About Kaleidoscope Notes

Hi there! I'm Sara Arends Haggith.

A student recently asked me, "After your first few yoga classes, why'd you keep going?"

Ah yes, my first classes... I signed up for a semester of Introduction to Iyengar Yoga in college. As we moved through standing poses each week, my legs trembled, trying to hold me up.

I was a college student who lived in my head. And starting to move in new ways and take up physical space in this body was so challenging and painful. The pain of outgrowing who I'd been and literally stretching into the future.

So, what did keep me coming back again and again?

It was Śavāsana.

During that first semester, I glimpsed a calm, a peace, an inner silence, like I'd never experienced. It felt like a return to something beautiful. A remembering.

And now almost 20 years later, this practice continues to challenge and bless me. And I love to share it with others!

I'm a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (Level 2 CIYT from the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the US.) And I've been teaching since 2012.

Over the years, I've come to learn that I am my own best teacher. Just as you are yours.

Connecting with our body and mind and emotions through movement, action, and breath creates space to slow down, pause, and observe what's here right now. And from there, we can take the next right action.

So, Why Kaleidoscope Notes? Because I love notes. And I love witnessing the beauty all around us. Keep on scrolling if you want to read some more love notes to both.

🖖🏻✌🏻
-sara

What's a Kaleidoscope?

A kaleidoscope looks like a telescope from the outside. And when you look through it, tiny pieces of colored glass or plastic reflect off of mirrors creating ever-changing patterns of colors and shapes as it turns.

The word Kaleidoscope comes from the Greek words

• kalos: beautiful
• eidos: shape or form

and the English -scope: to view or observe

To observe beautiful shapes 💖

What are notes?

• tiny handwritten letters you tuck away in a beloved's lunch
• a piece of scrap paper (or an app) to catch ideas before they move on to the next human
• lists, lists, and more lists: wants, needs, to-do's, to-dont's, desires, dreams, seeds
• observations of what is (from your pov)
• recording concepts from lectures and talks and classes and videos and books and articles
• making connections. idea maps
• journaling, prompted or unprompted; seeing your thoughts on paper
• emphasizing ideas that are super interesting, unreal, important to remember, or quite simply, fun

And my fave note as a verb definition from Merriam Webster:

note verb: to notice or observe with care

Notes are information filtered through our current awareness. What am I noticing right now? What am I learning? Where is my attention at this moment?

Notes are a glimpse into what we're thinking & dreaming into existence. A snapshot of an idea in a moment in time.

Kaleidoscope Notes

Kaleidoscopes create ever-changing works of art. Every time you look through one, the reflections you witness are never the same. There may be similar patterns and colors. But each turn produces a unique form, a moment in time never to be replicated.

And notes are the same. They are written during a moment in time, never to be replicated in the exact same way.

May we explore and expand the beauty within our hearts, minds, bodies, and beyond. Ever changing. Ever beautiful.