Trust THAT Voice
10/30/20 Brene Brown
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows form that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
Love is not something we give or get, it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them—we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
Brene Brown from Daring Greatly
Yoga Closing 10/28/20
artwork source: Anon
“The Buddhists speak of developing an abiding calm. A centeredness that is unshakeable. Like a tall tree so rooted in the Earth that great winds cannot topple it. This for me is the image of contentment. It means not riding the waves of the ups & downs of life. It means that we not only agree to what is in the moment, but we actually welcome it. It means that in all the noise and demands of modernity, we stay in the abiding calm center. This is the mastery of life that contentment invites us into. The practice of gratitude and “non-seeking” can help us stay rooted in this jewel.”
Deborah Adele, The Yamas & the Niyamas
Yoga Closing 10/23/20
Yoga Closing 10/16/2020
Artwork: Pablo Picasso
“The physical world is our creation: we each create our own version of the world, our particular reality, our unique life experience. Because my life is being created through my channel, I can look at my creation to get feedback about myself. Just as an artist looks at her creation to see what works well and what doesn’t, we can look at the ongoing masterwork of our lives to appreciate who we are and to recognize what we still need to learn. We’re creating our lives as we go along; therefore our experiences and needs give us an instant ongoing reflection of ourselves. In fact the external world is like a giant mirror which reflects both our spirits and our forms clearly and accurately. Once we have learned how to look into it and perceive and interpret its reflection, we have a fabulous tool.”
Shakti Gawain from her book Living in the Light
Mission Statement by Tricia Schwaba
from the archives: written by Tricia Schwaba 2011
Yoga Closing 10/12/20
Brian Andres from his book, Something Like Magic
October
“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.”
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Yoga Closing 10/7/20
Free Writing by Elliott
Aptitude test
Bees scare the shit out of me
Cinemas are a thing of past
Dragnet
Excellent choice of a word.
Fuck
Gorillas
Harmony
Illusion
Jack of all trades
Flying a kite as a kid
Laughable loons
Memory fails in old age
Nonsense
Outrageous
Perpetual
Quite at night
Resting sound asleep
Standards in life have been altered
Train wreck of the year 2020
Victory for blue in November
Weather related
X marks the spot
Yellow mustard on my sandwich
Zoom meetings suck
Elliott From 9/2020
Yoga Closing 10/5/2020
Yoga Closing 9/28/2020
Yoga Closing 9/25/2020, Brian Andreas
Do Your Thing
Photo source: Anon
“Do what you are called to do,
what you truly want to do
‘cause it isn’t going to go away, this feeling.
It’s just going to grow stronger. ”
Yoga Closing 9/21/20
“There is a seen order unfolding in front of us every day on our streets and in the news. In this visible order, violence reigns and children are shot in their schools and warmongers prosper and 1% of the world hoards half of all we have. We call this order of things reality. This is “the way things are.” It’s all we can see because it’s all we’ve ever seen. Yet something inside us rejects it. We know instinctively: This is not the intended order of things. This is not how things are meant to be. . We know that there is a better, truer, wilder way.That better way is the unseen order inside us. It is the vision we carry in our imagination about a truer, more beautiful world — one in which all children have enough to eat and we no longer kill each other and mothers do not have to cross deserts with their babies on their backs. This better idea is what Jews call Shalom, Buddhists call nirvana, Christians call heaven, Muslims call salaam, and many agnostics call peace. It is not a place out there — not yet; it’s the hopeful swelling in here, pressing through our skin, insisting that it is all meant to be more beautiful than this. And it can be, if we refuse to wait to die and “go to heaven” and instead find heaven inside us and give birth to it here and now. If we work to make the vision of the unseen order swelling inside us visible in our lives, homes and nations, we will make reality more beautiful. On Earth as it is in heaven. In our material world as it is in our imagination.”
Yoga Prayer 9/14/20
quote source unknown
Well
The well runs deeper than I could have imagined.
It dives, not just to the depth of me but to the depths of the Earth.
I have tried to sever the cord to my own frustration and to no avail.
I am here connected until other entities decide
It is time for my return.
So I continue to practice.
Tricia Schwaba, September 2020