into new relationships with the sacred and with spirit.
In Europe, the tradition of the jester and fool is widespread, stemming from a time when there was no free speech. The fool was considered a twin soul to the royal leader, though one touched with childlike madness. The insanity was considered a sacred condition, a touch of the divine, and it exempted the fool from the normal rules, laws and codes of conduct. The fool was able to say things, point out incongruities and contradictions, and reveal hypocrisy. He did it with laughter, wild antics, bawdy jokes and rude language. In many cases, jesters and fools were the only ones who could tell the ruling classes some hard facts.
In our lives, the class clown performed these tricks for us. Modern comedians also look at life in a slightly askew fashion in order to point out ways to change. This is not always a comfortable or safe role - jesters and clowns often came to a bad end. A lot of times, our beloved class clown wound up in detention.
Folk and magical traditions tell us of the magical times and places called "betwixt and between." Neither this nor that , betwixt and between are times and places where normal rules do not apply- the place between, the normally unseen worlds give us tantalizing glimpses of what is, what was and what is to be.
April, from its first foolish day onward is just such a magical time. Each new day - with its tender green shoots, fresh blossoms, and birds on the wing is the the time between childhood and adult. We can tap into our own inner fool, allowing the laughter, jesting and disruption to jar us out of our winter pathways and depressions. We can move our awareness inward to that tiny bright spot of madness to find where desire and delight touch. In that gossamer place, we find our way into remembered innocence, laughter, mirth, and joy. Refreshed and enlivened, zany fools, we walk out into the sunshine ready for the next grand adventure and bright new season.
This is a time to see things with fresh eyes and to hear songs as if for the first time. We are rediscovering magic, reawakening to the world of light and beauty. We are between the past and the future. We are the fool."

-from the Llwewellyn's Witches calendar
The piece is written by Gail Wood
Have fun today being the Fool!