Where there is perceived abundance, there may be gratitude.
But more importantly, there is abundance where there is gratitude.
Cultivate your gratitude and live abundantly.
Cultivate your eye for abundance in the most humble,
and you will be abundantly grateful.*
*In yoga, we cultivate santosha or contentment as one way to care for ourselves and to align with our Self.
When we hold a baby, many of us can’t help but feel how astounding life is–feeling its force emanating, throbbing, flowing from this young life.
Take this adoring embrace to life itself and to the life force.
Meditation and yoga help clear away that which occludes our feeling of connection to this flow of life within us and in all of life.
Next time you find yourself up against the wall...
why not go to the wall,
and try some yoga poses?!
Click on the links below for some poses to try at home:
https://www.yogajournal.com/practice/8-ways-use-wall-yoga-practice
https://www.yogajournal.com/poses/plug-into-wall-recharge-4-soothing-restorative-poses
https://www.yogajournal.com/practice/legs-up-the-wall-pose
https://yogawithadriene.com/legs-up-the-wall-viparita-karani/
Space is not empty...
but full...
of space!
What are we abundant with when we feel space?
Through your yoga and meditation practices,
become a space explorer!
Life is a creative act. That’s probably why they call it creation.
Through yoga and meditation, we may become intimate with and feel our unity with this creative force or energy–the source of our being and of life itself.
In amazement, we grow silent in its awesome presence, WOWED into silence!
Oh sweet, sweet stillness in meditation,
you have no end!
May your silent echoes permeate the day.
A cluttered mostly unused room stacked with our young adult’s child, teen, and college years “artifacts,” all things that were once useful, we have cleared out, keeping what’s still useful.
A sort of museum of our previous years, fossilized relics of our past life.
We cleared out what no longer fit our lives–what really no longer served us–donating it to charity.
We are transforming this unused room, quite fittingly into a yoga room.*
We got rid of what no longer served us, making space or room for that which is new, for what can and does serve us now.
This cleaning out of the room has been a sort of yoga in itself–a letting go to create space, the space of possibilities, space for transformation
*Tomorrow the hardwood floors go down!
Fear and love can teach each other so much.
Love can listen to fear’s warnings of danger, and parse out the farfetched and exaggerated, learning to take caution in consideration of potential “dangers.”
Fear, bound up in itself and unable to act, can become untethered by love’s free and adoring ways.
In balance, they can make quite a dance team, filled with the majesty of thoughtful risk and the freedom of uninhibited love in action.
Bringing positives like compassion, love, or respect to “negatives” like sadness, pain, fear, or anger alters the energy, bringing greater balance.
Light illuminates darkness.
Bring happiness to sadness, comfort and relief to pain, courage to fear, and patience to anger.
A warm, slight smile to all!
The slightest changes can be the most significant… like one domino falling….
We meditate and do yoga to be open to such shifts and/or changes. Â These practices open our eyes, hearts, and beings to the most subtle.
The Every Day Yogi 