"Yoga means "to yoke." You can think of yoking as a way of consciously directing two seemingly disparate parts of yourself. Just as two yoked oxen must be encouraged to work together in a way that will move them forward without hurting each other, your body and your mind must join together-instead of opposing one another-to consciously affect ( Read more... )

i really love and miss the West Coast!

 One:  Help! How do I make sustainability a performing art? I might be designing my own class in sustainability (continuity between past-present-future) as an elective next year, but I have to turn it into a performing arts-like class. I was thinking like... how art can be an agent for social change/commentary... but that's a tricky  line since ( Read more... )

So, we mustn't forget any of this... We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old... And tell ourselves that it's now that matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength. Always remember that there's a retirement home waiting somewhere and so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our ( Read more... )

leave all your love and your longing behind
you can't take it with you if you want to survive

the dog days are over

it's such a joyful thing, life!!! WE ARE IN COMMUNION WITH SO MUCH. everything that exists, in fact ( Read more... )

life is so beautiful.

i choose to follow the sun,
an elusive thing leaving little droplets of beauty to the fools,
but to an open heart a path of everlasting righteousness.
and upon reaching the end of the earth
i shall dangle my toes from the edge,
throw back my arms
and naturally give my self fully to the one that chooses me;
to brown my skin
to feather my soul and with ( Read more... )

paint. run. eat greens. do yoga. be. BREATHE. bike. hike.

i think that obsessive internet checking is a symptom of wishing to be elsewhere. i wish to be in the now. i am in the now.