iCanYoga2, LLC

04/03/2026

'Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger.'

04/03/2026

🌸 Every inhale is a homecoming; every exhale is a gentle contact with life. Being mindful and present is the key to unlocking our peace, right here and now.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

03/31/2026

🌺 Peace Is Not An Escape From Life, It Is A Way Of Living Life - When we speak of peace, we do not mean retreating from our responsibilities or abandoning the good work we are walking toward. We do not mean stopping our plans or transforming ourselves into something we are not.

Peace means we continue living our daily lives—working, planning, caring for our families, tending to our responsibilities—just as we always have. The difference is in the quality of our presence.

With mindfulness, we bring the light of awareness to everything we think, do, and say. We still cook our meals, answer our emails, attend our meetings, care for those who depend on us. But now we do these things with a peaceful heart, taking time throughout the day to return to our breath, to arrive in the here and now.

This is the gentle practice: not running away from life, but arriving more fully in it. When we bring awareness to washing the dishes, the dishes become meditation. When we bring presence to walking across a parking lot, each step becomes a prayer. When we bring mindfulness to a difficult conversation, we speak from peace rather than reactivity.

And something beautiful happens. The stress that once accompanied our daily tasks begins to soften. Not because the tasks have changed, but because we are no longer lost in worry about the future or regret about the past. We are here, breathing, present, alive.

Everything we do flows from this peaceful heart. The work gets done. The plans move forward. The responsibilities are met. But now they no longer drain us—because we are doing them all with the light of awareness shining through.

We are not hiding from life. We are finally, fully, living it.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏✨

03/31/2026

03/21/2026

~ANAM CARA~

In the Celtic tradition, there is a beautiful understanding of love and friendship. One of the fascinating ideas here is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."

In everyone's life, there is a great need for an anam cara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home.

The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal.

—John O'Donohue
Excerpt from Anam Cara, the 25th Anniversary edition, here: https://amzn.to/3XL5DXA
https://www.johnodonohue.com/anam-cara
https://www.facebook.com/JohnODonohue.AnamCara

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

03/21/2026

✍️ Learning to Understand Our Anger - When storms of emotion rise within us—when anger floods through us and we feel lost or overwhelmed—our breath serves as a very safe anchor. Returning to our breathing helps us steady ourselves, ensuring we do not act from that heated place, and helping us find solid ground beneath our feet once again. This practice is incredibly important for our daily peace and clarity.

However, if we rely solely on calming ourselves without ever truly seeking to understand our anger, we will never fully transform it. Without clearly seeing what our anger actually is, where it comes from, and why it arises, we can never truly free ourselves from its cycle. We will be troubled by it again and again, for as long as we avoid looking at it directly with a brave and open heart.

After we have practiced the habit of pausing—after we have learned to look back at ourselves instead of seeking to blame or retaliate—we can take the next vital step: observing the anger itself. We do this not by fighting it or judging ourselves, but by simply watching it with gentle, curious attention. We can observe the entire process: from the moment anger first surfaces, through its peak intensity, until the moment it gradually fades away.

We watch it the way we might watch clouds moving across the sky—present and aware, but not trying to control what we are seeing. As we gain experience with this kind of observation, something remarkable happens. We begin to discover that anger is not as solid as it feels in the moment. By maintaining a non-judgmental attitude, we gradually see clearly what created the anger. When we see it clearly, transformation becomes possible. This is how we move from simply managing our anger to actually freeing ourselves from it.

May we all find the courage to observe our anger with kindness and understand it deeply enough to finally transform it into peace.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏✨

03/21/2026

'Anytime you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls over for others to manipulate.'

02/16/2026

This was of the most humble moving moments to me. If you missed the end of this historical event here it is again. I cry every time I watch it. 🥹☮️💜🕉🙏🏻🕊👣🐶🐾❤️
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🏻

02/16/2026

Check comments as this will be on YouTube also. ☮️💜🕉🙏🏻🕊🐶

🕊 Invitation to All Volunteers and Everyone - Journey Reflection & Special Announcement on February 16, 2026

We warmly invite all Walk for Peace volunteers and everyone to join us at Hương Đạo Vipassana Bhavana Center (4717 E Rosedale St, Fort Worth, TX 76105) today (Monday - February 16, 2026) at 9:00 PM CST for a special ceremony.

We will listen together as the venerable monks share their reflections from the Walk for Peace journey, along with an important announcement. Afterward, we will welcome the Lunar New Year together until about 1–2 AM.

We will also have livestream available on our page and on our Youtube channel (pinned at top of our page and in the comment section)

🏮 Lunar New Year Celebrations

We also warmly invite everyone to come to the temple during the Lunar New Year celebration days! Everyone is welcome to join us for all of these joyful events at the temple and to receive blessing bracelets from the venerable monks. Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara and the venerable monks will be at the temple during these days to welcome everyone.

This is a wonderful chance for us to gather together during the Lunar New Year days to celebrate a peaceful new year together. Lunar New Year Program poster is shared in the comment section.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏✨

02/16/2026

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🍀 May the light of mindfulness illuminate everything—our thoughts, our words, our actions. With this clarity, we begin to see what truly nourishes life and what depletes it. We recognize that wholesome choices bring happiness not just to ourselves but to everyone around us, while unwholesome ones spread suffering like ripples in still water. And seeing this clearly, may we choose wisely. May we choose the path of wholesomeness, living in ways that bring joy to our own hearts and light to the lives of all we touch.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

02/15/2026

Dragon....☮️💜🙏🏻🕉🕊