Day 28: Yoga Connection

onthemat • December 28, 2015

POSTED BY ADMIN @ DECEMBER 22, 2015 With only three days till Christmas, I found myself in an incredibly joyful and uplifting yoga class with a masterful teacher leading the way. Poised and prepared, she lead a full class of students through powerful, flowing and creative movement with a continual smile and enthusiastic commentary. What […]

POSTED BY ADMIN @ DECEMBER 22, 2015
With only three days till Christmas, I found myself in an incredibly joyful and uplifting yoga class with a masterful teacher leading the way. Poised and prepared, she lead a full class of students through powerful, flowing and creative movement with a continual smile and enthusiastic commentary. What a gift! As a student of yoga, you get so caught up in the details of your own practice that you sometimes fail to notice the commitment and talents of your teacher. Let us not forget that teachers show up for every class with a new and inventive flow for our enjoyment. Let us not forget that teachers live full lives with all the same stressors as we do. Teachers have to shop for Christmas or Hanukkah gifts, teachers have family responsibilities, and teachers have overflowing holiday to-do lists. I have had the good fortune to participate in so many OTM classes over the years, and I have never been let down by an unprepared and unfocused teacher. (I’m not including tardiness or illness.) The connection between teacher and student grows deep the more time you spend in each other’s presence. It’s a fluid experience that truly doesn’t get old.

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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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