Author: pmcrose

Let’s linger in our yoga poses, and take the time to smell the flowers.

Experiment with being in your yoga poses a little longer.

When you take the time to smell the flowers, what will you discover?

Through yoga and meditation, our thoughts and feelings, including the more base ones, are fired and transformed in the crucible of the heart.

On our mat and meditation cushion, we can come to know the universal spirit that is common to all life.

Here we can build, renew and revive our love and respect for all life and learn compassion for all.

Such love and respect and compassion at its core rejects hate–hate which seeks to denigrate and even destroy the “other.”

On our mat, let’s revive our courageous and loving spirit and stand up to hate whenever it shows its ugly face.

Let’s shed some light on it to eradicate its dark ways!

This little wildflower’s sweet and unexpected scent, in that moment there was nothing else.

The smallest of things can have such an impact!

In yoga and meditation, the smallest of things can have such an impact.

Yoga is a celebration of the life force.

The practices come with inherent party favors–joy, laughter, smiles, love… compassion.

Party on!

Yoga and meditation practiced regularly give us resiliency.

Through practices, we touch our source, reviving our life juices, giving us greater equipoise and centeredness and joy

Yoga time, REVIVAL time!

Lord knows, right now we all could use it!

The blacksmith cools the hot metal in water so that it loses its plasticity and can hold its shape.

Similarly, in yoga, we cool down towards the end of practice allowing any shifts in our being to take hold and solidify.

This really gets us in shape!

If you regularly practice yoga and/or meditation, thank them for their support.

After all, their support is… life-changing!

Events of life have always shaped us to some degree, but this past year…

has felt like we were heated over and over again by the Blacksmith of Time…

pounded, repeatedly….

We may now finally be in the cool water bath and emerging from the fires, reshaped.

Unlike such difficult circumstances, yoga and meditation too shape us, not in such a harrowing way, but more gently, compassionately, yet forcefully, with love and respect, the practices shape us more deeply in symmetry with the Self, the universal… more deeply in love!

Spring has always been a season of opening and awakening, of blooming, of coming out from the darker winter.

This spring as the virus’ threat wanes, we are starting to feel some relief and gradually, like a new flower of the season, we are blooming.

What will our flowers look like?

Like attentive and knowledgeable gardeners, yoga and meditation tend this progressive blossoming!