Imagine a ring of dancers hand-in hand encircling and moving around a fire, this free flow of movement in celebration, in respect, in love, and in honor.
Such is my yoga and meditation practices to inner peace and deep deep happiness.
Won’ you join me in the dance?
What would happen if I made inner peace the fulcrum of my being?*
What would happen if we all did?
I do not mean a tight kind of keeping things calm and peaceful at every moment, but a deep overarching and enveloping inner peace that is always there, a deep sense of peace that includes everything.
There are days with yoga and meditation where the mind and emotions are so active or thick, teeming unendingly or viscose like thick peanut butter.
That which witnesses this quietly waits so patiently.
The witness of all these fluctuations is not the fluctuations.
Sshhh, the silent witness is not caught up in all this activity!
It does not happen every practice–
the sweet kiss, that most satisfying moment.
But its rays emanate through every practice,
and keep us coming back!
Our yoga and meditation practices can help us shore up more steady, positive responses to troubles and woes.
Really!
Try it.
Given the pandemic, etc., there’s a lot of opportunity to practice!
In a pure heart, bliss is free to twirl, and expand, ever-blissful.
Meditation and yoga can help reveal and dissipate the clouds or obstructions that literally block this light.
Through the practices, the light itself dissipates that which clouds and limits it.
Yoga (including poses and breath work) and meditation are the two wings which give the bird flight.
If you only yank on a tight knot with force, you often only make the knots tighter.
When you ease up some and gently work certain parts that need more finesse, you can achieve success.
Such it is with the knots of our body, emotions, and heart. They need both effortful working and a more easeful touch to work their way out.
An effortful, heat-producing yoga practice such as vinyasa or holding hatha poses longer needs to be combined with a more cooling, easeful practice such as restorative or yin to get the mix needed to undo the knots of our being.
How much you do of each depends on your knot….
Every day can be our inauguration day!
We can step onto our yoga mat and move, we can meditate, we can contemplate uplifting words, we can do pranayama, we can chant, we can…. (for even the briefest)
make the effort every day to welcome the light into our lives, and be transformed.
We can make the effort to open ourselves and step into grace, and let ourselves be inaugurated!
Those “impossible” knots of the heart, even those not visible or obvious, yoga and meditation can help undo.
Trust the practice!
The Every Day Yogi 