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New Year’s Eve
I went to a two session workshop with Jessica Sandhu at Dupont Circle Yoga today, which, being New Year’s Eve, included an invitation to establish a sankalpa (which is something like setting an intention) and a yoga nidra practice to help instill it.
Then I walked home with the last of the afternoon sun and another spectacular sunset.
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Heading to Chennai to Fly Home
With one last visit at a Kali temple to say goodbye until next time.
Light and Shadow
It is pretty much always a dance between shadow and light, concealment and revelation. Can we remember the beauty of illumination when we are in the dark and the coolness of shadow when things feel too bright?
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Wonder
I’m pretty sure the Sanskrit word for wonder is abhuta. I found myself contemplating my conviction that part of the practice of yoga (and my photography, which is a practice for me) is to instill everything with a sense of wonder.
I still find plane travel–as wearily familiar as it is–completely miraculous and awe-inspiring.
To go, in just a few short hours, from perfectly temperate to cold and gray with an impending storm (and, of course the reverse) is an outrageous feat indeed. I’m happy to have the cat in my lap.
