The dissatisfied mind wanders here and there seeking satisfaction, until it is allowed to find ease via yoga and meditation in its source.
This is quite a homecoming party–the mind coming back to itself.
This new year, with regular practice, bring your mind home to itself again, and again, to its resting place.
There is great peace and joy and bliss in bringing the mind home.
May yoga and meditation help you open and explore new opportunities in the new year ahead.
May the practices help you have greater inner peace.
Through your yoga and meditation practices, may you find joy and love and bliss to share with those around you.
No matter what your age, may you feel more alive this new year.
Namaste! The light in me honors the light in you.
In the year ahead, may we continue to explore this light together and share its gifts!
It’s not you. . . . It’s me.
That thing I’m doing that you think has to do with you.
That is just how I am, how I’m being in the moment.
Don’t take this personally. . . .
There is no contentment in a world of shoulds.
There is no ease when nothing is okay as it is.
What do you hear as you breathe in and breathe out--
the breeze rustling the leaves,
ocean waves. . .
winds winding through steep canyon walls?
Connect to your breath.
Feel the cool air rushing in
and the warm air streaming out.
Give yourself a breather.
This is yoga!
*in yoga or meditation
There is no courage without fear,
no fortitude without vacillation,
no joy without sadness,
no pleasure without pain.
Our open heart can no more rush away any of these uncomfortable “guests” than the sky can rush “undesirable” weather through it.
Our ego thinks otherwise!
The perfect in the imperfect is just about. . .
perfect.
The steady and loving heart holds it all like the sky holds the clouds.
When life no longer “fits,”
find a tailor to make the “adjustments.”
*and meditation
There is this peace we share
that is no more ours than the air
we breathe.
I've been so busy searching for it, . . .
and it's been here the whole time
right in front of my very nose.
Practice your yoga and meditation.
It will eventually tame your unrest.
And you will see the peace
that's been here the whole time!
The steadiness of yoga is always with you, . . .
like the breath,
with you for a lifetime,
both on and off the mat!
The Every Day Yogi 