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Yoga and meditation can make us aware of this ever-present gift that all too often gets shrouded for us all by the business and difficulties of life.

Through our practices, we slow down, we breathe, we take poses, we close our eyes and explore our inner landscape…. and this gifts that is always with us may become more apparent.

Through our practices, may we discover and explore this gift and share it generously with others through our lives.

A sunset… a towering redwood… we need to slow down to appreciate either.

Meditation and yoga slow us down enough so we can begin to appreciate being itself.

Like relishing a good food, the practices can give us a taste of life itself, not flavored or altered by what is filling it, but draw us closer to and more in love with being itself.

Delicious!

When it’s lemon season and life serves you up a pile of lemons, don’t merely just go to your go-to and make lemonade.

There’s preserved lemons, lemon pasta, lemon butter on crab, fish, or shrimp, lemon cakes and puddings, lemon chicken, lemon sauce for fried pork or chicken cutlets….

Let your imagination go. Find ways to use and enjoy their abundance, to make the best of this sour bounty.

Our yoga and meditation can help us turn “sour” events and circumstances, to find some light within them. Lemons sometimes need a sweet element to balance them.

Let your love, caring, and compassion do so with life’s bitterness or sourness.

It’s not always easy to think of good or positive ways to make use of all of life’s lemons, that’s for sure. Sometime’s we just have to forebear and pucker up. Nevertheless, when it is lemon season, try to make the most when the lemons abound.

No, this doesn’t mean it is easy!

Yoga and meditation help your light shine, your inner light.

The practices help you find, tap into, and shine more of this inner light in all you think, say, do, and… are.

Through regular practice, you develop and deepen your relationship with this inner light.

Now who doesn’t want that?!

Are you ready for a little light practice?

Good vibes are good for everyone–the person feeling and sending them, those receiving them… for everyone around.

Yoga and meditation are the sun, the soil, nutrients, and water that can help tend and blossom good vibes in the gardens of our being.

May we find ways to grow and harvest and share good vibes. Lord knows, we can all benefit from this no matter what the circumstances. Right?!

Good vibes!

The effects of our yoga and meditation practices stick to us like our shadow.

Of course, the practices affect how we cast the Light, the universal energy or prana shakti. Yoga brings us more to the light and the light more to us.

So don’t forget, even when you’re busy, there’s time for a light practice!

We all know how a mother’s eye can transform the ugliest newborn into the most adorable of creatures. (To a mother’s eye, no newborn is ugly.)

Yoga and meditation are not too unlike that.

They can transform life’s trials and suffering, not necessarily into something pleasant or beautiful, but into something certainly more bearable.

The eye of love and compassion is truly miraculous. Through the grace of practice, our vision is altered. We might even come to see hidden blessings in the “ugliest” of situations.

I, for one, practice to have my vision transformed by the grace of this loving eye,

This human life does not come with an operating manual.

Yoga and meditation help us engage with an evolving experience of life, always changing and transforming so that the operating instructions are ever-evolving.

Who would ever think an operating manual could be so exciting and suspenseful and fun?!

One of the things about yoga is it can teach us to adapt more fluidly to new circumstances (which are happening all the time!).

Pose by pose, breath by breath.

No matter what our age, the practices help adapt us to the ever-constant changes in ourselves, others, and circumstances. This is certainly the practice for me.

Old dog… new tricks!

For a dog to learn new tricks, it needs a trainer.

Such is yoga and meditation for me.

Though I am no pup, I am open to learning ways to have a happier and more balanced, loving, and compassionate life.

Ruff, ruff! Teach away, yoga and meditation!