In the last class she taught before leaving for India, Rajashree read to us (during final savasana) a beautiful poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer that illustrates the importance of shedding the false identity we develop throughout our lives in the interest of getting in touch with the true Self, as well as living each moment fully [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Inspired'
As I Lay Dying
October 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Inspired, The Yoga Diaries
I’m dying. I must be dying, because my life is flashing before my eyes. Well, “flashing” is not totally accurate: my life is floating before my eyes, the landscape of my memory refusing to fade, not forgetting any line or curve, nor any corner or edge. Scenes linger for longer than is comfortable, rebirthed and [...]
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And then, summer rain…
July 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Arts and Culture, Inspired
I awoke a couple of nights ago to the sound of rain at my window. Living in Vancouver, this is a sound I’m very familiar with and it usually passes through my auditory system and Wernicke’s area with scarcely more than a moment’s thought. This sound is mostly background noise to me, but sometimes it [...]
Lonely is healing if you make it
March 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Arts and Culture, Inspired, Poetry
A friend recently showed me this beautiful little video by Tanya Davis called How to Be Alone, which, unsurprisingly, is about being okay (and ultimately being happy) with being alone. I was moved by the simplicity and truth in this lovely little poem, and inspired by her uniquely courageous and unapologetic perspective of solitude and [...]
Marvel at Nature
March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · Inspired
In the case of the seahorse, it’s the female that deposits up to 1,500 eggs into the male’s brood pouch. The male carries these eggs for a period between nine and 45 days (kind of incredible that the gestation period can vary so greatly) before releasing tiny but fully-developed seahorses into the water…and then taking [...]
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Irina Werning Photography: Back to the Future
February 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Arts and Culture, Inspired
Lately I’ve been having dreams in which I’m my adult self reliving one of my childhood memories. In these dreams, sometimes the present me interacts with the past me; sometimes the present me is the past me; and still other times the present me becomes the past me, or vice versa. I often wonder how [...]
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Lhasa de Sela and Beautiful Sea Creatures
December 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Inspired
I often look to art, music, and literature for inspiration, and sometimes I’m sweetly surprised by an unexpected encounter with something that moves my soul and incites a creative fire in my heart. The photos below from underwater shoots are so ethereal and full of whimsy that they send me straight into lovely daydreams of [...]
Fridge Magnet Poetry – Our War is Your War
May 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Inspired
You like a black & white photo and I a moment in time. we shot them down & cool red blood traded life for death. we create shape you said, but what did we want in a life as sordid as this? Note: this poem was actually written with fridge magnets, a feat that [...]
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