thoughts on how we fit into the web of community, family and society
As my yoga community continues to wrestles with the upheaval of radical transformation and each of us comes face to face with our own stuff in that regard, I continue to seek to hold all–and the process–in the light. Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
What do you dream of creating? Do your dreams include influencing the dreams of others individually? What about influencing our collective dreams? Is it possible to seek change while simultaneously letting go of control? (An aspect of the “actionless action” that the Bhagavad Gita teaches as a primary goal of the yoga.) Peace and light,…
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Last month, Sianna Sherman taught a weekend workshop at Willow Street Yoga. At the beginning of one of the segments of the workshop, she talked about the story of the monkey god Hanuman and his leap to Lanka (he did this to rescue Sita, who had been abducted by her own demons. Sita sent Hanuman…
My own garden is lush with greens enough to feed me every day, but I stopped at the farmers’ market to get apples and cheese. A fair number of people were out, enjoying the much needed rain. For those like me, who prefer to shop for food for no more than a couple of days…
I wonder sometimes about signs that say every one is welcome. We might wish for that. We might believe it. But when someone shows up who scares us or who is radically different or is somehow distasteful, is the welcome really as full as the words? A completely open welcome is a worthy goal, but…
Does it matter whether this juxtaposition of the exhortation to love next to a game of hangman was intended by those holding the chalk? Even if the juxtaposition was not thought out and done for the purpose of later viewers, it raises much to ponder about how we act and live in relationship to the…
Honor your ancestors–both of blood and of teaching lineage (parampara). Yes, it is a critical element of the yoga practice, regardless of whether one practices in the guru tradition (I do not–more on that in coming weeks, I think). Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.