Middle of the Day Restorative Yoga Practice
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Sun Burning Through Clouds
We need protection from the sun as much as we need the sun. The yogi philosophers could perhaps point to this pair of opposing forces/needs as an example of the elemental pulsation of opposites (spanda) that is universal to all manifest being.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Art Around Town
I happened upon these tigers when I was out walking. I refrain from photos of the buds that are about to bust open despite the sudden freeze.
Signs Around Town (and International Women’s Day)
In the window at Clothes Encounters–a woman-owned small business on Capitol Hill. I wasn’t feeling the need to bring anything new into my closet, but I went in to say how much I liked the sign. I enjoyed trying on a tourmaline necklace that looked like it came from India.
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Found Exhortation (Ambiguous)
Is that:
1. Telling “love”, the emotion to be kind?
2. Imploring the writer’s loved one to be kind?
3. Suggesting to be kind by loving?
4. Exhorting one and all both to be kind and to love? You Will Also Need Love
A year ago I met Maitri, then being called Banana, in foster care. In honor of our anniversary, here’s another day of Maitri pictures, along with an excerpt from Layla F Saad’s “Me and White Supremacy.” (Note: DC residents, DC public library has made an unlimited number of e-books available to borrow.)
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Found Exhortation (and Tapas)
What does it mean to excel, to do well? I think there is no excelling in yoga, at least not the way we conventionally think of excelling in school or career or sports. But to practice in a way that is more than casual, there must be ardor–tapas.
Tapas is often translated as fire, and the texts are full of stories of outrageous physical exertions done to prove the tapas of the practitioners looking for boons from the gods.
There is a fiery aspect to tapas, but I question whether it must necessarily be burning from physical exertion, though that is a path that calls out to many.
The fire of tapas could be thought of as doing what it takes to manifest the will to know something deeply enough to be able to experience the fluency and grace and delight of expertise. It could be the ardor to show up in a disciplined and committed way for hours and days and years of practice, always still wanting deeper, fuller knowing.