Thoughts Provoked On Breathing
For some strange reason- the world decided to begin a new year in winter’s thickness, when natures turns in, and the north wind summons silence and long sleep. Perhaps winter’s slow and quiet offers needed space to review and consider how best to begin again? It takes fortitude, desire, and generosity to forgive and surrender [...]
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This time of year takes us into the dark, our inner core of sustenance, which does not have to be mysterious, but when given half a chance-is. As explored in last week’s Breath, we are in that straddling time of endings and beginnings, of work and celebration, of fall into winter, of questioning past results [...]
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We can choose to perceive the mundane as a grand, and weird mystery, or a boring dump. We can, and do, edit our viewpoints from multiple perspectives in every moment: spiritual, self-absorbed, short-sighted, hopeful, angry, in awe, confident, un-knowing, detached, add-on ad-nausea. As Buddha said, if you are sad, wait until the next breath. In [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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Remember the training wheels on your first bike? Or perhaps you were one of those without? You had the scabby knees to prove yourself a flyer. Starting out in anything, especially life, it’s a gift to have the support of training wheels, all kinds of wheels; those, who are the ‘wind beneath your wings.’ These [...]
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Repeating something the second or third time around can be maddening. It can also be gratifying if you note change, and growth. Repetition also offers moments for choice full response. This is often not true the first time we go through something. Many of us don’t know what to expect, or can calculate any yardstick [...]
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There are certain phrases, or words, even ideas in the English language fraught with oxymoronism, or imbued with moronic sensibility. Take ‘peace of mind’ for example. The mind is a restless, vibrating, multi-sensory-quivering jelly. There is nothing still or peaceful about it. We do not come to peace through the mind. If we find it [...]
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Second of three Breaths on connection. Last week I wrote of maintaining the dynamic center as we connect new and old. This week it’s about seeing the dots, for how we perceive something changes our capacity to do something about it. Last night I watched a show on mathematical fractals. Not knowing the first thing [...]
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Liquid amber light, Fallen from trees Too full to hold Indian Yellow- Cad Red- Burnt Sienna, Quivers the air, Drawn from a sky Tumbling up from the ground Exuberance imploding Leaving life layer upon layer. Some remain. I remain Wondering Will my death to be thus? A last leaf with jewel encrusted seams sewn delicately [...]
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Like all inversions, handstands are wonderful for happiness and confidence. Make sure arms and shoulders are strong enough to support you before attempting the pose. Move from Down Dog, placing fingertips 1-2 inches from the wall, and spread wide. Without moving hands, rotate upper arms out and up. Step into it on R, kick up with L leg, [...]
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When someone we love leaves, it’s their mess, the originality of their marvelous salmagundi that we miss. You don’t long after excellence, or do you? I find myself missing the quirky, mis-shapen oddness, that funny, off-centered way they had of arriving, then departing, their bizarre sounds, that pitch perfect flaw, announcing they were within earshot. [...]
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Science used to believe only humans had the capacity of intelligence. They also believed men smarter than women, white men smarter than brown men, and that animals could not communicate, nor birds remember. Our innate arrogance blinds us to possibility. Scientists are discovering it may simply be a matter of syntax. Like E.T., we must [...]
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Not to stand against men, or the men who wrote the biblical original ten. Not to declare myself as only a feminist. But what if the foundational ten had been written by a woman, actually it probably would have been, ‘women.’ Women tend to act from consensus rather than decree. They tend to listen first, [...]
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We should be getting used to the high levels intensity by now. We should be good at dodging the jagged shards of careless and mean-spirited output. We should have been able to wrap ourselves in a cocoon of safety against someone else’s chaotic decisions and quixotic changes that affect our lives. It ain’t happening, nor [...]
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When someone is our mother it is impossible to see her as a person. This is true of anyone with a title relating us to them, such as, boss, lover, or grandfather. When it is a convoluted, deeply-tied, and tiered relationship, there are powerful forces at work to keep us from seeing. Mainly, we know [...]
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The fact that this is a true story is un-important. The fact that I not only remember it many years later, and it continues to re-affirm and re-create an inner compassionate space, is its vitality. Once upon a time, twenty years ago, my newly wed husband and I flew off to Hawaii to escape over-amped [...]
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I heard myself whining the other day and thought, “You wuse.” I then had judgment added to remorse. All of that weight when I could have had a V-8. I could have had a ‘WoW’ moment instead of a whine-one. I was complaining that someone had backed out on my expectations. I could have seen [...]
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