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“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
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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
Yoga Prayer 9/8/2020
“I sat in the garden that night & I thought about the most important thing for me. That we love & are loved. All the time in every moment, no matter how it looks to other eyes that don’t remember quite yet. That’s why I think remembering is one of the most important things we can do right now. It’s how we stop & see the world again for the very first time. In all of its aching beauty & joy & pain. the immensity of all of it. It’s how we open to being loved wildly & deliciously until we are filled beyond anything we ever thought we could hold.”
Brian Andreas, Something Like Magic
Nothing More
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I feel a rush as I take in the air
I’m approaching the North and my nostrils they flare.
I’m a racehorse trapped in the starting gate tight
Hearing the gunshot it’s time to take flight.
I shake off the saddle & break from the reins
Freedom from both limitation and pain
Skimming the Earth my spirit it soars
With grace and excitement, I need nothing more.
Tricia Schwaba August 2020
Yoga Prayer 9/2/20
Yoga Closing 8/31/20
Yoga Closing 8/24/2020, Success
Yoga Closing 8/21/20
Intentional Movement, Pay Attention!
No Obstacle Too Tall
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During moments when I feel connected to all
Nothing is impossible, no obstacle to tall
Then I flip to “all possibilities end”
Cry pitiful tears, pray, make amends.
Smiling as the winds blow back my hair
I vow one more time and this time I swear.
Tricia Schwaba August 2020
Yoga Closing 8/14/20 Women Warriors
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Yoga Closing 8/12/20
Love 8/7/2020 Yoga Closing
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Love is
The path and the destination
The true balancer of all creation.
The harmony we all seek.
The expansive mind.
The finite physical body
The peaceful purity of a joyful child.
The wisdom of the wrinkled face.
The reason for our existence.
Our essence.
Love is
The truth.
Tricia Schwaba, circa 2009
Bridle the Beast, From the Archives
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It’s the piece that stays with you
The one that won’t leave
The annoying brat that
Tugs at your sleeve
The haunting memory
That painful episode
The awkward rendezvous
That makes your head explode.
That which stays with you
Is the thing to examine
To gain some insight
To shift what will happen
So instead of the torment
You are blessed with release
Make peace with your past
Bridle the beast
From that moment on
Your days you may find
More peaceful and freer
As the tension unwinds
You may be astounded
By the expanse it creates
The gray of despair
Now colored with grace.
Tricia Schwaba, 2011
Yoga Closing 8/3/2020 Practice Surrender
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Heatherash Amara from her book Warrior Goddess Training
Yoga Closing 7/31/20
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“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 and downs of life. It means that we not only agree to what is in the moment, we 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.”
From Deborah Adele’s book The Yamas and the Niyamas
Marley Sue Flies Like An Eagle
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Bring Out Your Voice, From the archive.
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Bring out your voice
We have no choice
We can manifest change
Rid the world of the deranged
Don’t be the one to cower
Take cover when it starts to shower
Be the one soaked to the bone
Whose stamina stands alone.
The wind howls, the branches creak
This world it seems, is not for the meek
In times like these might’s in demand
No choice but for you to take a stand.
Tricia Schwaba, 2020