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All the water that will ever be is, right now.
~National Geographic, October 1993
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Someone in the desert was crying out for you.
Bad Water Basin salting up Death Valley
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Someone elsewhere was drowning.
Mississippi River gushing between Tennessee & Arkansas
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Someone was learning to swim in your deep end.
Pacific Ocean inviting us to the deep
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Someone was propelling herself forward through you.
Nameless water in her aquarium with jellyfish
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Someone saw herself in you.
Woodward Park Reflecting Pool reflecting the things above
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Someone saw you in the heavens.
Anonymous water fueling rainbows in the Memphis sky
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There are not enough lips to utter
All your fleeting names, O waterI would have to say them in every tongue
Pronouncing all the vowels at onceWislawa Szymborska, (Excerpt from a translation of Water. Read the beautiful poem here).
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My Svadhisthana Inspiration Playlist
Dear Island, ≈∝≈ Joseph Michael
Sleepwalk ≈∝≈ Kalani
Clare de Lune ≈∝≈ Kerrilyn Renshaw ≈∝≈ Classical Relaxation Piano with Soothing Ocean Sounds
Moonlight Sonata ≈∝≈ Chie Nagatani ≈∝≈ Classical Relaxation Piano with Soothing Ocean Sounds
(ok, absolutely anything and everything from the Classical Relaxation Piano with Soothing Ocean Sounds Album)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow ≈∝≈ Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Heaven ≈∝≈ DJ Sammy
I Want Your Sex ≈∝≈ George Michael
The Seal Lullabye ≈∝≈ Voces8 & Lavinia Meijer
As the Water… ≈∝≈ John Williams
Erotic City ≈∝≈ Prince
Orinoco Flow ≈∝≈ Enya
Overflow of Love ≈∝≈ Alexandre Desplat ≈∝≈ The Shape of Water
The Women of Water ≈∝≈ Lin Hai ≈∝≈ Empire of Silver
Made of Water ≈∝≈ Tom Wisner
Feelin’ Love ≈∝≈ Paula Cole
Roots! Bloody Roots!
Roots! Bloody Roots!
Roots! Bloody
Roots! Roots!
Bloody
Roots
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~Max Cavalera, Sepultura
Today I’m sharing another page from my yoga planning journal. This is one page from a series that revolves around the chakras. This page’s concepts were field tested and taught last fall. We spent several classes exploring the qualities of stability, solidity, focus, and form in the body. I am gearing up to revisit the topic in upcoming classes. The concepts came from a workshop with Shala Worseley and from Anodea Judith’s Wheels of Life and from musicians referenced in the playlist below.
Muladhara is not an easy theme for me to teach as I’m prone to zipping and buzzing about in flights of fancy. Fortunately, I have a good friend in Yip, who is willing to sit with me and help me settle down.
Muladhara Playlist
The Mystery ¤ Michael Mandrell & Benjy Wertheimer
Beethoven Symphony No. 7-11 ¤ Beethoven ¤ Speaking Unto Nations ¤ Terry Davies
Earth and Sky ¤ Terry Oldfield
Shadow ¤ Tim Rayborn
Te Amo ¤ Armand Amar
Terra Di Siena ¤ Music for Deep Relaxation
Terra incognita ¤ Armand Amar
Patience ¤ Buddha Spirit
Travail ¤ John G. Elliot
The Suit ¤ Rachel Portman ¤ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Passacaglia ¤ Secret Garden
Priya (Beloved) ¤ Michael Mandrell & Benjy Wertheimer
Like a Mountain ¤ Peter Mayer
Gravity ¤ John Mayer
Lullaby ¤ Tina Malia
Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly, and all the time, though we must regularly and everyday give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
–Brenda Ueland
A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.
-African Proverb
This is a work in progress…I’ll explain later.