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On the Way to William Penn House for Tuesday Night Yoga Practice
Looking softly, I can see the branches beginning to swell with the promise of Spring.
- Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos | Poetry
I Left Work A Half Hour Later Than I’d Intended
I must have been completely in tune with Kali, the goddess of sequencing.
On the Walk Home From Work (Outside the Department of Labor and Across the Street From the Shelter for Those Without Homes)
Thinking about privilege, including the privilege to choose whether to take time away from the conflict and not think about it. I’m trying to be conscious of that particular privilege whenever I find myself instinctively trying to turn away and then to gather myself from the recognition of my good fortune and reengage.
What Students Hear
Last week I took a lovely all-levels yoga class where the emphasis was on fully engaging in the practice rather than striving to achieve a particular outward notion of what the poses should look like. Near the beginning of the class, but after the emphasis on not striving had already been discussed, the teacher said…
“How did I get to be so lucky?”
most of us might ask, who have the health, education, material well-being, and computer access and skills to be able to read this. “Not luck, but grace,” Paul Muller-Ortega advises that Swami Chidvilasananda would say. For this grace, practice gratitude. When we fully recognize that what we have are gifts, then it should lead us…