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“There are three parts to every pose” the yogi says, “getting into the pose, getting out of the pose, and the pose itself.”
It clicks just before the landing; stay present during those expansive in-between spaces.
Summer always gives way to autumn.
🎼Songlines for the Shifting Season🎶
Beautiful Boy (John Lennon)
September Song (Agnes Obel)
Under Giant Trees (Agnes Obel)
Butterfly (India Arie)
Daydreams (William Goldstein)
Deep Night Cicada (Miyama Higurashi) Marshall McGuire & Riley Lee
Dream of the Moon Flower (Tsukikusa No Yume) Marshall McGuire & Riley Lee
September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Lose It (Oh Wonder)
Forever (Tina Malia)
Streamside (The Album Leaf)
“Magic is…the heart working with the fingers to remind the head how little it knows.”
-Adam Gopnik, The Real Work
The mighty oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
-Unknown
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable.
– Robert Henry
Love,
Love is a verb.
Love is an action word, fearless on my breath.
-Elizabeth Fraser|Massive Attack|Teardrop
“Whatever we do or whatever we do not do, we are practicing mudras, so it only makes sense to understand what is it we are doing.
–Indu Arora
You’ll figure it out.
If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.
John Lennon
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Earlier this month, I received a special gift from a fellow yogi: a full 60-minute playlist of Beatles love songs to use in our Valentine’s Day class. This gift inspired a contest – whoever guessed the number of times the word “love” occurred in the lyrics during the class won a prize. It was SO much fun!
In appreciation for the playlist, I compiled a list of Beatles lyrics and quotes in the spirit of yoga wisdom. Each quote went down on a little decorated card and was placed inside a repurposed Altoids Tin.
Have you ever liked a song so much that you listen to it a gazillion times and you think you have the song all figured out, then years pass and you grow out of that song and move on to other songs until one day you hear the same old song again, but suddenly something in that old, tricky song has shifted and a whole new world of meaning opens?
Of course, it’s the listener that’s changed, not the song, right? Hmmmm…or is it?
No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
–Heraclitus
Or perhaps it’s the zeitgeist that changed. On a grand scale, I think this happened in the collective consciousness with the song, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” on the wake of the “Me Too Movement.” What seems like the innocent flirtation of one era turns into nefarious intent in another era.
Recently I experienced a song’s shift (in a good way) when I heard Madonna’s “Vogue.” ‘What just happened here? ‘ I wondered to myself after hearing the song with these 2020 ears. There was a lot more depth there than I remembered there being in 1990 when I first heard it. (Can y’all believe that song is 30 years old now?!) I had to go look up the lyrics and then the etymology of the word “vogue” to discover that in addition to the “fashion forward” meaning of the word, it’s also a boating term indicating the “drift, swaying motion (of a boat).” It’s from Old French voguer, meaning “to row, sway, set sail.” [according to vogue | Search Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com)]
So this week in my classes we are going on a sailing adventure.
All you need is your own imagination
So use it that’s what it’s for
Go inside for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door
-Shep Pettibone & Madonna/Vogue
“The basic human need to be watched was once satisfied by God. Now the same functionality can be replicated with data-mining algorithms.”
–Morphius, Deus Ex
“…talent is no more than a clarity of doing, an embodied moment where spirit and hand are one.”
Mark Nepo
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