Love 8/7/2020 Yoga Closing
Art Source: Anon
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
Art Source: Finartamerica.com
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
Art Source: Anon
Heatherash Amara from her book Warrior Goddess Training
Yoga Closing 7/31/20
art 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 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
I’ve been honing my I Movie skills…
Bring Out Your Voice, From the archive.
art source: Anon
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
Yoga Closing 7/29/2020
art source: anon
“You don’t have to settle for poor health, but you do have to fight for good health on ethical terms. Do your research, experiment, try different things. Don’t assume that other people have anything figured out. Yoga is about figuring it out for yourself. “
Dr. Shyam Ranganathan
Heart Chakra
Clear Bright Blue
I venture into the gray of the morn,
offering a dreary day.
My thoughts though, are vibrant, clear bright blue,
a nudge from my angels I pray.
Living this life is a match sometimes;
the dark can slam me to the ground.
A shift in perspective is the merciful unwinding
of all the fear I have bound.
The farther I venture from the day I was born
the brighter my purpose it shines,
Appreciation for the day before me
& gratitude for this life that is mine.
Tricia Schwaba June 2020
My Safe Pocket
art source: safespace.com
I sit in my safe pocket of this ailing planet
Want to gain insight, take nothing for granted
I shiver at the notion that I may appear
To be grasping at straws that aren’t really there.
This insistent urge prompts me to sustain
This practice that leaves me naked, in pain
The notion that for some I may seem trite
Is one I wrestle with in the middle of night.
Yet go on, I do, at the risk of revealing
How distant I am from the exquisite healing.
My scars are many and I pretend not to see
My forgiving reflection as it stares back at me.
Those times I was cruel, thought myself above
The truth clear now, too far from self love
God takes my heart and breaks it wide open
It’s contents spill out stiff and frozen
My pains and regrets so tender and raw.
With warmth of love & acceptance, they thaw.
Tricia Schwaba May 2020
Yoga Closing 7/20/20, Alex Elle Quote
Tender Mercy
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Tender mercy offered in kind
Focus the vision follow the signs
Feel the beat resonance sweet
Rhythmic redemption cooling the heat
Energy in particles energy in waves
Soothe the sorrow karma erased
Open the portal to a new perspective
Colors alive, gratitude reflected
Mystery in tact walk through the door
And Earthly desires are burdens no more.
Tricia Schwaba, July 2020
Yoga Closing 7/17/20 Shakti Gawain
artwork source: Sherry Mayle
“As channels for the Universe, we must have available, a full range of expression and emotion. If the higher power tells us to leap, we must be able to leap without stopping to ask questions. If it tells us to wait, we must be able to relax and enjoy the space of non-activity until the next message comes. We will always be pushed to explore aspects of ourselves that are less developed to express and experience ourselves in new ways. If we ignore these inner impulses we will be forced by external life circumstances to explore our inner being anyway. One way or another our higher self makes sure that we get the message of what we have to do. We may have to go from one extreme to the other until we come into balance.
You can expect that your intuition will lead you in directions that are new and different for you. If you are comfortable in one type of personality or pattern, you will probably be asked to start expressing the opposite. It’s good to know this, especially when you’re in the process of learning to hear your inner voice. A good rule might be to, expect the unexpected.”
Clear Bright Blue
I venture into the gray of the morn,
offering a dreary day.
My thoughts though, are vibrant, clear bright blue,
a nudge from my angels I pray.
Living this life is a match sometimes;
the dark can slam me to the ground.
A shift in perspective is the merciful unwinding
of all the fear I have bound.
The farther I venture from the day I was born
the brighter my purpose it shines,
Appreciation for the day before me
& gratitude for this life that is mine.
Tricia Schwaba June 2020
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Light
There is a perfectly still moment right
before dawn, when the sun gathers itself
& then steps into the dark world & everything
is so filled with light that any doubts
from that long night are barely a memory.
It is the way of all things that
the night ends and the light returns.
The light always returns.
Brian Andreas, from Something Like Magic
Yoga Closing 7/11/20
“To me faith is not a public allegiance to a set of outer beliefs,
but a private surrendering to inner knowing.”
Glennon Doyle, from Untamed
A Meditation on Inner Peace
Bring yourself to center, and feel the grounding effects