“What if our religion was each other.  If our practice was our life.  If prayer, our words?What if the temple was the earthIf forests were our churchIf holy water - the rivers, lakes and oceans.What if meditation was our relationshipsIf the Teacher was life, if wisdom was self-knowledge,If love was the center of our being?”

“What if our religion was each other.
If our practice was our life.
If prayer, our words?
What if the temple was the earth
If forests were our church
If holy water - the rivers, lakes and oceans.
What if meditation was our relationships
If the Teacher was life,
if wisdom was self-knowledge,
If love was the center of our being?”

The practice of being human

The struggle to be real

A sincere life 

Holding nothing back

Unrehearsed living

Living with the sacred

Steering our way to center

The fact of our oneness

Befriending the whole

Practicing change

The gift of surprise

The life of expression

The song of relationship

The rhythm of kindness

The feather of truth

Everything just as it is
We become the earth.


From the Exquisite Risk by Mark Nepo

What is Yoga?

When each posture becomes a prayer, when each breath becomes a poem, when every moment of my practice becomes a celebration of the Divine, I am doing Yoga!

Inspiration

You have two ways to live your life.  From memory or from inspiration, memories are simply old programs replaying, inspiration is the Divine giving you a message.  The only way to hear the Divine and receive messages, is to clear your memories and clear your mind.  by Dr. Hew Len

Listening

Our ears are the first organ to form in the embryo and the last organ to stop functioning at the time of death.  This highlights the importance of our ears, some ancient cultures believe our ears are the ‘gatesways to our soul’.  So when we slow down enough to really tune in to our ears; we learn how to listen more closely- not only to the conversations that we have, but also to the songs of nature, to the deeper more subtle sounds of the universe and ultimately to the very sounds of our soul.

So to improve your listening skills, take time out to be tranquil, try to live in the present at least some part of every day, observe yourself in conversations, become an alert but passive listener of others, nature and yourself.  Then let the magic begin!


Nature

When I roam lofty mountains I feel like my soul is raised on high and covered like the peaks in never melting caps of snow. 

 And when I descend into the valleys I feel deep and profound like them and my heart fills with mysterious shadows. 

 The same thing happens at the edge of the sea. There I merge with the surging waves: they pound and roar within me. When I gaze at the sky I expand. I become boundless, unlimited.  

 When I look at the stars, silence permeates me. 

When I see a flower the ecstasy of beauty overwhelms me. 

When I hear a bird singing, its songs is an echo of my own inner voice, and when I look into the eyes of an animal I see no difference between them and my own. 

Gradually my separate existence has vanished for the illusion that it was…. Only Peace remains.

by Unknown

Spaciousness

The Buddha’s words; “Make your mind vast as the sky.” When you are spacious in your mind, the sense of space makes worries and conflicts workable. When you are spacious in your heart, all your feelings and emotions are held with greater ease. When you are spacious in the body, caring attention and flexibility grow, and rigidity and fear diminish

Morning Prayer for expressing Gratitude

Gracious God, in the busy-ness of my day, I sometimes forget to stop to thank you for all that is good in my life.

My blessings are many and my heart is filled with gratefulness for the gift of living, for the ability to love and be loved, for the opportunity to see the everyday wonders of creation, for sleep and water, for a mind that thinks and a body that feels.

I thank you, too, for those things in my life that are less than I would hope them to be. Things that seem challenging, unfair, or difficult. When my heart feels stretched and empty, and pools of tears form in my weary eyes, still I rejoice that you are as near to me as my next breath and that in the midst of turbulence, I am growing and learning.

In the silence of my soul, I thank you most of all for your unconditional and eternal love.

Amen.

from prayers for living

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Gena Kenny, founder of Ohana Yoga & Wellness Centre, writes a weekly themed blog post about inspiration, creativity, and leading the life you want to live.


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