Day 5: Yoga Expectations

onthemat • December 5, 2015

I honestly didn’t know what to expect from my body in my first ever yoga-for-30-days experiment. I was a little worried about an ongoing injury that I’ve nursed for many many years, doing just enough yoga to keep it loose but not enough to injure it further. I hoped that daily practice wouldn’t aggravate it […]

I honestly didn’t know what to expect from my body in my first ever yoga-for-30-days experiment . I was a little worried about an ongoing injury that I’ve nursed for many many years, doing just enough yoga to keep it loose but not enough to injure it further. I hoped that daily practice wouldn’t aggravate it beyond the comfortable twinge I’m used to. I jumped in head first to this challenge eager to see what would happen, leaving all expectations elsewhere and thankfully confident in my ability to take care of myself in each pose. What I didn’t expect was by taking classes from a wide array of teachers, each with their own bag of yoga tricks, that my injured body part would not only improve but it would get stronger. Maybe I’d been too careful. Maybe I’d unconsciously protected it from further harm when I should have worked to make it stronger. Yoga is meant to be a daily practice with no expectations about your physical, mental or emotional state. Getting on your mat every day allows you the time and space to check in and see what’s going on. It’s not always pretty or predictable or pain-free. It’s just you.

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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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