To tweet or not to tweet...

that is the question.

So I’ve been hearing about Twitter for the past few months and I just couldn’t wrap my arms around it. First of all, why would anyone want to broadcast their daily routine and thoughts out to the world? My first opinion of Twitter without having ever gone on to the site was that it was another ego-based, self indulgent application.

Last week, with some prodding from my techie husband, I joined the world of Twitters. I sheepishly posted a short profile (see below) and my first “tweet”. (basically just a text message to my followers of which I had none)

Then, through some simple searches, I found a couple of interesting folks out there to follow, Lance Armstrong, Tony Robbins, Steven Covey and Time Magazine. And I waited.

The tweets started coming in. I received a quote from Steven Covey, some current events from Time, a reflection from Lance Armstrong about his ride that day in Aspen. Pretty cool, I thought. Connection and union, isn’t that what yoga is about? And so I posted another innocent tweet and hit send.

Within 48 hours I had 15 followers. Included were people from the around the globe that I never met and couple that I know. Again, pretty cool.

Still not completely sold on it, I spent some time on a recent hike pondering how to use this application not as a way to tell people about my fairly uneventful life but rather to connect with yoga students from Verge Power Yoga and beyond. What would I want to share with others?

Well, in class, I often talk about “bridging” your yoga practice to your daily life. I call it, Yoga off the Mat 101. There are so many rich opportunities in our daily lives to practice yoga so why not name them? Why not talk about them? Why not “tweet” them?

I know that my challenges are probably your challenges. Your moments of glory are probably my moments of glory. Let’s connect and tweet about it!

You follow me and I’ll follow you. Yoga off the Mat 101! I realize that there can only be good that comes from connecting with yogis around the world.

So check out www.twitter.com and follow me @caraverge (that’s my id)

Peace.

Cara Bradley, soccer mom, yoga teacher, trying to keep the ball in the air every day.