Thanksgiving & Good News, Bad News

There is an old ancient story called “Good News, Bad News.”

So if you’re in the spiritual world, you may have heard these stories.  There’s a Chinese farmer and the farmer has one horse and a strong young son. The son and the horse do all the work on the farm. The horse has the plough and the son does the thing. So all, the whole household relies on the son and the horse. Well, one day the horse jumps the fence and runs away. Now the son is without the horse, the whole village hears about this and the whole village comes over to them and offers them condolences, “Oh my god, it’s so bad, it’s such bad news, I’m so sorry for you, that you lost your horse, oh my gosh.” The farmer says, “Good news, bad news, who knows?”


The next day, the horse comes back and following the horse are five wild mustangs he pulled out of the mountains and they all jumped back in the pen. Now this guy has six horses. A horse is valuable back then. Six horses now. The village hears about it, they come running over to celebrate with him and happy, “Yes, good news, good news, celebration!” And he says, “Good news, bad news, who knows?”

These are wild horses and they have to get broken and have to tamed, right? Taming a wild horse requires breaking the will of the horse. You’re not allowed to be a horse anymore, you’re going to be mine, break the will, they don’t like it at first, and then the son hadn’t broken all five horses. Well one of them throws him really far and breaks. He says, “Good news, bad news, who knows?”

The next day, the army comes to town looking for all able body conscripts to go and fight some stupid war. Well, he isn’t an able body, so the son gets spared his entire life because he had broken his leg the day before.

So you see where we’re going with this? That which what you think might have been the problem, actually a lot of times becomes a blessing or an opportunity. And that which you thought was a blessing or an opportunity sometimes may not be. Things are not easily categorized so we don’t want to make any judgments about good or bad or right or wrong. We just want to experience, experience without judgment.

Have a wonderful, thankful week-
Fred Busch


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Maraka Ewoi - Greatest Person and our Guide in Kenya

Elogita Maraka Ewoi is one of the greatest people i have ever met in my life.  He has influenced me in many positive ways as he does for all he meets!  I met Maraka in 1995 and we have been close friends ever since! Maraka and our mutual best friend Mboya are two of our main guides for the Africa Yoga Safari.

Becoming friends with these amazing people is a priceless opportunity.  We are supporting Paige Elenson's Africa Yoga Project as i will be teaching a huge Workshop in Nairobi on the last day! We will practice Yoga everyday... travel with our own chef... and be on SAFARI in a reserve that is very exclusive and wild.

We will be scouting for Leopards one minute...and walking to our Cabins the next.  This is the real thing everybody with an infrastructure of my best friends who are Kenyans who have experience guiding americans on Safari for over 18 Years!   Kwame my main partner is the owner of Shimei House our Nairobi base camp and we have been friends since University of Michigan in 1990's.

Going to Kenya with a better 'tour' i think is not possible!  Nobody could have arranged a trip anything close to this since we are using exlusively my connections throughout the entire Safari!  If you can't make it this year... Mungu Akipenda...Swahili for God Willing... you can make the next one!

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Yoga Teacher Training - Yoga Instructor Course Europe 2012 - Malta

POWER YOGA TEACHER TRAINING MALTA 2012

When: 18 February 2012 - 17 March 2012

Where: Junglespirit Centre, San Gwann, Malta

For more information about the program visit: http://www.junglespirit.org/beta/yoga-teacher-treaning

 A 4-week intensive yoga teacher training program on the sunny Mediterranean island of Malta provided by Fred Busch Power Yoga guru.  

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Become an International Certified Yoga Alliance Instructor. The 200 and 500 hours Yoga Alliance certified Power Yoga Teacher Training  is limited to 20 people. In order to book your place, first your application needs to be accepted.

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