Day 25~ Reflections on Mat Placement

  • By onthemat
  • 27 Jan, 2017
Great class today, wicked hard and time to go nighty noodles. Thought for the day: My perfect spot in a yoga class is in the back, preferably in a corner. When I am late and no spots are available in the back, I tend to put my mat close to a wall up front. Problem […]
Great class today, wicked hard and time to go nighty noodles. Thought for the day: My perfect spot in a yoga class is in the back, preferably in a corner. When I am late and no spots are available in the back, I tend to put my mat close to a wall up front. Problem is, when we turn to said wall and everybody is behind me with no other yogis in sight, I am convinced I am doing something completely different then the rest of the class. Or possibly everybody has moved on to another series of poses and I am still standing their frozen in place. And when it is really quiet, I think could it be possible? could everybody have left the studio while I am left here holding warrior 2?

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By Linda Malcomb 03 May, 2020

“There is a light in the core of our being that calls us home—one that can only be seen with closed eyes; We can feel it as a radiance in the center of our chest. This light of loving awareness is always here, regardless of our conditioning. It does not matter how many dark paths we have traveled or how many wounds we have inflicted or sustained as we have unknowingly stumbled toward this inner radiance. It does not matter how long we have sleepwalked, seduced by our desires and fears. This call persists until it is answered, until we surrender to who we really are. When we do, we feel ourselves at home wherever we are. A hidden beauty reveals itself in our ordinary life. As the true nature of our Deep Hear is unveiled, we feel increasingly grateful for no reason—grateful to simply be.”

—John J. Prendergast, PHD, The Deep Heart  

By Linda Malcomb 02 May, 2020

Seems like it’s been rainy, windy, dreary for eons. Which may have helped us shelter inside a bit more. I remember reading years and years ago in a Seth book that weather can be influenced, and even created by mass human emotion. Why not? We are far more powerful than we currently acknowledge, and science is beginning to validate many phenomena that had seemed inconceivable before. Those seemingly endless days of “bad” weather seemed congruent with the emotional tone of covid her in New England. And now SUN! Glorious, warming, invigorating, hope-filled Sun! Today I will be outside basking and gardening and thanking. And I’m sure the whole neighborhood, and most of New England will go outside, stand with our faces to the sun and breathe a huge healing breath of joy. And maybe the collective energy of that will resonate out across the word as a promise of brighter days to come.     


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