Author: pmcrose

Many traditions and cultures have expressions or phrases that celebrate life–Joie de vivre, L’Chaim, Salud….

Through your yoga and meditation practices, as you connect to the Prana Shakti and feel its dance within, let its enthusiasm fill you and those around you!

May the beauty of the divine Shakti shine through all you do!

The Prana Shakti is the creative power of the universe, or the life force, that is being you, me, all of us, and all of creation.

The strength to persevere during difficult times finds its roots in the same ecstasy that sways this being in dance, laughter, and joy.

We are always remembering and forgetting… and remembering again.

Remember this next time you meditate and forget to stay with the breath and/or your mantra. Once you remember, you’ll come back to the present moment,

but then eventually you’ll forget again.

Remember this!

Inner peace is what recenters the gyroscope of our being.

When we start to wobble, yoga and meditation help recalibrate and steady us.

The practices also keep us humming along.

So, no matter how we feel, yoga and meditation are like threading the needle of our being, readying us to more ably work with whatever material life throws our way.

In everyday life, we are most concerned and involved with our thoughts and their content.

In meditation and yoga, we start both to become the witness of these thoughts and become more aware of the space around and between, amidst them. We start to become, at times, less caught up in their form and content.

Much like still night air envelopes and hugs the night sounds, stillness–space free of thought–surrounds our thoughts.

Through practice, we can slip into this sweet space.

Regular mediation and yoga practice greases the synaptic slide into frequencies more aligned with the universal life force or the Self.

We know that neural routes frequented make these routes more accustomed and “easeful” at firing.

There is nothing like being well-practiced. Grease the slide!

Our yoga and meditation practices can tune us into the frequency of the universal or the Self.

Over and over again, especially in meditation, we notice our minds wandering off into errant or “urgent” thoughts.

The practice, we find, is noticing this and returning to whatever takes us to our center–to repeat a mantra, focus on the breath, take a yoga pose or two, do some pranayama, read some inspired text, take a hike or visit a garden or the ocean–to return again and again to that frequency.

The practice is noticing and remembering, and then returning.

We are always practicing. It never ends.

Enjoy the practice!

Holding onto unnecessary things is much like carrying a grocery bag filled with food that has rocks in it. Way unnecessarily heavy. It can strain and weigh us down.

Yoga and meditation are like a colander that allows what isn’t necessary and useful to pass, holding onto what you want and need.

By the way, the colander does its job naturally. We do not have to force it to strain. Maybe a few jiggles and possibly a slight push to eke out the last bits, but not forced.

Same with yoga and meditation. We do not have to strain for it to do its job.

With our efforts to show up regularly and do the practices, this naturally happens–straining the unnecessary out and holding on to what you need and want.

No strain… to strain.

The energy of our meditation and yoga practices infuses our being much like a tea bag does water.

This energy spreads throughout us coloring and flavoring our being with its scintillating energy.

Practice regularly, and see what it brews up for you!