We filter water we drink and the air we breathe. Impurities are removed.
Similarly, yoga and meditation filter us.
Clearer water and air, easier… sweeter and more delightful to drink and breathe.
Yoga and meditation for a sweeter, more delightful life.
Activate your natural filtration system with regular practice!
Let your body, mind, and heart be the instrument as the breath moves through it–the breath, the less subtle form of the life force, the prana.
Meditate on the beauty created as the breath moves through your instrument.
Be the flute!
Like a pillow for the head, let your mind come to rest in the pillow of the breath.
Try this practice at the end of yoga in Savasana (or during restorative yoga practice) after your breath has softened and/or while in meditation.
In Savasana:
In this time of turmoil, do not meditate and do yoga to escape this world, but rather to find greater peace in the midst of it.
If there is one thing that this virus has taught us, there’s no escaping this world. We are all interconnected. What you do effects me, and what I do effects you. [Cough, sneeze!]
Let’s use this to our advantage and carefully litter our lovely planet with this peace.
During yoga and meditation, think of your breath being like a soft pillow the mind can come to rest in.
At first, the mind may keep going with its thoughts. As it starts to drop into the breath, the mind can start to relax, feeling more safe and comforted.
Your mind won’t mind this at all!
What is the nature of this mind as it comes to rest? What do you notice about it?
We become like sweet honeysuckle when we bow to and align with our highest nature.
Yoga and meditation can help us get there.
Set aside your woes, and come home to your sweet spot,
again, and again… and again.
Like a breath of fresh air, beauty in nature can bring our attention to this moment. Smell a rose, listen to a bird, watch a lizard… or a bee. Nature can bring you to this moment.
Similarly, focus your attention on the breath in your body which is happening now,
and bring yourself home.
Simply smell a rose… or with your breath,
bring yourself home!
The greater our inner peace, the more resilient we can be, the greater equipoise to monitor and adjust our thoughts, feelings, and actions with the moment.
Through regular yoga and meditation practice, we develop deeper and deeper roots in peace.
The eye of the storm witnesses the storm, but is calm.
Enjoy this brief introductory meditation to watching your breath and developing your relationship to your inner peace:
Equanimity, balance, equipoise…
Where do we find them during such extreme, reactive, and mercurial times?
Merely bringing the mind to the breath can steady the extremes and bring greater balance, steadiness, and equipoise.
Steady your ship in these choppy to stormy waters with attention to breath and movement in yoga and/or bringing mind to breath in meditation.
Steadiness, balance, equanimity… a breath of fresh air…
we all need now more than ever!
Enjoy this brief breathing practice to help gain greater balance and calm.
We all know these heartfelt feelings Lady Gaga sang so beautifully last evening on “One World.”
The inner smile–compassionate and steady–makes the best of any situation despite the heartbreak.
It is the smile of resiliency that accepts the clouds and rain and the storms… and keeps on smiling in the midst of tears.
Yoga and meditation can help us center and root in the loving kindness of the inner smile.
Smile… “You’ll find that life is still worth-while… If you just smile.”
The practice of the inner smile is easy, and you can do it any time of day or night no matter what is going on around you. It can revive your positivity in the midst of any and all difficulties. It can be your lifeline. Enjoy this practice I will teach you below. May it help you… smile!”
The Every Day Yogi 