What do you do that brings you joy? What do you love to do?
When you do it with gusto and share it with others, whatever it is literally vibrates with joy, with love.
This is love in action. A yoga, if you will.
It feeds our hearts and souls.
Who would not be grateful for something so nourishing?!
Share your joy doing what you love and feed those around you!
Life, as we know, is full of twists and turns. Our path is rarely, and usually anything but, straight.
Through yoga, we learn to take these turns, many of which are unexpected, with greater ease.
During our practice on our yoga mats, with our intention in mind, we take poses that twist and turn us in all matter of ways, and we breathe.
We try not to hold our breath on these turns on the mat. We learn, through practice, to breathe into them.
Through our yoga on the mat, we learn and practice taking twists and turns of life with strength, balance, and ease while staying focused on our heart’s deepest desires, our intentions. We learn to breathe more through them!
Great practice, don’t you think, for all that life has to offer!
When we turn ourselves and gaze in the direction of the sun, we can enjoy its warm light. So sweet!
Through yoga and meditation, we position ourselves to gaze in the direction of the inner light.
So, so sweet!
Children squirm with it.
Do you feel it? You’re not alone if you can’t, or if you seldom do. We may even come to think, mistakenly, that this is what it means to be grown up.
Yoga and meditation can reawaken our connection to the magic of life, and we can once more feel its vital juices flowing. How wonderful and exhilarating!
Now that’s… MAGIC!
Like the May flowers that bloom from the April showers,
blessings shower on you as you do your yoga and meditation.
And in the spring of your soul, you’re always blooming, or preparing to!
In yoga, as we move, we encounter the limits of our body–how far we can turn or twist or bend or reach.
We engage at this point, or slightly back off and play with this edge.
The practices similarly help us become aware of our mental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and energetic limitations. And the practices help us engage and play with these.
Through this limited engagement, we come to feel our unlimited potential to grow, our expansiveness.
Like the gong’s vibrations spreading outwards into space, yoga helps us explore beyond our limitations and grow them–feeling our wondrous and scintillating ever-expansiveness of being, no matter what our “limitations”!
Emotions change. Thoughts change. Circumstances change.
In time, everything changes. Change is the order of the universe.
Where is there steadiness, centeredness, in the midst of it all?
Yoga and meditation are like a dating app that can help us find our ideal partner to pair up with and grow steadier. The practices can help us find this steadiness and, over time, develop and deepen our relationship with this space.
And who, might I ask, would not want this in this crazy world? Want to go steady?
The space between these words you are reading is where the mind grows quiet…
like the space between the inhale and exhale.
In this space, the mind grows full… of space.
So full! Much more expansive than any words running through it.
Like infinite sky reaching out from the mountains.
Love is its own reward.
Because when you love someone or something or when you love what you’re doing or thinking, you feel love.
And when you feel love, you feel love.
Now that’s instant karma!
The good new is yoga and meditation can help us center in this love.
When our hands and heart move together–hands with heart and heart with hands–we create with love.
We create love!
Yoga and meditation can help us find this unity of action and spirit and bring its steadying and nurturing energy to this tumultuous world.
The Every Day Yogi 