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December 28, 2013 In Uncategorized By elinore

Body Intelligence

Body Intelligence By Rumi Your intelligence is always with you, overseeing your body, even though you may not be aware of its work. if you start doing something against your health, your intelligence will eventually scold you. If it hadn’t been so lovingly close by, and so constantly monitoring, how could it rebuke? You and your...

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December 28, 2013 In Uncategorized By elinore

Sayings of the Buddha

Practice is the process of first observing your patterning or samskaras, learning to accept yourself as you are… Then the teachings serve as a guide for change. The twisting asanas (yoga postures) serve to first illuminate your unique relationship (and likely imbalance) between the left...

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December 28, 2013 In Uncategorized By elinore

Winter Wisdom

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great...

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May 8, 2012 In Uncategorized By elinore

It All Begins…

It all begins with a single step. It’s not that we get anywhere or accomplish anything in this process of effort and surrender but that we find ourselves back at the beginning each time we arrive onto the mat. We’re ALWAYS back at the beginning....

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May 8, 2012 In Uncategorized By elinore

Yogini Warrior

Here there is nothing to fight except willfulness. Some lean too far into the past. Others stretch way into the future. The true warrior stays in the moment, Burning deeper into whatever comes, Or sometimes with even more difficulty, what doesn’t....

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May 8, 2012 In Uncategorized By elinore

The Secret of Y•O•G•A

Perhaps the great secret of yoga and all spiritual sciences is allowing something to happen without “doing” it. It’s truly the balance of effort and surrender–duality. The great understanding and awareness of “allowing” things to happen. When we unite effort and surrender we “allow” the...

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May 8, 2012 In Uncategorized By elinore

The Knot

Untangling a knot that is my life the knot becomes my teacher. Gathering the threads into one, unraveling the closed up space a glimmer of light surfaces between strands. The needle that is sharp at dawn might be broken by dusk. The thread that is...

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May 7, 2012 In Uncategorized By elinore

योग Yoga

Yoga comes from the verbal root yuj ("to yoke"), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ("to yoke, harness, join"), whence also Proto-Indo-European noun yugóm that gave Sanskritयुग (yugá). Yoga means literally to yoke, join, unite or attach.   A sense of "exertion, endeavor, zeal, diligence" is found in Epic Sanskrit. Yoga as a system of meditation or contemplation with...

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