mindfulness Activities Blog #2

Oct 12, 2008, The Rests btween the Notes

The sun is slowly coming up over my street in Portland. I am so happy to be awake, and paying attention to this beauty.

Lately I have been back at it, like before I was sick, going going going, an endless day with hardly any night.

The places in the middle are where the yoga is. Yoga = union, two things coming together. Seams and midlines mark the places where yoga happens. Is it so surprising that the yoga postures deal with the joints, and with the tissues that connect our many parts to one another...

Paying attention to the spaces in life - how it feels to touch something, or someone (two things coming together) or how it feels to wait (two moments coming together) or how it feels to rest between the many responsibilites of our lives, is how we savor those lives. Savoring existence, and particularly the limitations, or boundaries of existence (and the seams those boundaries make) is the point.

We mustn't forget the yoga for all the poses...

I took yesterday off, but not entirely off. I had work to do for the studio, work around the house. It was a good start. But I am committed to taking a day off again, soon, a whole day, to walk in the woods, and pay attention to the space between summer and winter.

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