Breath~ Day #2 (Week 2)

Richard Fahlander • April 14, 2020

April 14

When people ask me how I am doing, I reply, “I’m breathing.” We are in a time when breath is on everyone’s mind. In ordinary daily life we don’t concentrate on breathing, otherwise it would be hard to think or do much of anything. In yoga, breath is our foundation. We mindfully nurture the life force that surges deep within. We follow the breath. We lead with the breath. We use the breath to gauge our strength and resilience. For Covid-19 patients such measurements become a matter of life or death. It’s interesting that breathing exercises recommended for Covid patients so closing follow what we do in yoga. Long slow inhales and exhales with pauses in between. Intentional breaths while face down (sphinx, cobra) and face up (bridge) and on the side (planks). Obviously, yoga doesn’t prevent Covid-19 (although if our president did yoga he might think it does), but, certainly, nurturing breath is a healthy practice with only positive side effects. So now, hold that breath and give thanks for the next.


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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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