Author: pmcrose

In meditation, we are told to refresh our posture whenever we notice it necessary.

All of us who meditate know the tendency to start to slouch and cave in on oneself after prolonged sitting for meditation, no longer in a steady and easeful posture.

In our daily life, as we notice ourselves not steady and easeful, we can consciously do or think something to recenter, to regain more presence to the moment.

Thus, yoga can become a practice off the mat as well as on…

a means of refreshing our posture again and again in this ever-turbulent and mercurial life.

When we slip, we can ask ourselves what can return us to a steady and easeful posture in this situation. This is yoga!

The world right now is a convincing argument for finding happiness, peace of mind, and balance independent of circumstance.*

Yoga and meditation are the path to this state.

We temper our reactions and responses knowing things will pass, while at the same time we totally accept our reactions.

Such is the path to greater equipoise.

Hail to the chief!

*Maybe 2020 really is sharpening our vision!

Through our yoga and meditation practice, the usual active fluctuations of the mind can be graced with a slowing of thoughts and, at points, maybe even stillness.

For this interruption, we can be really thankful… and graciously smile!

Sometimes life is hard to take, difficult to digest, if you will.

Meditation and yoga can help us with this, a true digestif.*

With the practices to aid us, we can move forward in a more positive way.

Drink up!  Santé, salud! To your health and well being!

*a drink or portion of food drunk or eaten in order to aid the digestion.

In meditation and yoga, we can find this space of santosha or contentment, where everything is okay.

We have nothing to prove.

From this space, we can develop our skills and access our talents, and offer them to those around us and the world.

Offering from this space–this is yoga in action!

Meditation and yoga are a practiced steadiness in the Self, like the sun rising and setting no matter what the weather….

the moon steady no matter what the phase.

Make the effort to do the practices.

The biggest transformations are subtle in nature, vibratory, that alter the deepest impressions in our psyche and emotional body making way for more light.

We can have intentions for the outcomes of our practice, and these can be quite fruitful, but the subtlest “results” of our practice are the gifts of grace in the deepest recesses of our being.

If we dwell in the place of want, we are always lacking, whether it be emotions or material things. Always wanting, slighted somehow….

If we dwell in a the place of fullness, we lack nothing emotionally and materially.

We bring this fullness to what we do, and generously share its unending bounty.

Yoga and meditation can introduce us to this fullness–contentment/santosa and bountiful joy and bliss/ananda.

Filler ‘er up!

When one’s self realizes it is a contracted form of the Self, it aligns with the Self.

Yoga and meditation over time throw off anything that obscures this experience.

The droplet of the ocean recognizes and remembers it is the ocean.

Let yoga be your path to your happy place… or at least happier!

Again and again, take this path.

Smile!