Author: pmcrose

Yoga and meditation awaken us again and again to this experience in this body.

An incredible miracle–this life in this body!

Amazing!

If it wasn’t real, you’d think it was surreal!

Even the tiniest bit of space has room for an infinite array of possibilities.

It is beyond our stories and explanations and judgements, waiting most patiently.

It doesn’t care about your yoga pants or down dog–yours are just as good–no better or worse than the next.

It offers its space for us just as we are, quietly holding us.

Sometimes the mind does not know what’s going on.

Sensations, heat in the body, shifting–transformation from the inside out.

Sometimes the mind is last to know.

The chatty mind always has something to say… even about silence!

However, as the mind slows in meditation, the mind suddenly seems so relaxed and at ease.

When it’s not churning with its usual traffic jam of thoughts, it is so chill.

As our attention is drawn to the horizon at sunrise and sunset, we so often feel a stillness.

So too with your attention on the breath, let it be drawn to the edges of your breath–between each inhale and exhale, and each exhale and inhale.

Explore the horizon of your breath!

A gentle smile lifts spirits.

A gentle smile brings peace.

Maybe a chuckle or a laugh.

It’s a practice.

It can soften your harshest critic–you!

Good company is an inside job!

In the forest, at the beach, in the mountains… in a garden… on our meditation cushion or yoga mat, we start to harmonize with our natural resonance, like the breath crashing upon the shores of our being and receding.

Our breath is like our natural metronome  with which to move.

 

The towering redwood has nothing to prove; nor the moss on the log or the crawling bugs… nor the dirt on which we stand, from which we rise.

They are not looking for anyone’s approval or acceptance.  Not the next branch to be okay or to “improve,” not a greener tint to its moss.

Without these critics, things are so much quieter in the forest…

everything being itself.

Like an arrow to its bow, I offer myself to meditation and yoga.

Fire away!

Each meditation and yoga session is like putting out the welcome mat.

What comes next is a surprise, a mystery–an inquiry, an observation, a flood or a trickle of sensations, a smile… a tear, fright or joy, maybe even a laugh…

or bliss…

or nothing at all.

Welcome!