Break the shell

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-Rumi

I taught a pose in yoga class last week called Svarga-dvijāsana, a pose often translated as bird of paradise, or "twice born" in Sanskrit. A bird is born once as an egg, and then is born a second time when it emerges from it's shell as a bird. In order for the bird to really live, the safe little shell in which it dwells must break and dissolve. A scary and painful process perhaps, and one that feels all too familiar these days.

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Life is messy. Dig deep.

“I had always imagined God to be in the same general direction as everything else that I valued: up. I had failed to appreciate the meaning of the description of God as the “ground of being.” I had to be forced underground before I could understand that the way to God is not up but down.”

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Practice love

Anyone whos ever taken a yoga class or been in the presence of yogis has heard of yoga being refered to as "a practice". Last year I was in Portland assisting a yoga workshop and recall the studio owner's 11 year old daughter asking her parents and I what we were practicing for.

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Even through the struggle

As I sat though my fourth chemotherapy treatment yesterday, I felt a rush of love for life as my dear friend Laurie and I talked about what we each felt most mattered in life. Having just lost her grand mother last week, she too came face to face with mortality and has been contemplating what kind of legacy she desires to leave behind. We laughed as we walked to the cancer agency, calling it the "spa" and acting as if we were just two girlfriends going for a a treatment, spending an afternoon together, reconnecting over coffee. And that's exactly what it became.

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On Healing

Healing means coming into wholeness by simplifying our thoughts, finding peace within the circumstances we face, and opening our deep heart and Spirit to mend our disconnection from the essencs of all life- Love.

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