Yoga and meditation are the great equalizers.
Through our practices, as we realize deeper love and respect for all humans and life, we begin to focus more on the common good–that which is good or at least better not just for ourselves, but for all of of us.
In this world, we know this may not be so common.
With the common good as our intention, we can help spread the energy and vibes of the common good and help make it… more common!
We humans are unique. We are, like all animals, conscious–alive, vibrating with the life force.
But our consciousness is not only conscious or alive. It is alive and at the same time conscious of itself; it can reflect on itself and see or witness itself. We are, if you will, self-conscious, self-reflective. As though looking in a mirror, our consciousness can reflect on itself.
Close your eyes for a moment. Become aware of your breathing, of the buzzing energy in you that is being you. This awareness that is aware of this, this is your consciousness being aware of itself.
Through yoga and meditation, we can explore this consciousness that can be conscious of itself.
Mirror, mirror!
We all feel heavy or tight at times. Life can lose its ease.
When things get tough, it’s time to lay out the doormat and welcome greater ease into our life.
Yoga and meditation can help us open this doorway to greater ease, and to embrace this guest in the midst of it all. In practice, the light we encounter can lighten us, giving us even just a bit more space can be a lot.
It may not make things easy, but it can make things more easeful.
And who among us would not be grateful for that?!
Sound fills space. Thoughts do to.
We fill space. Each of us is a space, a unique space, a one of a kind.
Through yoga and meditation, we can explore this space that holds sounds, our thoughts, and our beings. We can drop into it.
In witness consciousness, we can see and feel this space.
You need to make space to find space.
If you make space in your life, in your day, to practice, you can become a space explorer.
What do you do that brings you joy? What do you love to do?
When you do it with gusto and share it with others, whatever it is literally vibrates with joy, with love.
This is love in action. A yoga, if you will.
It feeds our hearts and souls.
Who would not be grateful for something so nourishing?!
Share your joy doing what you love and feed those around you!
Life, as we know, is full of twists and turns. Our path is rarely, and usually anything but, straight.
Through yoga, we learn to take these turns, many of which are unexpected, with greater ease.
During our practice on our yoga mats, with our intention in mind, we take poses that twist and turn us in all matter of ways, and we breathe.
We try not to hold our breath on these turns on the mat. We learn, through practice, to breathe into them.
Through our yoga on the mat, we learn and practice taking twists and turns of life with strength, balance, and ease while staying focused on our heart’s deepest desires, our intentions. We learn to breathe more through them!
Great practice, don’t you think, for all that life has to offer!
When we turn ourselves and gaze in the direction of the sun, we can enjoy its warm light. So sweet!
Through yoga and meditation, we position ourselves to gaze in the direction of the inner light.
So, so sweet!
Children squirm with it.
Do you feel it? You’re not alone if you can’t, or if you seldom do. We may even come to think, mistakenly, that this is what it means to be grown up.
Yoga and meditation can reawaken our connection to the magic of life, and we can once more feel its vital juices flowing. How wonderful and exhilarating!
Now that’s… MAGIC!
Like the May flowers that bloom from the April showers,
blessings shower on you as you do your yoga and meditation.
And in the spring of your soul, you’re always blooming, or preparing to!
In yoga, as we move, we encounter the limits of our body–how far we can turn or twist or bend or reach.
We engage at this point, or slightly back off and play with this edge.
The practices similarly help us become aware of our mental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and energetic limitations. And the practices help us engage and play with these.
Through this limited engagement, we come to feel our unlimited potential to grow, our expansiveness.
Like the gong’s vibrations spreading outwards into space, yoga helps us explore beyond our limitations and grow them–feeling our wondrous and scintillating ever-expansiveness of being, no matter what our “limitations”!
The Every Day Yogi 