Day 13: Yoga Perspective

onthemat • December 13, 2015

One of the many positive take-aways from my 30 days of yoga is listening to a multitude of teaching perspectives. We all have a teacher whose approach to yoga just seems to gel with ours. We choose the same classes each week and attend as regularIy as we desire. But I realize now that if […]

One of the many positive take-aways from my 30 days of yoga is listening to a multitude of teaching perspectives. We all have a teacher whose approach to yoga just seems to gel with ours. We choose the same classes each week and attend as regularIy as we desire. But I realize now that if you return to the same teacher again and again, you learn their rhythms and flows so well that there is a danger of tuning them out, and by extension, tuning out your body’s messages. And, of course, yoga is about doing the same poses over and over again and hopefully learning something new about how your body works every time, but like any repetitive movement, we each tend to do it the way our body tells us to. Every teacher works hard to elaborate on each pose and to string them together in new ways. Today’s teacher had an entirely new and creative approach to cueing each pose, of tuning your awareness to the weaker, underused muscles that generally hide behind the big boys. And I’m talking about body parts I hadn’t considered engaging for one reason or another, but once I did, I became really dialed in to something new. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I suggest you make a point of trying out a new yoga class, and particularly a class that you’ve avoided for one reason or another. Your body will be happy if you let it hear a new perspective.

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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

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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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