Posts made in August, 2009
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Bird Wings Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’ve been bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in...
Read MoreThe Knowing
Reading at Waimea practice - 08/22/09 The memory lies in us of how it could be in a loving relationship with one another, how it could be holy, filled with gentleness, kissed by heaven. And that love could be extended to everyone. There is somewhere within each of us a place where we remember and we know. It may have become but a faint whisper today, but when we are quiet, we hear it...
Read MoreCelebration of Life
On Sunday August 16 I had the honor of speaking at a celebration of life for a dear friend, a yogini who had recently passed from the earth plane to continue her journey after a 2 year long experience with cancer. The setting couldn’t have been more appropriate.. The Lawaii International Center‘s 88 sacred shrines stood like silent sentinels over the proceedings in which we...
Read MoreBaddha Konasana-Bound Angle and Savasana-Corpse Pose
Reading at Waimea 08/18/09 Baddha Konasana If you could call it perfection what would it look like? How would you know it, feel it, be it? Wherever you are now call it perfection and know that in this moment it is really enough.Savasana CORPSE Behold, The Dead teacher of The Dreamer whose lessons take a lifetime to learn. One third of our lives spent in the night yet we have trouble embracing the...
Read MoreReal Men Do Yoga—
Thanks to Kekaha Barb for finding this article/video on the yoga outreach – check it out! Real Men Do Yoga— Jai HO!!
Read MoreInspiration
Reading at Bodhi Tree(08/12/09) Anara Spa and Koloa Hong Wan JI (08/13/09) Inspiration by J. Ruth Gendler Inspiration is disturbing. She does not believe in guarantees or insurance or strict schedules. She is not interested in how well you write your grant proposal or what you do for a living or why you are too busy to see her. She will be there when you need her but you have to take it on trust....
Read MoreThe Only Child
Vibration of Wonder Reading from Anara Spa and Koloa practice 08/13/09 As your fortune comes to carry you down the line And you watch as the changes unfold And you sort among the stories you’ve been told If some pieces of the picture are hard to find And the answers to your questions are hard to hold Take good care of your mother When you’re making up your mind Should one thing or...
Read MoreStories and Feathers
Feathers Dance by Aspects of MK At one time Stories The clinging Painful, defining So real, Then A letting go A painful memory Now ignored Their beauty shunned Denied Cowed from Their lightness mistaken For lead. Being made ready The master gathers them all Laying them out so carefully Given to your hand So lovingly You hold each one up to the light Their plumes bathed in Brilliance The exact...
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