Day 25~ Everyday Everyway

onthemat • December 20, 2017

It’s a busy holiday week ahead and how can we possibly make time for yoga? When I tell people that I’ve been doing yoga since last January, they often ask where and how often. After I give them the On the Mat pep talk, I say, “Actually, I’m kind of doing yoga most all the […]

It’s a busy holiday week ahead and how can we possibly make time for yoga? When I tell people that I’ve been doing yoga since last January, they often ask where and how often. After I give them the On the Mat pep talk, I say, “Actually, I’m kind of doing yoga most all the time.” I might be standing still talking to you at a holiday party, but inside and unseen I am also doing yoga. Stuck in traffic? How about breathing down my back from neck to hips. Frustrated by a long wait in line? How about mountain pose. As I write at the keyboard, I relax my shoulders back and wide. I press my heels to the floor with my inner thighs. I pace myself with breath. I close my eyes and search for the next sentence. I appreciate this exploration for a revelation that may or may not come. I am satisfied by my effort.

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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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