by Samantha on May 12, 2010
When we are shattered, pieces lie everywhere, our shards creating new prisms of light. At rare times these fragments are born of bliss, but more often they are from the implosion of unfathomable sorrow. At the very least, pain is honest. It keeps us on track even as we stumble. There is something very centering [...]
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cleansing,
endings,
Forward Fold Pose,
hamstrings,
Kapha,
light-beings,
new journeys,
Paschimottanasana,
shattering,
steadfast,
Taurus,
Vata,
venus
by Samantha on April 18, 2010
Andrew Harvey writes, “Man is the astrolabe of God, but it requires an astronomer to know the astrolabe.” When Harvey asks us to become astronomers it is so we may know, and reflect the cosmos. We possess this incredibly delicate and precise instrument that can measure and understand every layer of being, but we’re not [...]
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abs,
Aires,
Andrew Harvey,
astrolabe of God,
Becoming Astronomers,
colitis,
death,
digestion,
hamstrings,
layers of divinity,
malabsorbtion,
Marichyasana I,
Mars,
organs,
paradigm shifts,
Pitta,
polarities,
stretches,
Surya,
twisting
by Samantha on February 14, 2010
I wrote this ‘Breath’ for a couple of long standing, who are enduring the death of one. I felt myself in their place, in their depth of love and loss. I wept with the carelessness of my loving, my wonton assumptions that it/we/I would always be wonderfully thus. Now this letter is for all of [...]
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broken hearted,
forgive,
golden stillness,
shared grace,
unspoken
by Samantha on January 29, 2010
‘Obsession’ has become merely an expensive perfume, whereas in the good old days, it connected us to the persuasions of the devil. “Impelled by evil spirits” was one of Webster’s explanations for being obsessed. Perhaps in becoming modern the devil loses its teeth? Or, has it sunk them into our soft necks where we daub [...]
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Aquarians,
astringent,
chest-lung openers,
desire driven,
devil,
extravagant,
fixed air sign,
Front Body Stretch Pose,
heart expansion,
heart of dreams,
Jan 29 2010,
Kapha Dosha,
Obsession,
pungent tastes,
Purvottanasana,
Quixote,
stretches,
transformation,
winter