Thoughts Provoked On Breathing
Dear Wayfarers and fellow travelers, I am in need of help, your fine perspicacity, your thought-filled-feedback. ‘Tis Scorpio’s season, and in her required depth charge I have returned to questioning the why of it all yet once again. It is not a serene Yogic-place. It is swampy and stanky, filled with odors of discontent and fear. [...]
Read more No Serenity/No Surrender
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The dark life remembers What it lives without. The shadowed psyche undresses Strewing torn garments Across grass, flattened by first frost, As the bone white sliver, Pushed by damp clouds, Rises in twilight indigo. The imagination unfolds, Excited by lost affection, hapless wounds, Careless words of what we idolize And demonize, What we pray for [...]
Read more Preparing The Celebration
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Last week the Breath was about karmic relationships, today- it’s physical relationships… of the body-type, and how we perceive those relationships among this/that/these & those. Body parts reverberate to one another in much the same way we vibrate personally to one another. Not only is the body in constant re-balancing left to right, but it [...]
Read more Mysteries of Relationship
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This fall calls for us to be clear about who we are, to be as authentic as we know how, and to unhook from what, and who no longer represents us. Life always demands this, but if we don’t, or can’t now, we shall be lost in the tsunamis of change. Few of us are [...]
Read more Karmic Connections
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All life connects/links/sequences/combines in some way, usually in many ways, on multiple levels. Sequencing brings continuous states of union and dissolution that inform and relay intuitive and conscious information. Part of the difficulty in forming these connections is the early training we received. When very small, were you taught consequences? Forgiveness? Friendships? Did you learn [...]
Read more Translating The Light
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Despite the dizzying sense of speed, the structure of fall’s equinox provides a moment of stillness, a symbolic cross road that divides the year into one of its four seasonal quadrants. Like spring’s Vernal Equinox, along with the Summer and Winter Solstices, Autumn’s equinox is an astrological transition when we open a door to the [...]
Read more Autumn’s Equinox
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If “the goal of the journey is to discover yourself as consciousness,” as Joseph Campbell said, then what revelations did this summer’s wing-ding of an Astrological force-field bring you? These past months of inner heightened intensity and emotional landmines, seen via the outer picture through ‘The Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami and nuclear spill, the [...]
Read more The Really Big Picture
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In late August Chromatic scales slur and thrum, Ricocheting tree to tree On a million Cicada legs. The scordatura made more brilliant by Layered crescendos of Skylarking bird, and squirrel in sharp exchange…. Except at Brahma Mutra. This first light of defining silence Is the conductor’s inhale, Arms lifted, finger extends ‘Wait-Wait-Hold Now! The arm [...]
Read more Last Summer Prelude
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One of my great teachers, Daniel Orlansky, quoted another great teacher, Osho, and I was reminded of my first great teacher, Helen. They have all said or demonstrated the same profound rule in different ways, but when something is completely true, it is true for all time and in all circumstances. This is one of [...]
Read more Good & Great Non-Commandments
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Wind moves the tall grasses, opening a slender swath at the spine of the hill. I trespass her narrow path, feeling her breath in my spine. Her inhale pauses, whooshing out in exhale. Our attunement grows so perfect she is the breath of my beloved, as I am hers. Every healing longed for moves between our [...]
Read more Yoga Drugs
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This hour is holy. Why? Because I choose to be wholly in it. No pun, please. Summer in New England is precious because there is never enough except when we stop to be it, to match our spirit to its own. Part of summer’s sacred-Self is that it removes longing for an unknown future. My [...]
Read more Time Brings Me Nothing
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Lacuna, what a wonderful word! It’s a particularly wonderful word at this time of year when we can be it, as well as see it. It’s meaning is a hiatus, or blank space- possibly as in a vacation. It can also be an intercellular space, and-or a small pit or depression, like those in the [...]
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The almost perfected-moon rises, Pale in late afternoon cloud Pinked with sunset’s reflection, Claiming her sky. From twilight’s descending lavender She grows dense and hard-edged, Her rabbit face pentimento revealed As Sol drops below the horizon. My almost perfected-Self Rises within Growing potent and full Despite forsaken promises Long gone dreams Dead-end journeys. Now, now [...]
Read more Full Moon Rising
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To be at one with Self we must have, and be at home in our own rhythmic archetype. We must be able to move with the flow inherent in our internal rhythms. Our early relationship with rhythm begins in utero where we are soothed with mother’s heartbeat, the pulse of her blood flow, even her [...]
Read more Musical Shape Shifting- Exploration of Teaching Modalities
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Sol Sistere It is now Gaia’s breathless moment, The standstill hour of homage To her consort’s shortest night, When only petals, Burnt by his heat, Fall, disturbing stillness. Sol’s perfecting creates Four quadrants, four teachers, four gifts Before turning toward Winter’s underworld descent Before falling from bright Grace Before death’s introspection. T.S. was right, “Here [...]
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Any major decision demands life-changes. Some we expect, others crawl out of the woodwork, and some fly in on angel wings. In my long considered decision to commit to a 500 hour Yoga certification, all manner of flying beasts have been let loose. Despite demanding more energy than expected, (Va sans dire.) it’s far broader [...]
Read more Shape Shifting /Part II
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With the need for increasing mental, emotional, and physical flexibility to see us to the other side of enormous change, I shall be writing on the helpful and subversive ideas and teachings of four talented Instructors. This week Aaron Cantor, followed by Daniel Orlansky, Jen Yarrow, and Shiva Rea. Spring opens the body from winter weight. [...]
Read more Shape Shifting-part I
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Osho wrote: “In a moment of meditation you suddenly see that you can move in two directions-either horizontal or vertical. The vertical consists of silences, blissfulness, ecstasies, the horizontal consists of hands, work, the world.” Sacred Recognition The western wind dropped away Carrying her last exhale out to sea Subduing blue-black chop, Prostrating cliff-grasses. Now [...]
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William Blake said in “Eternity.” “He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.” As spring’s haunting hour of splendor turns toward summer, ‘kissing the joy as it flies’ is a full time job. The only dance left [...]
Read more Unholy Alliance
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