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December 3rd, 2018

12/5/2018

 
This week let's explore the intersection of true strength [not simply rigidity], balance and flexibility and what they have to do with resilience and responsiveness on all levels of our being.

From Lama Yeshe and Jack Kornfield with a bit of editing from me: If [we] expect [our] life to be up and down, [our] mind will be much more peaceful.     Peace is born out of equanimity [upekshanam in Sanskrit - see Patanjali I.33] and balance. Balance [which requires inner strength] is flexibility, an ability to adjust graciously to change. Equanimity arises when [we begin by] accept[ing] the way things are....

Happy exploring!

26th November, 2018

12/5/2018

 
In our yoga, we practice being present and embodying Presence - being fully engaged in and as Life as it unfolds one moment into the next. A riff on the teaching of Alan Watts:

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other [nor forceful pushing into the future]. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind [body, heart] open and wholly receptive.

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    Misha Butot RCSW, ERYT 500 is a longtime clinical social worker and senior yoga teacher living in Victoria, BC

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