Thank you Eight year old Marlie for presenting me with this yoga book you wrote and taught to classes in your school. I appreciate your interesting chapters~ Yoga that keeps me calm Yoga that keeps me Grounded Yoga with more than two people Yoga with two people Yoga that keeps me happy and your very helpful notes~ Remember you will not get it the first time Breathe slowly Remember to lean your beautifully detailed art~ and your permission to share your work on our blog~ I am grateful that you have been a grounded student for three years and you continue to serve your school with yoga. With love, Cheryl Crawford
Often people tend to pull us into their drama. Our awareness can get overwhelmed. What if we allow them time for self-correction? What if we don’t always comment about what we are critical of? What if we focus in a positive way and offer love with enthusiasm?
I invite you to practice the zip mantra (influenced by the brilliant Paul Muller-Ortega ) on your mat space as well as in your life space. Do tell us how it goes!
inspired by Dr. Seuss’s Sutra: the Zax and Patanjali’s Sutra: yatha abhimata dhyanadva (Chapter 1, v. 39)
One day, making Okeys In the mountain of Dokey, Posed a West-Going Yogi And an East-Going Yogi.
{See, an Okey is approval, An endorsement as such. Each yogi seeked okeys So very much.}
And it happened that both of them posed in a place Where they bumped. There they stood. Foot to foot. Face to face.
“Look here, now!” the West-Going Yogi said. “I say! You are blocking my mind. You are right in my way. I’m a West-Going Yogi and I always think west. Get out of my way, now, and let me do best!”
“Who’s in whose way?” snapped the East-Going Yogi. “I always think east, making east-going okeys. So you’re in MY way! And I ask you to move. And let me go east in my east-going groove.
Then the West-Going Yogi puffed his chest up with pride. “I never,” he said, “take a step to one side, And I’ll prove to you that I won’t change my ways If I have to keep posing here thirty-nine days!”
“And I’ll prove to YOU,” yelled the West-Going Yogi, “That I can pose here in the mountain of Dokey for thirty-nine years! For I live by a mantra that I learned way back in West-Going Tantra. “Still the mind! That’s my mantra. Still the mind is the best! I’ll pose here, quite still! I can and I will If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still.
Hey… said East-Going Yogi I learned that as well. Let’s check yoga sutras Won’t that be swell?
Chapter1, verse 39 to be quite exact. Focus on things that you won’t find distract.
There are numbers of ways For the mind to become still. Focus on what you please To Fulfill!
It is the process of focus Which makes us a yogi Not the specific practice You see, Okey-Dokey?
Patanjali says to practice Right from the heart Allow this to deepen, For that is the art.
Fix the mind! Any object you choose, As a focusing prop to Fully fix and bemuse.
Get absorbed in your focus, Without distraction. You can attain stillness And sweet satisfaction.
Gratefully, I wake up every morning, breathing, heart beating and mind wide open. As I breathe into my heart I pray, “God, thank you for this day, thank you for this breath and thank you for this life.” I am passionate about living life through peace and love rather than through fear and hate. My…
Yoga has become a great way for children of ALL abilities to become aware of their body, in line with their breath, and connected to the beautiful truth and peace within them. As an occupational therapist and devoted yogi, Allison Morgan of Zensational Kids (see www.zensationalkids.com) offers up a joyful and mindful way to facilatate learning yoga with pose chips.
Have you ever felt not worthy? Maybe you lacked Self-love or maybe you didn’t surround yourself with goodness at the time. Who we surround ourselves with is who we become. If we surround ourselves with downers we begin to feel down. If we surround ourselves with happy, joyous, and delightful people we become more happy and joyful. If we were to eat junk food every single day we would begin to feel down and ucky. When we eat healthier we experience delight and Self-love. Honor Your Self! Surround yourself with goodness. “The first step toward awareness is being willing to look at yourself and your life without judgment or self-criticism.” (Iyanla Vanzant) Awareness opens the heart to new possibilities.
I think it is safe to say that no one likes whining, but despite that fact, regardless of age we all find ourselves doing it. It creeps up on you suddenly, born out of a desire for something you don’t have, or to leave a place where you don’t want to be, or perhaps to…
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Thank you Eight year old Marlie for presenting me with this yoga book you wrote and taught to classes in your school. I appreciate your interesting chapters~ Yoga that keeps me calm Yoga that keeps me Grounded Yoga with more than two people Yoga with two people Yoga that keeps me happy and your very helpful notes~ Remember you will not get it the first time Breathe slowly Remember to lean your beautifully detailed art~ and your permission to share your work on our blog~ I am grateful that you have been a grounded student for three years and you continue to serve your school with yoga. With love, Cheryl Crawford
Yoga has become a great way for children of ALL abilities to become aware of their body, in line with their breath, and connected to the beautiful truth and peace within them. As an occupational therapist and devoted yogi, Allison Morgan of Zensational Kids (see 
Have you ever felt not worthy? Maybe you lacked Self-love or maybe you didn’t surround yourself with goodness at the time. Who we surround ourselves with is who we become. If we surround ourselves with downers we begin to feel down. If we surround ourselves with happy, joyous, and delightful people we become more happy and joyful. If we were to eat junk food every single day we would begin to feel down and ucky. When we eat healthier we experience delight and Self-love. Honor Your Self! Surround yourself with goodness. “The first step toward awareness is being willing to look at yourself and your life without judgment or self-criticism.” (Iyanla Vanzant) Awareness opens the heart to new possibilities.