Tricia Schwaba Yoga

Yoga Closing 27 20

Art Source: Anon

Art Source: Anon

“I don’t know how long I can do this, he said. I think the universe has different plans for me & we sat there in silence & I thought to myself that this is the thing that we all come to & this is the thing we all fight & if we are lucky enough to lose, our lives become beautiful with mystery again & I sat there silent because that is not something that can be said.”"

Alicia Keys Quote, Yoga Closing 5/6/20

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“Nothing but uncertainty is certain. Circumstances come together only to fall apart moments or months later. And then in a flash we rise up and regain our footing. In the rear view mirror I now see clearly what escaped me then. It’s not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting, it’s that it’s never still. That’s part of the work of my journey — getting comfortable with life’s groundlessness.” Alicia Keys

Pandemic by Rev. Lynn Ungar

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider
the Sabbath- the most sacred of times?
Cease from Travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now, on trying
to make the world different than it is.
Sing. Pray, Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down, and when your body becomes still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives are in one another’s hands.
(Surely that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out your tendrils of compassion
that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch.
Promise your world your love-
for better or worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we shall live.

Reverend Lynn Ungar

Certain Path of Love, Yoga Closing 2/28/20

Earth below, heaven above

Show me the certain path to love

Show me the beauty deep inside

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Where balanced and harmonious I can reside

Show me the way to the energy pure

Instead of passage to the ways things were.

Love restores my mind when weak

It leads me to this path I seek

It flags me down in times of doubt

Bringing a blessed turnabout

It seeks out peace when my mind’s a mess

Or I am feeling that I am somehow less.

Earth below, heaven above

Your grace it flies on the wings of doves

Brushing my soul, light strokes of faith

Gently dispelling harsh words of hate

Earth below, heaven above

I stand grateful on this path of love.                          

Tricia Schwaba, 2019