Day 23~ Yoga Instructor or SuperHero?

onthemat • January 25, 2017

Sometimes I look at yoga instructors who are super bendy and strong and think they are superheroes. Talking while upside down…really? Or counting while holding a particularly painful pose while also offering supportive instruction…how is that possible? Not to mention how they maintain an even temperament? Don’t they every want to yell “for the fiftieth […]

Sometimes I look at yoga instructors who are super bendy and strong and think they are superheroes. Talking while upside down…really? Or counting while holding a particularly painful pose while also offering supportive instruction…how is that possible? Not to mention how they maintain an even temperament? Don’t they every want to yell “for the fiftieth time, put your elbows by your side when lowering yourself from plank to the floor you fools!” Today the instructor shared that she is also working through an injury similar to the one I have been struggling with. I appreciated her sharing where she is working, particularly since she had ideas about how I could mend and strengthen myself. Very happy to know I have something in common with a yoga superhero, even if it is an injury.

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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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