Author: pmcrose

As we practice our yoga and meditation, our more relaxed and quieter mind, being more at ease, drops into the heart like a child going down a slide… happily!

Practice, and drop in sometime!

As we do what feels good in yoga–to our body, to our mind, to our emotions and feelings… energetically–as we feel these good things, we naturally let go.

We do not and cannot force ourselves to let go. When we feel love, we quite naturally let go… freely!

Do what feels good in yoga, and let go to love!

“I’m feeling so good I’m going home and treating my husband nicer,” remarked a newcomer to yoga at the end of class.

Remarkable, right?!!

As we practice yoga, we realign our body physically and energetically in poses; we focus on the breath while harvesting good (or better!) feelings and thoughts (in addition to firmer abs!).

Often unbeknownst to us, as we practice, we align our self more with the universal Self and it loving, compassionate energy, and we harvest love; we vibrate more with it.

Like the hippies made famous in the Summer of Love, we share this most freely with our family, friends, colleagues at work, and even with mere acquaintances.

Let this be your Summer of Love! See at yoga!

When I meditate and do yoga, this well-known song’s lyrics ring especially true.

Yes, yoga is poses, breath work, meditation, self-reflection and self-study, but the practices are also about so much more.

As we practice and the mind starts to get quieter, it naturally settles more in the heart. We grow calmer, more settled and centered in a universal love that resides in the heart of all beings.

Our practices, with practice, can become a veritable love fest! We can become hooked, literally strung out; we may even succumb and become a frequent “user.”

Yes, love is the drug…

See you at yoga!

As a yoga teacher, I feel a lot like a Jewish momma at the dinner table offering what she’s cooked up with a wanting smile, “Try it, you’ll like it!”

When I teach, I offer or teach poses and practices i.e. breath work and meditation techniques, and my students try them in class.

But do they help? Do they improve health and well-being? How do they help? Which practices help with what? This experimentation and reflection is the key to continued practice and benefiting from practice.

“Try it, you’ll like it!”… at least some of it… that which helps.

And that, my friend, is why I teach yoga!

Can you hear the flowers shouting for joy as they open?

Such joy and freedom as they twirl in the sun, motionless.

Such is the meditation energy we can discover in our yoga and meditation practices.

Such wonder pervades the opening of our hearts.

Care to take a twirl with me in that sun?

There’s a popular saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!”

The yoga mat is totally the opposite. What happens in yoga always leaves the mat.

However we are effected in yoga and meditation, however we are moved effects how we are off the mat. Transformed by practice, we are different. The benefits of practice that change us always leave the mat in what we do and in how we do it.

This, after all, ain’t Vegas!*

*And, might I add, it’s way more fabulous!!

Weeding is a bit like yoga.

Let it go too long and you know what your garden will look like.

The practices can help maintain our space for beautiful things to happen!

Yoga and meditation can make us aware of this ever-present gift that all too often gets shrouded for us all by the business and difficulties of life.

Through our practices, we slow down, we breathe, we take poses, we close our eyes and explore our inner landscape…. and this gifts that is always with us may become more apparent.

Through our practices, may we discover and explore this gift and share it generously with others through our lives.

A sunset… a towering redwood… we need to slow down to appreciate either.

Meditation and yoga slow us down enough so we can begin to appreciate being itself.

Like relishing a good food, the practices can give us a taste of life itself, not flavored or altered by what is filling it, but draw us closer to and more in love with being itself.

Delicious!