gratitude
a friend /
to myself /
a safe home /
2024-07-14 20:29:45 +0000 UTC View Post
intertwining posts
how curious
the body always /
wants you /
to be /
curious /
about her /
curious /
like a child /
2024-07-12 15:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
i meet You
I meet you here
Meet you there
Nowhere
Do I know
Who you are
Each time
Each moment
We meet
For the first time
2024-07-07 17:39:11 +0000 UTC View Postclear ground
Rest in a natural way like a small child.
Rest like an ocean without waves.
Rest within clarity like a candle flame.
Rest without self-concerns like a human corpse.
Rest unmoving like a mountain.
- Milarepa
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[self portrait, many new moons ago]…
2024-07-07 17:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
holy solstice
more to come from this series. grateful to create with this human.
2024-06-20 13:47:22 +0000 UTC View Postwent out into the woods again
nature has no shame, i notice. “to feel the front pelvis open, cultivate a sense of shamelessness. think of what it felt like to have no shame, like a baby or a fetus.” —dr. rose erin vaughan
2024-06-17 20:44:37 +0000 UTC View Postaham prema
grateful to have best friends/angels who are my teachers. thank you for teaching me…♾️
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body
is home
earth
is home
to objectify
earth body
is to be
blind
may we see
2024-06-13 13:16:56 +0000 UTC View Postintegration (iii)
The reason we deepen formal practice is so that we can really work with the emotional states and turbulent thoughts that make us suffer. So that inside there's something real going on, that you can then use to effect change in the world around you. So you can be one with disease, your prison cell, your depression. That's yoga, in the biggest, most intimate sense. Yoga just means not trying to be one with something other than what's right here.
It's being fully yoked to your...
2024-06-11 19:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post
the middle way is the path of the Heart
self portraits in my dear heart friend’s home.
2024-06-10 13:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
self study
sometimes
i taste
the nectar
on the edge
of this knife
mind
sometimes
i bleed
and bleed
crimson
beautiful
terrible!
noticing
the ambrosia
and the blood
ripple out
cyclic
perfect
a year ago
a year ago, for hours in silence, a friend painted Tara on my body. her name means star. she is the essence of liberation.
life is hard. through it all, she guides me. the star of Liberation.
“When requesting Tara to free us, we are actually calling upon our inner Tara—the seeds of our own wisdom and compassion.”
Through practice over a long period of time, we generate the wisdom that realizes emptiness, and through meditating on this, the mind is cleansed of defile...
2024-05-28 01:10:03 +0000 UTC View Postjai kali
Kali is a tornado. Kali is the Eye of the storm, on fire. Black Kali, the pregnant moon, Kali the seductress sun, swallowing the moon—herself—whole. Kali Mom, Kali the Father.
2024-05-21 11:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post
reindeer heart.
The birth of the warrior is like the first growth of the reindeer’s horns. At first, the horns are very soft and almost rubbery. . . . When a reindeer first grows its horns, it doesn’t know what to use them for. It must feel very awkward to have those soft lumpy growths on your head. But then the reindeer begins to realize that it should have horns: that horns are a natural part of being a reindeer. In the same way, when the human being first gives birth to the tender heart of warrior...
2024-05-14 11:14:32 +0000 UTC View Postthe light and the dark are the same.
yoga is the unbuilding of the story you’ve made up.
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hatha yoga is to understand the body/mind, only to realize you’re not either of them. there’s something beyond that’s animating, illuminating body/mind.
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the Heart leads one beyond.
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today i heard these words from a great teacher. it is helpful to remind myself these things, as someone who loves storytelling and passion. there must be a middle ...
2024-05-12 20:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post
end of april reflections.
“the mind is like mercury”
electric and powerful
can be toxic/poisonous
can be used to extract gold (essence)
amalgamates with the elements (body)
2024-04-22 00:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post
second half of hyacinth series
do you prefer black and white, or color?
2024-04-16 12:04:33 +0000 UTC View Postsuppression becomes expression
half the series …….. other half coming ✨🌙🏹
2024-04-14 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post