Day 21: Yoga Addict

onthemat • December 21, 2015

I would think that after 26 consecutive days of yoga during a super busy, super distracting time of the year, I could call myself a yoga addict. And I mean this in the best sense of the word. I now know what it feels like to put yoga at the top of my priority list […]

I would think that after 26 consecutive days of yoga during a super busy, super distracting time of the year, I could call myself a yoga addict. And I mean this in the best sense of the word. I now know what it feels like to put yoga at the top of my priority list no matter the cost. As an added bonus, my daily appearance at OTM has helped me to make friends with other yoga addicts. I’m happy to report that there are plenty of them, too. We fly in the door, leaving the chaos of our lives outside, and laugh at our efforts to get there. Sometimes we’re wearing the same yoga clothes as the day before, and sometimes we haven’t washed our hair in days, but that only increases the joy, because who really cares? One fellow addict told me that it took her mother sniffing her hair and asking when she had last washed it to realize she might have to pick up her hygiene efforts. The reality is that the studio is filled with busy stay-at-home mothers and fathers, with busy working mothers and fathers, with busy students of all ages, all of whom allow themselves time to get to their yoga mats regardless of their inability to take a long, hot, flowing shower as much as they’d like or wearing clothes smelling of lemon-verbena laundry detergent. The real yoga addicts are those whose priority is to show up on their mats (almost) every day and who don’t need a gold star for their efforts (or to publish a daily blog about it), but just show up because it truly matters to them.

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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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