Author: pmcrose

Judging keeps things at arm’s-length.

Loving doesn’t!

I’ve done yoga and practice meditation for 41 years now, and I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface.

Every day really is a new dawn.  This is not just a slogan.

Like a smiling enthusiastic young child, we can, no matter what our age, greet the new dawn.

May I live life like it’s a breath of fresh air, because it is!

Yoga and meditation over and over again freshen our connection to the life force suggesting there’s always the possibility of change.

My habits of action and reaction can severely limit my possibilities and potential happiness, joy, and love.

Yoga and meditation lift us out of these grooves of being, giving us a vision of the horizon and a world of possibilities.

Ujjiyi breath, you fill the sails of my being and carry me from Warrior pose, to Triangle, to Downward-Facing Dog.

Ending in the stillness of Shavasana, I fall back into the breath’s now quieter arms.

I am grateful knowing you are always there for me.

 

Like the ocean at the beach, our waves of breath come in… and go out… over and over again.

As with the waves of the ocean, the waves of our breath calm our nerves, sooth and settle our attention, mind, heart, and body.

We relax and feel the ground beneath us and the open sky above.

Meditate on your breath.

Meditation and yoga do not solve our problems.

They change or shift our orientation to them, and to life.

This can make all the difference in the world!

Yoga is where the one becomes many, and the many become one,

where what is inside becomes outside, and outside becomes inside–

where there is no one/many, no inside/outside.

Today in meditation, I felt like I lost my mind…

to my heart.

Yoga and meditation are ultimately tools of inquiry and contemplation.

They are tools for living more and more centered in the heart, more alive to life and its infinite possibilities

They unleash the vitality and enthusiasm of life itself.

They awaken us again and again to the ever-new and fresh experience of our being “I am alive!”

Ssshhh,

come with me

over here,

and let’s get high…

on a little…

yoga and meditation!