Category: Ponder
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Clearing dark thoughts
I like an analogy a yoga teacher (Michael) spoke about at an event where we both taught yoga a month ago. After our sessions, he sat everyone down and talked. His wisdom is inspiring. Bliss, is like the sun. It’s there always. Just there. Now then, our thoughts are like the clouds. They are fleeting,…
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Tears in yin yoga
Last night someone cried after my yin yoga class. I held her in my arms, her teardrops big and heavy falling on my shoulder. I hugged her closer in, her back shook heavily in my arms as she cried harder. She told me later, “I’ve restrained myself for too long. I needed this.” Never had…
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The great abyss
“It’s not about you, it’s not about all your talents. ‘Cos all those things form this pseudo reality where you find all your validation in what you do. And if you surrender yourself to it, where these things don’t become as important—then you find your creativity again, you find out the reason why you create.…
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Savasana
I wrote this in March 2015. Now, time to time in my own practice when I lay down in savasana, I find my mind drifting back to this very one time that I entered savasana with no expectations, yet receiving the best I’ve ever had. Re-reading my journal, this reads raw and authentic. I believe…
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Do caterpillars know that they are going to be butterflies?
I really love this question I saw on the Internet once, “Do caterpillars know that they’re gonna be butterflies or do they just build the cocoon and be like, what am I doing?” I laughed, lovingly of course, at the idea of this puzzling thought in a poor caterpillar’s mind. Fast forward to yesterday while…
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Baby bird in a heartbeat
Strange how we plan and plan, then the universe drops an injured baby bird on my lap and so I drop all plans for bird-sitting. Furball was barely breathing when I found him. He was going to die, I understood that and accepted it. I held him in my hands and meditated with much greater…
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