Sunday, November 24, 2013

Meetings and partings

A sojourn, this life

I am not for any anyone,
I seek none for myself.  

A home I find, 
In the place called heart.

All come there;
a brief visit,
a smile, a word.

When all are gone,
I rest my self
In this home, the heart.  


Sunday, November 17, 2013

Costa Rica, November Full Moon


The above words came soon after I finished meditating on the beach in Cahuita.  

The last five weeks have been busy, spent with six students, guiding, coaching and assessing them in their yoga teacher training.  

Each person who immerses themself in this journey of yoga comes out on the other side - changed in more then one way.  The long hours of the training are challenging and demanding.  Sometimes a person is faced with their fears and at times the strong filters of conditioning are brought to the forefront.  

Through all this, I am happy that Malorie, Lyndi, Chelsea, Joice, Rhéline and Miranda, came out smiling, confident and ready to share their practice.  

And now it's time to relax in Cahuita. A full moon dance, a day spent in the sunshine of the beach, sand and ocean and this evening teaching and sharing a yoga practice by the evening light, besides the poolside.  

The clouds parted and the full moon was a sight to behold, brilliant and shining, reassuring as the next breath.  

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Meditation


The birds have flown into the sky,
The last cloud drifts away;

We sit together, the mountain and me,
Until only the mountain remains.  

Lao Tsu