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“If It Was My Home”

ByElizabeth July 11, 2010

So hard to fathom.

Art and Culture | Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Gardening | Meditation | Photos

Azalea Walk at the National Arboretum (and Sadhana)
ByElizabeth April 18, 2010

As it is every year, the Azalea Walk at the National Arboretum fills me with joy and wonder. “Was it really this splendid last year?” one of my companions asked. “I go every year,” she said, “but I forget how gorgeous it is!” She comes back each year to remember the beauty and the awe. So, too, it can be with our practice. We stop going to class or practicing our meditation or asana for a while because we get too busy. Then we come back, and we ask ourselves how we could have forgotten the joy and beauty a steady practice brings us, and we are inspired to commit again.

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Found Exhortation
ByElizabeth June 29, 2016

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Sensing the Subtle Energies (an Earthquake)
ByElizabeth July 16, 2010July 16, 2010

I woke up around 4 o’clock this morning, inexplicably agitated and unable to fall back asleep right away. Sully, too, was restless. I went into the yoga room and did a series of restorative forward bends and twists, which provided some ease, but I was still a little restless and unable to go back to sleep.

It was too far out of my usual experience for living in DC and too little impact at my house (compared to what it was reported to have felt like in some of the suburban areas) to have identified the earthquake for what it was.

When I called the weather, which advised of the earthquake, I knew that its immanence was what had caused me to wake in anticipatory anxiety.

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Irises at William Penn House
ByElizabeth May 14, 2014

Come join us for yoga on some Tuesday night soon. Things always feel a little more at peace with the yoga. That all proceeds every week go to the work camp program makes it even more full as a practice.

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Reflection (Prakasha and Vimarsha)
ByElizabeth January 30, 2024January 30, 2024

At the Thillai Kali temple in Chidambaram, and at other temples I am sure, but that was where I particularly noticed this aspect, there is a mirror on the altar, so that one also sees one’s reflection when watching the abhisheka puja.

One is there, too, along with the priests and the gods—watching and a part.

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Samsara
ByElizabeth October 30, 2023October 30, 2023

The seasons change no matter how humans are behaving. Grieving for all the nameless suffering and for a couple of friends who have died very recently. Please be kind with your tender hearts.

Here’s a bit of beauty.

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