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+ Show Up Everyday +
The purpose of this blog is to show up everyday.
It’s not about making or not making excuses.
Or being aggressive in meeting a goal.
We are most comfortable when we have some idea of what we may be getting ourselves into. We like predictability when we think we are going to be challenged.
Showing up everyday is about supporting what I love most and recognizing that that takes a little work.
It’s about creating new space for beauty, appreciation and play and getting to fill that space everyday.
Show up everyday and see what happens. Because you don’t know what will and what hasn’t been experienced yet you will like even more than the comfort of predictability. It’s worth the effort – I promise.
Create New Space > Show up Everyday
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The Purpose of this Blog ……
….. is to show up everyday.
Everyday to have a conversation, an exchange about what I find interesting in my life in art, yoga, in Minneapolis and in my travels. To convey that in a conversational format where we can relate and inspire each other in our everyday lives.
But quite frankly the Oscars are on tonight and I have to get ready.
We still haven’t decided if we are having pot roast or tacos. And I’m what am I going to wear?
Even as Lincoln Daniel Day Lewis is such a hottie. And I can’t wait to hear Adele sing.
Have fun tonight, L
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Soon Enough ..
.. 25 more days but who’s counting?
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= SET STRONG ROOTS =
Registration is now open for the 2nd of the DIGGING DEEPER ROOTS workshop series I’m teaching w the lovely Meg Abene Newlin:
“Setting Strong Roots” Exploring Mantra, Puja & Pranayama
Saturday & Sunday March 16-17 from 11:00-5:00 (w a break for lunch) $150
The Garden begins to grow. With a foundational understanding of what yoga philosophy means to us we can now start to dig a little deeper. During this weekend we will explore the rituals of mantra, puja and pranayama as means to nurture and fortify our yoga practices. As we practice we grow and with that we set strong roots as we go.
I’m really looking forward to this weekend. Having a puja in the studio adds such a lovely element. Understanding it’s purpose and what it encompasses will give you so much more appreciation for its presence. I’m looking forward to the conversation with anyone and everyone who’s interested.
to register:
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^ ARM BALANCE ^
I’m thinking Arm Balances tonight. We had a blast with Bakhasana on Sunday night and I think we’ll build on that. It’ll be fun. You should come.
See you @ 630
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* MOVEMENT is Another Form of THINKING *
To talk about painting is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too.
You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing, what language can communicate.
Painting has nothing to do with that.
That includes the typical question: “What were you thinking of?” You can’t think of anything.
Painting is another form of thinking.
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Obviously Gerhard Richter is a bad ass.
He has skill. And vision. He can create and manipulate images to create something so beautiful. But he also has a belief in painting as a complete form of expression. He gives the painting a voice as it grows and lets the process take the lead:
The paintings do what they want. I planned something totally different.
Sometimes I think the same about yoga. There is a lot of talk, sometimes too much.
We roll out our mats and begin to move. The skill takes us through safely as we go. We have an idea of what it is we want to do: stretch, get grounded, open up, feel better, etc… What we think begins to give way. We move from our heads into the landscape of our bodies and we just go. We move with skill. And with vision. An image starts to come together and we follow.
Movement is another form of thinking.
/// Getting Closer ///
Down to weeks now. Daylight Savings is just over 2 weeks away. I miss rain and green.
This time of year flowers are like jewels.
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+ A GARDEN is for the FUTURE +
If you don’t plow the earth, it’s going to get so hard nothing grows in it.
You just plow the earth of yourself.
You just get moving.
And even don’t ask exactly what’s going to happen.
You allow yourself to move around, and you will see the benefit.
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You just plow the earth of yourself is almost worthy of a mural all on it’s own.
Almost but we’d get a little lost and start filling blanks w jokes with out the rest of it. Rumi had me at that line, it just fits so perfectly w our exploration of making our ideas physical, winter being the time of planting the seeds of those ideas in the earth of our bodies and such. Obviously with out the ground of our bodies we have nothing to create a future from. It seems so obvious yet we will spend our lives trying to remember that – our bodies are the grounds of our future. We have to include our physical, earthy existence in our ideas and spend some time out of our heads – bring the lofty ideas of imagination – sky down to the earth you could say.
Capacity vs Control. It’s easy to stay in the comfort of our heads, our imaginations. It keeps us in control of what we are sure we can do with out trying and having to fail and repeat ourselves again and again and again. But we get more capacity, create more room to grow by turning the soil over so to speak in an attempt to make something out of ourselves, our worlds. Without space to move into nothing can grow. And for that space we need to create more capacity. Otherwise we become stagnant, stuck in our heads with good ideas but where nothing can really be a part of the world outside ourselves.
Om Namah Shivaya – just get moving, step into the cycle. Plant the seed of your imagination in the earth of yourself and turn it over again and again and again until it has room to grow.
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