Sama-Life

03/11/2025

✨ The Four Divine Abodes in Buddhism ✨

This week's Buddha Doodle is inspired by the Brahmaviharas, also known as the Four Immeasurables or Four Divine Abodes — states of mind that help us cultivate love, wisdom, and compassion for all beings (including ourselves).

🌸 Loving-Kindness (Metta) — The sincere wish for the happiness, well-being, and safety of all beings.

✨ How to practice: Pause and silently wish a loved one (or yourself) to be happy, safe, and well — "May you be happy. May you be safe. May you feel at peace."

🌺 Compassion (Karuna) — The deep, heartfelt response to suffering — a desire to ease the pain of others and ourselves.

✨ How to practice: When you see someone struggling (including yourself), take a deep breath and gently say, "This is hard. May you (or I) be held in kindness."

🌈 Sympathetic Joy (Mudita) — The ability to truly rejoice in the happiness and success of others.

✨ How to practice: Think of someone who recently had something good happen. Take a moment to celebrate them in your heart: "I’m so happy for you!"

🌿 Equanimity (Upekkha) — A calm and balanced mind that holds both joy and sorrow with steadiness.

✨ How to practice: When life feels overwhelming, pause and say, "Things are as they are right now. I can meet this moment with calm."

Together, these four qualities are like essential tools for a kind and open heart — helping us ease anger, jealousy, and indifference, and expand our capacity to love.

💫 Which one of these feels like it would bring you the most balance or joy right now? Pick one to focus on this week and see how it shifts your day-to-day moments. 🌿

01/06/2025

💕I am regenerating 💕

REGENERATING

I don’t think you’re simply tired,

I think you’re regenerating.

Like all of mother nature’s children in winter, your instinct is to curl up, hunker down and reset.

You’re not less.
You’re simply in tune with the sun.

And as the dark days begin to wane, your inner wild fortifies and evolves, bolstered and renewed, cocoon-style.

Ready for the new beginnings, ready for the reinvent.
Ready.
Simply ready.

So, let yourself be led down the rabbit hole, when the weariness washes over and your body begs to rest.

I don’t think you’re simply tired.
I think you’re regenerating.

Donna Ashworth

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Art by Lucy Campbell

01/05/2025

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10/01/2024

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HELLO OCTOBER
THE SEASON OF LETTING GO

And so begins the season of letting go,
when Mother Nature shows us all,
how it’s done.
Let go,
free yourself,
shake it off,
drop it,
give way for the new.
Create space for new thoughts, new ideas,
new adventures and new connections,
by shedding the dead weight you’ve been carrying around,
for so long.
And whilst you are there, being reborn and renewed,
let go of old anxieties too.
Let go of any doubts, fears or beliefs which no longer serve you well.
Release bitterness or past hurts which feast on your beauty.
Be brave,
Don’t fear the nakedness as your leaves slip away.
Mother Nature doesn’t,
watch and learn.

Donna Ashworth

Art by Martin Eager Runique.

08/06/2024

Love this 💕

02/09/2024

Love 💕 this

YESTERDAY’S RUBBISH

As sure as night follows day, pain will follow joy.
As sure as summer follows spring, good times will be met by bad.
We each have our share.
And all you need to know is that nothing lasts.
Bad times, as is their nature, feel like the end.
They convince you you won’t survive another moment.
But you will. And you do. And you have, a million times before.
And it is perfectly okay to lament your misfortune, to beat your breast and scream why me.
We all do it.
But once that anger, that rage, has had its moment, be free of it.
Put it down, like a plate straight from the oven.
You will need the space, you see.
To welcome the new, when the storm is over.
Because all storms run out of rain.
All skies clear eventually.
And you won’t get your share of the good stuff, if you’re carrying yesterday’s rubbish.
See each new dawn as a chance to be free of the past.
New page,
clean slate,
hands-free.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘Wild Hope’
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🎨 Beautiful art by Marianne Faguy

01/12/2024

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01/09/2024

Cheers 🥂 to 2024
Wishing you a year of happiness, serenity, and health.
💕🧘Join us on the mat - classes start again January 15 🧘💕

01/02/2024

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m not for a moment,
expecting this to occur,
for that is not possible,
a year must be all things.

Happiness must come and go,
like the tides and the winds,
just as sadness,
and all the emotions in between.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you,
a baseline of peace,
of gratitude.

Because if you can sit with these things,
for the most part,
happiness will thrive,
when it does arrive,
and sadness will know its place in the mix.

If you can nourish these things,
daily,
you will also grow hope,
for it flourishes in such soil.

And hope is the key,
to this enigmatic state
of ‘happiness’ we seek.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you more happy days,
than sad days,
more joy than misery,
more laughter than tears…
and the wisdom to accept,
that they all belong.

Happy new year, my friends.
Happy new year.

Donna Ashworth

Beautiful art by

11/20/2023

Connecting with others gives us a sense of inclusion, connection, interaction, safety, and community.
Your vibe attracts your tribe, so if you want to attract positive and healthy relationships, be one!
Staying connected and getting reconnected feeds the flow of goodness which empowers our humanity ..

~ Susan C. Young ~

Artist Credit : Lucy Almey

10/09/2023

Class schedule this week:
Wednesday 10 AM & 5 PM
Friday 10 AM

10/04/2023

I did not do paddle board yoga this morning. 😱😀🧘