BarefootAndUpsideDown

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Standing Pose Workshop for teachers

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | May 20, 2009

Saturday, May 14, blossomed cloudy and rainy – a fabulous day to drive through the vineyards into Westfield NY’s brilliant yoga studio PANTERRA for an afternoon exploring standing poses with teacher, Dariel Woltz. If you missed the poem I posted regarding my classes at Panterra, you may wish to read “body heart and soul” first.

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body heart and soul poem

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | October 2, 2008

body heart and soul

 
I could not hope
to touch the sky
with my two arms
(Sappho # 129)
 
 
I descend
the slippery drive
into Panterra—
a green cleft in
earth’s crust—
smitten with the song
of om,
driven by a guttural thirst
to expand,
condense,
invert my vision.

she waves me in
to truth,

I rise from the illusion
of the rickety ride here,
into
the company [...]

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OpenSky Yoga Teacher Training

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | August 23, 2008

Since I am on a roll, thinking about my teachers, and because some of you have asked me about teacher training, I thought it would helpful to post a poem I wrote for Francois at the completion of the Essential Teacher Training of Open Sky Yoga in Rochester NY. A link to his monthly newsletter [...]

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