Yoga YAY

01/31/2025

Just updated!

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ~ Rumi

01/15/2025

11/03/2024

This was an important day. The below poem was read in my yoga class this morning. Between that, and a strange woman reaching over and taking my hand out of kindness, I broke. And I needed it.

Enjoy:

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of
wonder and grief.

The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of memory forming their web around the knot in my throat.

The breeze makes the birds move from branch to branch as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh
of the next stranger.

In the very center, under it all, what we have that no one can take away and all that we’ve lost face each other.

It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured by a holiness that exists inside everything.

I am so sad and everything is beautiful.

~ Mark Nepo

(Thanks to Susan Garcia 🙏🏼💙)

10/25/2024

Read louder! 😀🧘🙏

07/04/2024

Poet Emily Dickinson on the value of small actions:

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."

Source: "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking"

04/10/2024

We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves— the heavy-duty fearing that we're bad and hoping that we're good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds-never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away trom being fully awake.

Looking at ourselves this way is very different from our usual habit. From this perspective we don't need to change: you can feel as wretched as you like, and you're still a good candidate for enlightenment. You can feel like the world's most hopeless basket case, but that feeling is your wealth, not something to be thrown out or improved upon.

~ Pema Chödrön

03/03/2024

My spiritual journey has been from the rigid to the gentle 🙏