Author: pmcrose

We come to our mat or cushion for yoga or meditation, and all of us is there.

A book to open that you think you know, but then…

you come to know something new about this book of you that’s being written as you read it.

If yoga is about self-study, svadhyaya*, and through the practices we can become more loving, joyful, and at peace, then this is the time to bring out the best student you can be.

Right?!!

*svadhyaya–“one’s own reading” or ‘”self-study” is one of the main teaching of the Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras being the fourth Niyama.

Hikers have hiking poles and boots, gardeners have shovels, doctors stethoscopes, teachers books, and carpenters have hammers….

Yoga students have the practices–meditation, asanas or poses, pranayama or breath work.

We learn the tools of yoga and use them to explore, discover, and experience more deeply and more subtly who we are having this human life.

Let your yoga and meditation be the arms as wide as the expansive horizon that hold you and all your possibilities to grow into and explore.

Our yoga and meditation can be the expansive and ever-deepening experience of what it means to be human.

Let’s go there and explore!

Every bit of us comes to the mat or the meditation cushion–the love, the suffering, the joy, the sadness, the pleasure, the pain….

There are no nooks or crannies of our being that remain untouched as we broaden our hearts and expand our sense of being through the practices.

The healing power of love allows for more opening into love.

It is a cycle our yoga and meditation help create, energize, and support.

Love heals with love to make room for more love.

This is yoga.

In your yoga and meditation, breathe in and out of the heart, and fan the flames of love to grow this fire until it rages and burns down everything in its path.

Smile! This is one wild fire there’s no need to control.

Burn… baby… burn!

You know that lovely feeling that happens at the end of yoga class or meditation?

It’s like you’ve been on a road trip to the sweet heart of your being.

ROAD TRIP!!!!!

If the parts are interrelated and interdependent, one small shift effects the whole. Everything must rearrange around and in relation to this small shift.

Therefore, these changes which evolve from our yoga and meditation that are often very very subtle are also revolutionary, effecting our whole being in subtle but very significant ways.

Evolutionary… and revolutionary!

Practice regularly, and let the revolution begin!

As we honor the highest through our yoga and meditation, may it be like dominoes spreading its goodness throughout us and to everyone around us, sustaining us on our “bad” days and uplifting us even higher on our “good.”