2017~ Here I Come!

onthemat • January 1, 2017

Building a Commitment Sandwich in the New Year. This is not my first time at the rodeo. Almost two years ago, I committed to 31 days of yoga and shared my experience with the On the Mat community. I believe I ended the 31 days with a musing about getting a tattoo (on my forehead?) […]

Building a Commitment Sandwich in the New Year.

This is not my first time at the rodeo. Almost two years ago, I committed to 31 days of yoga and shared my experience with the On the Mat community. I believe I ended the 31 days with a musing about getting a tattoo (on my forehead?) that reminded me every time I looked in the mirror to continue my practice. I was thrilled that nagging ailments that had hounded me had mysteriously dissipated with my new, relatively flexible body and was confident that the experience had been so profound that I could not imagine avoiding my mat in the future.

I guess I should have gotten that tattoo. Two years later and it has been quite awhile since I have been to yoga. With ever tightening hamstrings and a rather funky hip flexor, the mere idea of child’s pose makes me want to wail like a baby.

Like many, the New Year brings me hope, with new commitments to restored health abounding. I believe it was around the age of 15 that I first latched on to the idea of the “New Years Resolution” and have faithfully identified goals for personal improvement every year since that initial revelation. These commitments are often forgotten some time around the second week of January, and I have found that the relationship between successfully sticking to my commitment vs. lost focus is directly connected to my willingness to share my goals with those around me.

To this end, with the support of Ramsay and the wonderful OTM community, I will once again commit myself to 31 Days of Yoga and blog daily about the experience. Along with daily yoga, I will also be participating in the 21Day Revolution offered through OTM. Essentially, since tattooing my forehead is not a truly appealing option, I am creating a commitment sandwich that will support me as I re-commit to my practice and better health in the New Year.

As a salute to all of those out there like myself who are reintroducing stiff limbs to yoga, Ramsay has kindly agreed to have Mountain pose serve as the pose of the month. Yes, that is correct, stand tall and proud at the top of your mat while enjoying standing savasana, it is going to be a great new year.

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Heart~ Day #7 (Week #4)

By Linda Malcomb • May 3, 2020
“There is a light in the core of our being that calls us home—one that can only be seen with closed eyes; We can feel it as a radiance in the center of our chest. This light of loving awareness is always here, regardless of our conditioning. It does not matter how many dark paths we have traveled or how many wounds we have inflicted or sustained as we have unknowingly stumbled toward this inner radiance. It does not matter how long we have sleepwalked, seduced by our desires and fears. This call persists until it is answered, until we surrender to who we really are. When we do, we feel ourselves at home wherever we are. A hidden beauty reveals itself in our ordinary life. As the true nature of our Deep Hear is unveiled, we feel increasingly grateful for no reason—grateful to simply be.” —John J. Prendergast, PHD, The Deep Heart

SUN!~ Day #6 (Week #4)

By Linda Malcomb • May 2, 2020
Seems like it’s been rainy, windy, dreary for eons. Which may have helped us shelter inside a bit more. I remember reading years and years ago in a Seth book that weather can be influenced, and even created by mass human emotion. Why not? We are far more powerful than we currently acknowledge, and science is beginning to validate many phenomena that had seemed inconceivable before. Those seemingly endless days of “bad” weather seemed congruent with the emotional tone of covid her in New England. And now SUN! Glorious, warming, invigorating, hope-filled Sun! Today I will be outside basking and gardening and thanking. And I’m sure the whole neighborhood, and most of New England will go outside, stand with our faces to the sun and breathe a huge healing breath of joy. And maybe the collective energy of that will resonate out across the word as a promise of brighter days to come.
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