Day 18~ Snow Day

onthemat • December 9, 2017

The first snowfall of the season always brightens my spirit – that is once I rake the final leaves, retrieve the snow shovels and start the snow blower. All that activity leads me to take my aches and pains to OTM. On the one hand, I’m too sore for yoga, on the other hand, it […]

The first snowfall of the season always brightens my spirit – that is once I rake the final leaves, retrieve the snow shovels and start the snow blower. All that activity leads me to take my aches and pains to OTM. On the one hand, I’m too sore for yoga, on the other hand, it will help me stretch and relax. The class begins on a welcome note when Loren expresses her visible excitement about the white flakes floating down. We move through elemental poses that build a strong foundation for practice and prepare us for the shoveling season. She keeps us strong, stable and focused. With legs lifted up the wall we share Savasana. I close my eyes and see snowflakes dancing in a dark sky. It looks like a movie. I am reminded of the way children gaze up into the icy white with mouths wide open. I think that at least once each winter we should all do the same. New snow is a marvel to behold and celebrate for soon the slush will be here.

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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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