Walking the Wellness Path with Trish-- Massage as a Tool For Enlightenment

Walking the Wellness Path with Trish is a series of episodes offered random and recorded raw-- those footsteps you hear are mine :O Healing contemplation and well-being insights enthusiastically present themselves on my daily walks. Sometimes gold, sometimes dust :/ always spontaneous.
If they spark something in you, I'd love to hear about it. Trish

The Signature of All Things

“Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifests the hidden.””
— Paracelsus, physician, alchemist, 1493-1541

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the book The Signature of All Things about the life of Paracelsus an amazing woman for her time (actually, for any time). It is a beautiful read about a powerful woman who did that which was unthought of in her day.

Maria Popova; Bloom

Art by Kris Wahlder

“Two hundred million years ago, long before we walked the Earth, it was a world of cold-blooded creatures and dull color — a kind of terrestrial sea of brown and green. There were plants, but their reproduction was a tenuous game of chance — they released their pollen into the wind, into the water, against the staggering improbability that it might reach another member of their species. No algorithm, no swipe — just chance.

But then, in the Cretaceous period, flowers appeared and carpeted the world with astonishing rapidity — because, in some poetic sense, they invented love.

Once there were flowers, there were fruit — that transcendent alchemy of sunlight into sugar. Once there were fruit, plants could enlist the help of animals in a kind of trade: sweetness for a lift to a mate. Animals savored the sugars in fruit, converted them into energy and proteins, and a new world of warm-blooded mammals came alive.

Without flowers, there would be no us.

No poetry.”

Maria Popova, The Marginalian

I Hope Today is A Beauty

Art by bellart.com

I hope today is uplifting for you
That you are buoyed by your love of self.
I hope today is the day you need
To understand the beauty that you are.
I hope today you look within &
See the power of your own magnificence
I hope today is the day
You feel your whole self and comfortably sink in
While at once rising above.

Tricia

Peacefulness Bound

We need your voice quit hiding in the closet

Your creative streak mines a valuable deposit

In the coffers of the Earth and the great human spirit

Can you feel it? Smell it? Taste it? Can you hear it?

The days of self doubt and tamping down are through

You are needed to help the collective pull through

The sludge of this patriarchal nightmare breaks down

Revealing an equity— we’re peacefulness-bound

Bring out your voice, your words, your kindness

Your spontaneous true heart— let yourself find this

The energy that keeps us all afloat 

Must come from dispelling the fears by rote

Say what you feel, dive into that pool

Free to tell the tale, be daring, be cool

The only way to uncover this prosperous bliss

Is to speak out in tumultuous times like this.

Tricia Schwaba 2020

 
 

When We Practice Yoga...

When we practice yoga we take it pose by pose allowing ourselves to, in real time, nurture the philosophy of living in the moment. Each pose offers us a prospective reminder that life is better lived when we understand that this moment is what we have. In the midst of a aligning, adjusting and breathing into the pose, lies the benefit of being focused on the moment at hand. The physical body and the directing mind are the vehicles for that focus.

Tricia Schwaba

Thich Nhat Hanh on Breathing

“Breathing in, I calm my body.” Reciting this line is like drinking a glass of cool lemonade on a hot day—you can feel the coolness permeate your body. When I breathe in and recite this line, I actually feel my breath calming my body and mind. “Breathing out, I smile.” You know a smile can relax hundreds of muscles in your face. Wearing a smile on your face is a sign that you are master of yourself. “Dwelling in the present moment.” While I sit here, I don’t think of anything else. I sit here, and I know exactly where I am.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh