Recovery~ Day #7 (Week 2)

Richard Fahlander • April 19, 2020

April 19

Last fall, I underwent significant surgery that altered my life and required many months of healing. Fortunately, I had my yoga practice to physically and mentally prepare me for surgery, guide me through the tough times, and take me beyond. The most powerful way that yoga made a difference is gratitude – appreciation for all the people caring for me and all the resources marshaled on my behalf.

As we all deal with the effects of Covid-19, let us be thankful for the scientists, health care professionals, retail clerks, farm workers, delivery drivers and many others who provide our essentials. Their efforts and our collective willingness to physically distance speaks to a society committed to caring and not just consuming.

Healing from Covid will be a long and difficult process and a personal yoga practice can bring calm strength and resilience to the challenges ahead. Based on my personal healing experience, rather than react with rancor and recrimination, I encourage us all to pave the road to recovery with gratitude.


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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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