Day 16: Yoga Protection

onthemat • December 16, 2015

With the warm breezes of December stirring up, and mixing up, the universe’s energy, yoga has become the most consistent event in my universe. Take the strange un-seasonably balmy December weather and add it to the even stranger, unimaginably violent acts of one human toward another, and it makes you want to crawl into a […]

With the warm breezes of December stirring up, and mixing up, the universe’s energy, yoga has become the most consistent event in my universe. Take the strange un-seasonably balmy December weather and add it to the even stranger, unimaginably violent acts of one human toward another, and it makes you want to crawl into a (stocked and furnished) hole until it’s all right again. Yoga is its own kind of insulated hole. When you crawl into the warm cocoon of the studio, roll out your mat onto your little rectangle of space and turn your thoughts inward, you instantly feel protected. It’s a chance to turn off the outside noise and listen to the subtle messages emanating from deep inside your joints, your connective tissue, your tendons, ligaments and muscles, and every day they’re telling you a different story. You just have to slow down enough and find a quiet space to listen to your unique story. I am discovering that every day my body has a new story to tell, and it’s never the same.

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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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