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With travel these days curtailed for many of us, let your yoga and meditation take you to the most distant place in our usual rushed-about life–here and now.

In meditation and yoga, we dive through the more turbulent and choppy waters at the surface into deeper and stiller waters.

What does the choppy turbulence look like from these stiller deeper waters?

Can we reside or live at the surface all the while with the seat of our attention in these stiller deeper waters?

Such is witness consciousness!

Yoga and meditation, your whispers, at times so subtle, echo in the canyon of my being.

You have to pick the fruit from your tree to eat it.

Yoga and meditation–just do it!

May your yoga and meditation practices be like a lifesaver that keeps you afloat during difficult or troubling times, and like a love boat of celebrants during good times.

Though we may go under while in the thicket of particularly convoluted times, even then the practices restore our buoyancy so we return to the surface again afloat.

Whatever the conditions or circumstances, we can be ever-grateful for these practices that truly keep us afloat.

Note how these two trees, separate, yet growing in tandem as though synchronized or in sympathy to one another, elegantly wind upward.

So too we can be with the universal, self to Self, individual life force to the universal life force.

Yoga and meditation (including pranayama and all the limbs of yoga) are what we do, the practices, to synchronize with this universal, to move in tandem.

May every day be a new path to your heart.

See it as such,

and it will be.

Let us be like these two trees, this manzanita and oak, unlike one another in so many ways, yet supportive of each other to grow in beneficial ways.

Such an unusual sight in the forest… Let’s make the effort to make it less so among us humans.

The more we find this in life, the more we can truly be grateful for and truly value one another.

Gratitude is an attitude

filled with beatitude.*

*beatitude: a state of utmost bliss or of supreme happiness; supreme blessedness; exalted happiness

Who wouldn’t have gratitude for that which brings solace and peace and for that which uplifts you?

Who wouldn’t have gratitude for these things gratitude brings you?

This gratitude for gratitude is like entering a hall of mirrors, creating an avalanche of gratitude…

lifting us higher.