Author: pmcrose

We practice yoga and meditation for positive change, not for perfection.

All kinds of feelings come and go. The steadiness remains throughout.

The steadiness does not try to stop the feelings.

The feelings do not rock the steadiness.

They exist in harmony.

Through yoga and meditation, we become more and more this witness, this steadiness, freer to feel it all and not be so rocked by it!

The yogic sages and sacred texts say the Self is infinitely peaceful.

For whatever bits of it I can now experience*, I am infinitely grateful!

*through my yoga and meditation practices and nature

There’s one thing I am certain of, and that’s that everything is uncertain. Well, I’m almost certainly certain….

Given this, the mind can only truly become calm if it accepts uncertainty.

The mind that does not try to “fix” things but that can accept uncertainty can settle more.

Yoga and breathing can help this happen during these very uncertain times.

This I am almost certainly certain of… for sure!

It is not the optimist that tries to make the best of a bad or difficult situation.

It’s the pragmatist!

Who wouldn’t want this?

My recipe for lemonade: yoga poses, breathing, meditation….

Drink up!

If, at times these days, like me, you feel emotionally overwhelmed, confused, and stressed–emotionally taxed…

step back and try some breath work, yoga, and/or meditation. Try some time in nature.

These are taxing time we are living through!

The stars shine all the brighter the darker the sky,… and yet, they’re easy to miss in all this darkness.

Share the stars you may see that we may miss.

Maybe a smile… maybe a kind word… maybe a compliment… a hearty laugh…

Let’s share the stars we see in this dark sky!

Aren’t we all a little bit like the Peanuts‘ comic’s Pig Pen in that we all carry this swirl around with us?

Yoga allows us, no empowers us, to come clean, or at least more clean, over time.

The processes of yoga are like the ultimate self-cleaning oven that, over time, nurture and deepen our contentment and inner peace.

Wherever you go, there you are!

Where can the most intimate parts of ourselves seek refuge?

In the breath, in yoga, in nature, in a mantra… in God?…

Where can you find refuge?

What sings to your heart and soul, into and through your core and beyond?

We graciously go there to soothe, replenish, and strengthen.

Can you hear the silence that lilts through these words like harp music through the air?

Can you feel its resonance… in the scent of garden flowers, in the sound of ocean waves or leaves rustling in the breeze…

in these words?