My New Yoga Community~ Day #4 (Week 3) 

  • By Judy Bramhall
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  • 23 Apr, 2020
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April 23

Practicing alone. Alone alone, alone together or together-together; they’re vastly different yet equally valuable. In the end it’s a wash. Practicing is practicing, whenever, wherever, whatever. In my current housing situation, my yoga community is small but thrilling. My daughter and her fiancé are acro-yogis, short for acrobatic yoga, the ultimate together-together practice. A former gymnast, acro-yoga fulfills my daughter’s love of acrobatics and keeps her fit. She lucked out that her boyfriend was willing to learn, or maybe that’s what love’s all about. Anyway, three years into their practice, I marvel at their intensity, their devotion to their practice. Every day after work, they practice new routines, old routines, they attempt new moves, they repeat old moves with focus and pure passion. As they’re living in their own little house up the hill, I don’t actually watch them practice; I watch the videos which highlight the process, including the stumbles and the successes. Lately, with more time on their hands, and with friends hungry to learn, they’ve been making tutorials. My husband and I gave it a try the other day. Suffice it to say, with close to 20 years of regular yoga under my belt, I was humbled by its difficulty, the strength and balance needed even for the simplest of poses. My respect for their practice has grown exponentially, a silver lining to this messed up moment. It’s given us the gift of time with our children, as challenging as it is at times. After years of empty-nesting, this means sharing our daily lives with our fully-independent, adult children. I am happy to have the time to learn how they spend their days - how hard they work at their jobs, how and when they exercise, how they relax after work, what and when they eat, how they relate to each other and to us - all things I haven’t been a part of for years. Now, if it lasts until 2021, the shine might wear off. In the meantime, check out acro.and.chill on Instagram. And take a tutorial if you dare.

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Heart~ Day #7 (Week #4)

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  

SUN!~ Day #6 (Week #4)

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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