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Emotions change. Thoughts change. Circumstances change.

In time, everything changes. Change is the order of the universe.

Where is there steadiness, centeredness, in the midst of it all?

Yoga and meditation are like a dating app that can help us find our ideal partner to pair up with and grow steadier. The practices can help us find this steadiness and, over time, develop and deepen our relationship with this space.

And who, might I ask, would not want this in this crazy world? Want to go steady?

The space between these words you are reading is where the mind grows quiet…

like the space between the inhale and exhale.

In this space, the mind grows full… of space.

So full! Much more expansive than any words running through it.

Like infinite sky reaching out from the mountains.

Love is its own reward.

Because when you love someone or something or when you love what you’re doing or thinking, you feel love.

And when you feel love, you feel love.

Now that’s instant karma!

The good new is yoga and meditation can help us center in this love.

When our hands and heart move together–hands with heart and heart with hands–we create with love.

We create love!

Yoga and meditation can help us find this unity of action and spirit and bring its steadying and nurturing energy to this tumultuous world.

Like the oyster to sand, may your yoga and meditation secrete the juices to transform life’s inevitable irritants into things of beauty that you value, and at the very least make them less irritating.

The feeling that you have when you do something is what you automatically receive. You are feeling it and its reverberations as you do whatever the act is.

When you perform any action out of love, you receive the automatic reward. You receive love!

Yoga is not something you only do on the mat.

Perform more acts of love in 2025, and make this an even happier new year!

Practice makes progress, not perfect.

That’s why it’s called a yoga and meditation practice.

As we practice, we care for the well-being of ourselves and others. The practices are for progress with this.

Progress is never-ending. Perfect is “achieved” or “reached” (as if it can ever really be achieved or reached?!).

We are ever-evolving human beings.

Ready for some progress with that?

See you at practice!

In meditation and yoga, we usually begin our practice in the choppy waters of the everyday thinking mind.

As we practice and dive deeper, we encounter quieter, steadier currents.

At times as we practice, we may drop deeper still to the ground of our being and experience its vastness.

As we finish our practice and return to our daily life, we are buoyed by the active waters of everyday life, and we again rise to the surface. But we are more refreshed and restored.

Now we have experienced some of the deeper currents that move our lives. We carry these fruits of practice back to the surface. We know more intimately what supports our everyday life, and we are grateful for this.

There is nothing like a deep dive!

The middle chakra is the heart chakra, with three below and three above, our baser or lower frequencies and our more ethereal higher frequencies.

The alchemy of the heart melds these, and composes the music of the heart from this full range of the lowest to the highest tones of our being.

Love is what brings it all together.

When we move forward with love, we have all our being working in harmony tuned by the heart. We are literally more composed, if you will.

Yoga and meditation help to tune us to this love frequency and get us moving to it.

In the game Marco Polo, we listen and pursue the person answering with “Polo” when we yell out “Marco.” The goal is to catch that person. We seek them.

Such it is with meditation and mantra. The Self or universal vibrates with mantra. We say this enlivened mantra and feel its reverberations. We lean into it. We seek it.

It is leading us to the Self or the universal. We follow these vibrations, its sensations, to That which we seek.

“Marco!”…