Yoga with Lezlie

05/05/2025

Good technique !

12/20/2023

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the impact of posture on our quality of life, including causing chest pain, and provide a practical movement solution to alleviate discomfort.

Read more: https://montgomerysomatics.com/posture-can-it-cause-chest-pain/

08/04/2022

A favorite poem.

Poems I liked - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary...

08/04/2022

What happens when you move into shavasana? By opening into this state of pure relaxation post practice, quieting the nervous system and slowing down your physical body, we free up energy. The benefits? Tension drains from muscles that are ruled by the autonomic nervous system, giving us access to the energy formerly locked up. So when you come back you feel refreshed and ight

06/02/2022

Theme of the Month: Light, Color, & Transcendence

Tune in to the Light in your Heart, aligned with the radiant presence of Transcendental Being. Restore us we pray to the Holy world of helpers and spirit friends who are here to benevolently uplift. May our shatters be swept away by your glorious display. May the power of Light to restore Life and Love, to brighten our Souls, miraculously illuminate us. Thank you Great Spirit for Rainbows.

Celebrate Light, Color, & Transcendence in this month’s offerings:
Full Moon Ceremony >> June 14 @ 8pm ET
Member’s Virtual Art Church >> June 28 @ 7pm ET

CoSM Calendar >> https://www.cosm.org/calendar

Seraphic Transport Docking on the Third Eye, 2004, acrylic on wood panel, 11 x 14 inches.

06/02/2022

To live with an open heart... (-from my book, ‘Hearticulations’)

10/29/2021

Self-Compassion Phrases ✨

• May I be kind to myself in this moment.
• May I accept this moment exactly as it is.
• May I accept myself exactly as I am in this moment.
• May I give myself all the compassion I need.

06/19/2021

05/15/2021

05/15/2021

We’ve all heard the old adage, “It’s better to give than to receive.” And, surely enough, many of us have great difficulty in receiving - praise, help, love and support. Perhaps it is because underneath this seemingly pious phrase is the suggestion that to receive is to be the weak one, the ...

04/23/2021

"The worst thing we ever did
was put God in the sky
out of reach

pulling the divinity
from the leaf,
sifting out the holy from our bones,
insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement
through everything we’ve made
a hard commitment to see as ordinary,
stripping the sacred from everywhere
to put in a cloud man elsewhere,
prying closeness from your heart.

The worst thing we ever did
was take the dance and the song
out of prayer
made it sit up straight
and cross its legs
removed it of rejoicing
wiped clean its hip sway,
its questions,
its ecstatic yowl,
its tears.

The worst thing we ever did is pretend
God isn’t the easiest thing
in this Universe
available to every soul
in every breath"

~ Chelan Harkin, in poetry book 'Susceptible to Light'

Art: Autumn Skye Art
“Mycelium Dreaming”

04/23/2021

In Praise of the Earth
Let us bless
The imagination of the Earth.
That knew early the patience
To harness the mind of time,
Waited for the seas to warm,
Ready to welcome the emergence
Of things dreaming of voyaging
Among the stillness of land.
And how light knew to nurse
The growth until the face of the Earth
Brightened beneath a vision of color.
When the ages of ice came
And sealed the Earth inside
An endless coma of cold,
The heart of the Earth held hope,
Storing fragments of memory,
Ready for the return of the sun.
Let us thank the Earth
That offers ground for home
And holds our feet firm
To walk in space open
To infinite galaxies.
Let us salute the silence
And certainty of mountains:
Their sublime stillness,
Their dream-filled hearts.
The wonder of a garden
Trusting the first warmth of spring
Until its black infinity of cells
Becomes charged with dream;
Then the silent, slow nurture
Of the seed’s self, coaxing it
To trust the act of death.
The humility of the Earth
That transfigures all
That has fallen
Of outlived growth.
The kindness of the Earth,
Opening to receive
Our worn forms
Into the final stillness.
Let us ask forgiveness of the Earth
For all our sins against her:
For our violence and poisonings
Of her beauty.
Let us remember within us
The ancient clay,
Holding the memory of seasons,
The passion of the wind,
The fluency of water,
The warmth of fire,
The quiver-touch of the sun
And shadowed sureness of the moon.
That we may awaken,
To live to the full
The dream of the Earth
Who chose us to emerge
And incarnate its hidden night
In mind, spirit, and light.
- John O’Donohue
(To Bless the Space Between Us)