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Dog days yoga?
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | August 30, 2010
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the dog days of summer have settled in with a big ole lazy heat wave. Who wants to move when the air is so heavy? Yoga class today? No, thanks, set me in front of my fan with an icy latte and a spicy novel. It’s good [...]
early spring meditation, birdsong
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | March 22, 2010
In Western New York, Spring, the mud-licked goddess of joy and rebirth, has floundered through the melting snows of March and found her way with the warmer, softer breezes, flowering snowdrops, and brilliant birdsong. Neighbors are sweeping off salt-littered stoops and chatting in the street. All agree: it’s been a long, tough winter. Mindfulness meditations [...]
A Living Mirror
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | February 21, 2010
Facing myself IS the HARDEST lesson. I REALLY REALLY don’t wanna go there. BUT it’s the only way to wake up. And we (you, me, etc etc) REALLY REALLY do wanna wake up, which leaves us no choice. WE gotta do it. We gotta go there ~ into that scary horrible ugly part of ourselves. [...]
Bhakti Yoga, Heart Opening to the Beloved
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | February 19, 2010
Death reminds me that there is really only one way to live. From the heart of love. Returned last night from burying Mom in North Carolina. A devoted Catholic, Priscilla Lasecki Kieber embodied the heart of bhakti yoga. Whether she was sitting on the beach, enjoying the beauty of the rolling oceanic waves, preparing cake [...]
Lovingkindness meditation
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | January 18, 2010
This is a GREAT time to practice METTA or Lovingkindness meditation. HAITI challenges us to step up to the compassion plate. Please try to offer some lovingkindness for not only the Haitians effected by the earthquake, but also for their families,the aid workers, and the governments involved that something may be done to ease the [...]
NAMASTE
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | January 15, 2010
In class recently, a new student asked me what “namaste” meant. I answered simply, “It means that the sacred in me honors the sacred in you.” I didn’t tell her that in Bengal, they usually say “namascara” as my meditation teacher did. He had lived and studied in Calcutta Bengal India, so naturally he insisted [...]
The Mother of All Intentions
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | January 8, 2010
During this season of intention-setting, it might be helpful to contemplate the mother-of-all-intentions: COMPASSION. And all compassion, from the grandest benevolent foundation to the tiniest gesture of human kindness, begins with oneself. During 2010, how can I treat myself with greater friendship, honor, and love? Can I develop kinder thoughts as well as healthier responses? [...]
Sutra 1.36, solace in my time of grief
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | December 6, 2009
Today Mom moved into an assisted living facility. For several reasons, she couldn’t manage to live on her own anymore. Watching the family locus reshuffle has been a sad event. Even though my brain knows it was necessary and inevitable, my heart grieves for what has past and will no longer be. I’ve been spending [...]
ripeness
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | October 22, 2009
What is it that I am waiting for? Why do I think I am not good enough or strong enough or smart enough or beautiful enough or kind enough? Why is the ripeness, the fullness of my existence so difficult to accept? Why do I think someone is more ~ or less ~ then my [...]
Happiness and Mind Training
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | October 15, 2009
For Sean P. O’Rourke (1985-2009) This has been a season of death. On Saturday, three young men died in a tragic car accident. One of them was the son of a long-time friend and writing group buddy, a member of the extended “Penelope Writers” family. Watching the faces of the O’Rourke family as they followed [...]
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