Rewilding The Yoga Body

Originally posted on body divine yoga:
Recently a fb image of a young, white, lithe yogini balancing in an extremely deep back bend disturbed me. Not because she was just another example of the yoga Barbie -er yoga body –which saturates my yoga feed, but because she was posing in a sun-dappled forest grove accompanied…

Waking UP: Women’s Cycles & Earth Cycles as One.

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The body it reminds you

Sister leans over, says I smell rain. As soon as it’s said, there it is, the dirt-metal scent.  God California, so full of wimps, at least west of the 5.  Everyone complaining about the heat.  It is only 85, there is a breeze coming up under the trees which happens when you live beside the…

Living in the Mystery: New Moon, Serendipity, and Timing

I wanted to write today about living in the mystery.  I thought after all the prescriptive here’s-a-translation-of-what-Mercury–could-mean, here’s-a-translation-of-what-Fire-could-mean, that reminding myself (and my readers!) the importance of simple living in the today might be right on time. So, with that in mind, turns out I also get to write today about how soul-work: living from…