The truth can be tricky. It’s kinda of like looking out a window, seeing sunshine and believing that equals tank top weather, until you step outside and feel the frigid air blast your naked arms. The glass that lies between you and the weather, or truth, can be thick, discolored, and gussied up in all kinds of window dressings.
Read MoreWe have the ability to know ourselves and our inclinations, and the ways in which we be. We can jumpstart this ability today by owning our unknowing. We must recognize the disguise that sometimes we be being and believing we are something or someone that is not who we actually are. The ways that we be, or our vrtti’s can come in all different forms, some can be like a jump in the lake on a hot summers’ day, some can be like having an entire hornets nest simultaneously sting your face, and some can go from hot to cold and back again in seconds.
Read MoreSo there you are, being the sun, hanging out way up high, just burning all bright and glorious like you do and your life is happening down there on Earth. Since you are the Sun, one would think you’d be able to observe your life quite clearly, but what’s that? Oh dang, it’s hurricane Irma hurdling along directly below you, so now instead of seeing the interaction that you are having with your Dad, all you can see is torrential downpour and debilitating wind. In fact, even though it’s happening below you, you feel it, you actually feel like you are getting wet and windburn, which is as ridiculous as us believing we are our sadness or our pain, or our insecurities.
Read MoreYoga is the practice AND the big show. To be forthcoming, for me, she’s mostly the practice. Because even though I have an understanding that the big show is always right now, I still have trouble being the star. More times than not, I am thinking about how the choreography is “supposed” to go, what parts I keep chronically messing up and cannot seem to learn or unlearn, and how I wished I looked skinnier in my costumes.
Read MoreWe must find it within ourselves to connect with a trust beyond our daily roller coaster of emotions or flatlining with our non-emotions. We must be willing to explore the unknown with a knowing that there’s something incredibly magical about this existence. If we can trust that, than we are ready. We are ready to receive the golden ticket. We are ready to love ourselves and love our lives beyond our current limitations. This is Atha. This is Yoga. The journey of yoga begins with making this decision.
Read MoreI want to feel Peaceful which I have defined as: Present Energy Anointed, Cast, and Enjoyed for Ultimate Liberation. If I have the power to anoint or make sacred my presence in this present moment, then I have given myself the most epic opportunity ever, the chance to explore all that is right here for me to explore, like your smile, or the way the sunlight dances upon the ceiling, or the rare, one- of- a- kind painting on the sky canvas just begging me to look up and see her moment by moment masterpiece.
Read MoreWe have the power to dream so we must dare to do so if we want to realize a reality that is different from what is currently being served on the menu of mass manipulation. We get to change the entree’s, make up their names, season them with ingredients like integrity and creativity, and then savor in the flavor of our very own freedom feast.
Read MoreWhat if we decided that it’s more important to connect and converse than to agree, or that it’s more important to sing than to scroll, more important to watch the sky instead of the news, more important to put our feet in the earth than in shoes, more important to breathe than to bitch, and more important to have a relationship with fun rather than with phones.
Read More“Go with the flow,” might sound like helpful advice until we realize the flow isn’t really a flow, it’s a flood of fast food, pharmaceuticals, phones, and fake news. The flood waters are inhabited with some mighty shady characters named addiction, self-loathing, and fear. These characters are master manipulators and will absolutely hold you captive until you decide to be the captain.
Read MoreKarma’s a bitch….we’ve all heard that statement, or maybe even thrown it out like a dagger to pierce someone else’s or our own “bad” behavior. Poor Karma, she has taken the heat for way too long now and it’s time she be rescued, redeemed, and liberated to restore her good name. Karma tends to be used as a threat or an excuse to justify justifications of irresponsibility. She is constantly placed in either the good pile or the bad pile, but rarely where she belongs, in the neutral pile.
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