Grounded deeply, I flow. I'm feeling into winter vibes. The place where winter flows and where it grows still. Taking in winter sights, sounds, smells, taste, touch. How winter holds and let's go. The slowing down, increased need for sleep and space in my body and being as winter gently arrives. Have you noticed any… Continue reading Winter Vibes & Offerings
The garden is a refuge, a place of quiet contemplation, a source of nourishment for mind and body alike. -- Dean Pailler My garden is nature, books, love, laughter, fruits and vegetables, and coconut milk ice cream. It's writing and yoga and the vibrant life intermixed with the sounds of vibrant silence. I nourish myself… Continue reading Mind, Body, and Soul Nourishment
You only lose what you cling to.— Siddhārtha Gautama photo by Daisypops1. *** I wanted you to make a jar for certain dark sections of the heart... and a jar open on all sides -- a freedom jar -- that would hold only what wished to be held. -- Stephen Dunn What if… Continue reading variations on letting go
Close your eyes. Forget the realities, the obstacles, the fears, your mind, and just listen to your heart. What do you want right now in your life? What do you need? photo by Ben Heine. *** You can give yourself anything you need in life. The thing is you have to know what you need… Continue reading close your eyes and live…
If you want to be… let go. Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be… In the end, we discover that to love and let go are the same thing. Both ways do not seek to possess. -- Jack Kornfield *** My old apartment had a spot on the living… Continue reading letting go is love
If we are to reach real people in this world... we shall go from love to love and peace to peace until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering. -- Gandhi Is the whole world… Continue reading Love until all we are is love…
I went to a Manifest Your Life yoga workshop in New York City with Jennifer Pastiloff, a phenomenal Los Angeles-based yoga teacher. I first discovered Jennifer after reading her moving article about fear in Elephant Journal. I have had few yoga experiences that felt as complete as this workshop. It was the perfect blend… Continue reading Manifest Your Life
Today marks the start of YIOM or Yogis Inspiring Oneness Month, a month-long celebration of yoga in April 2011. All my blog posts for YIOM will be labeled in that category. The concept was created by Lorin from The Vegan Asana and over twenty yogis and bloggers have signed up to write about an aspect… Continue reading the yoga off the mat
