And the day came
January 24, 2009
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
—Anaïs Nin
2008 YDM Anusara Yoga Teacher Training Graduating Class
January 23, 2009
This is a beautiful picture of the 2008 Yoga Del Mar Anusara Teacher Training participants. Look at all of those radiant faces! What an incredibly talented group of women.
Magnificent Teachers in the Making
Photos from Ojai Retreat 2008
January 23, 2009
Here is a slide show of photos from our 2008 Weekend Retreat in Ojai Valley. We stayed at a beautiful historic craftsman home designed by visionary architects Greene & Greene.
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Campbell Quote: Rapture of Being Alive
January 22, 2009
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.
—Joseph Campbell
May you find the path
January 18, 2009
May you find the path that will lead youto the highest and truest of yourself.—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Journey
January 18, 2009
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice
though the whole house begain to tremble
and you felt the old tug at your ankles.
“Mend my life!” each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations, though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen branches and stones.
But little by little, as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly recognized as your own,
that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do the only thing you could do –
determined to save the only life that you could save
To see a world
January 18, 2009
To see a world in a grain of sandand heaven in a wild flower,hold infinity in the palm of your handand eternity in an hour—William Blake
So Fragile as We Grow
January 18, 2009
Someday you will hear all things applaud your wonder.
Life claps in awe of the Divine’s performance.
When your veil is removed, you, dear –
you, everyone — will see that your being is Holy.
Who would want to sand before a mirror that was shattered,
and thus distorts our beauty
that is so fragile
as we grow.
An oasis for all life the soul becomes
when it is unveiled.
What you see
January 18, 2009
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.—Henry David Thoreau
How Did The Rose?
January 18, 2009
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to the world all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light against its being, otherwise we all remain too frightened.
—Hafiz
