My shadow played a bass clarinet
Category: Sequence
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
What stirs our memory? What shape does it take? How does it bind us deeper in our web of connection?
The sleep of the just after
That we can know we were sleeping suggests that there’s something in us that is beyond sleep.
Golden Slumbers
We can sleepwalk through our time, or we can resolve to be present, no matter the challenge. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy, and we may need to find the particular tools that help us do so, but it’s possible–it’s our birthright.
Telling stories
Narrative can be a useful tool; it can help us see patterns, help us explore experience, help us forge connections. But it also has the power to overwhelm reality.
Using your illusion
We are constantly imagining the the world as other than it is. The question is whether we will use this imagination as a tool for growth, or an excuse to stay the same.
+10 | Regular, Virabhadrasana II, Virabhadrasana 1 > Parsvottanasana, Parivrtta Parsvakonasana |
+25 | Arhda Hanumanasana, Baddha Parsvakonasana > Baddha Trikonasana > Ganapati’s Trunk > Svarga Dvijasana, Navasana > Ardha Navasana |
+40 | Adho Mukha Vrksasana, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana, Agnistambhasana |
+55 | Setubandhasana, Urdhva Dhanurasana (Partners, Regular), Utthanasana (Partner) |
+70 | Janu Sirsasana (Regular, Parivrtta), Omega, Dwi Pada Yogidandasana, Shavasana |
We each have our unique quality, but our human experience will always hold much in common.
+10 | Anjaneyasana, Virabhadrasana I Lunge (with block under knee almost twist), Parivrtta Parsvakonasana |
+25 | Parsvakonasana > Trikonasana, Ardha Vasisthasana (as psoas stretch), Navasana > Ardha Navasana, Eka Pada Bhujasana |
+40 | Lunge (at wall), Adho Mukha Vrksasana, Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (Block under knee, Turn toward knee) |
+55 | Shalabhasana (Hands on hips individual legs), Setubandhasana (Asymmetrical block), Gomukhasana > Ardha Matseyandrasana |
+70 | Janu Sirsasana, Omega, Dwi Pada Yogidandasana, Shavasana |
Thinks like me
There’s no experience we’ve had that is so unique that it can’t be shared.
The courage to be right
Being courageous in our convictions means keeping them even when we cannot reshape the world to reflect them.
How to be wrong with conviction
There’s no virtue in being right, only in being free.