Friday, January 4, 2013

New Year's Blessings

Happy New Year!

May this year be rich with opportunities to explore deeply, to play freely and love whole heartedly.

Here's something beautiful  that I hope inspires and ignites you. A quote and hope for you from this short Tedtalk: "I wish that you will open your heart to all these blessings and let them flow through you and that everyone you meet on this day will be blessed by you. Just by your eyes, by your smile, by your touch. Just by your presence. Let the gratefulness overflow to blessing all around you." -Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, narrator of Louie Schwartzberg's film.


You'll find an attached Integration Meditation to support you in bringing in the lush mystery of the new year with your insights from 2012. If you've done any Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy with me you'll recognize it as the meditation we do at the end of the session or workshop. See what it's like to use it to reflect on your year, what wisdom you can draw from it, and how you can set that into motion in a real way.


This year has been, well, a lot of things. There's been calm, and there has been chaos... And through the whole spectrum of it there's been community. I've been so blessed by the loving, generous support from all the lovelies that make it what it is. The healing, inspiration and abunDance flowing through it has helped me to be so much more whole than I could be on my own. The caring presence of people around has made me feel so rich, even while experiencing loss. Thank you. Simply for being present. It is my hopes that by practicing Yoga in all the ways that we do we continue to cultivate that caring, compassionate, loving presence in an empowering way that benefits all beings.


May all beings be peaceful and free
May we be fearless and play ^.^
In Metta


Namaste