Love me, love me, love me – say you do. Let me fly away with you. For our love is like the wind. And wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress. Satisfy this hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart. For wild is the wind. You touch me – I hear…
Category: love
Heart Is Where The Home Is
In my last post, I wrote, “I feel at home in my heart these days.” What do I mean by that? In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the idea of “Samtosha” (sometimes spelled “Santosha”) signifies contentment. For me, cultivating Samtosha requires a combination of understanding, acceptance and surrender. When I feel upset or rattled or…
Focus: The Yoga Sutras – Love & Murder
Each morning when I rise, I try to spend about 30 minutes praying, meditating and doing some Pranayama. When I do, my soul feels infinitely more peaceful throughout whatever the day tosses my way. For me, this is the point of yoga. From what I’ve learned, this was also the point of yoga for the…
Focus: Abundance – Love & Light
I have long believed that people are beautiful beings, inside and out. Our humanness, our perfect imperfection, our state of constant growth gives me faith in the beauty of life as a whole. Tonight a street drunk and I watched a meteor fireball together. I was walking to yoga class when a huge white comet-looking…
I Know in My Heart…
Let’s wrap up our January/February class focus of HEART. We’ve physically exercised the heart-areas of the body and conceptually explored the heart chakra. Through anatomical focus on the neck, collar-bone, ribs and shoulder blades, we’ve felt the physical relationships among body parts. Through concepts such as “the heart’s desire,” “following the heart,” and “love,” we’ve…
Consider Love
Love is not a feeling; it’s an ability. – Marty to Dan in “Dan in Real Life” Am I able to love? More importantly – am I able to post a blog about love in a timely fashion? Hehe. I intended to write about love on Valentine’s Day, before teaching my evening yoga class last…
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