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Updated: Jan 1
Remember
The way winter warns us about our demise.
The way we tantalize ourselves with a prize.
The moments of righteousness
Pass like the Summer.
All of the stories
All of the roses
All of the rain
All of the darkness and
All of the pain
Can be given back to Mother Earth again and
Again.
The winter winds that destroy
Will recede to the Spring
All of the wisdom
And all of the fiery.
The misunderstood
Call to duty.
The perceived intention
to force
the flow.
Was made up in stories from
so long ago.
We are all one.
We are the children of the forgotten Sun.
The reborn story that can set its own pace.
Slow it on down!
We are not here to race.
Remember, Remember that you are wise
Your overwhelmed body
And all that it defies.
The collective pressure can be left in peace.
Atlas held the world
So you can save your knees.
When we feel from the inside
And learn how to see.
When we pause for the body.
We remember to be.
We pause to feel compassion.
That can be so hard to find.
Conversations that heal.
The art that reveals
Our collective rise
to consciousness.
The untold story.
Of resilience
Of tenderness.
And the greatest
Of Glory
The smells that remind you of compassion and grace
The sounds that extract pain in every trace!
The embrace of another and the warmth of a hug
The purr of a happy cat
The mighty spider that forgot that it was a bug.
The grace that you give
Shape shifts us back
Releases the shackles
And puts us on track.
To the Bay, and your rivers and inland dark marshes
To the spiny red maples, and briar woods of the harshest,
Take all of our pain and all of our fear.
Give us the space to replace it with care.
Teach us to breathe again as we mourn!
Create new life so that we are reborn.
Like God, each of us is
The creator,
The destroyer and the
Sustainer.
Remember your body.
Remember your heart.
Remember the cold is
just doing its part.
Remember our Veterans and all that they gave for
Our Country.
Gratitude towards the four directions
The Land keepers’ unseen offerings of protection!
Notice that
The clear winter water
Tells a new story.
We were always free
And all we must do is be.
To allow.
To understand
The birth
And the life
And the death
And the birth.
May this winter break
Our hearts out of prison.
May the new love enrapture you!
Like a Nor’easter
To awaken each heart like
the deep greens of the Spring.
The pandemic of fear can be cured by
A smile
A hug
An unsuspecting nod.
The connection to others
The snorting pig-like laughs from good friends
The synchronized connection with
Every
Single
Being.
We are not separate.
We are not alone!
The lure of the external is a numbing Relief.
Temporary solace to lifetimes of Limiting beliefs.
That we never have to feel.
But
The pain holds the Truth
And the key.
In every dark path there’s
A light in a tree
The rue of the story!
You are Divine and you are The Light.
There is no longer a need to constantly fight.
The trickster-esque Osprey that named our beloved Bay,
Will return with new knowledge for us to proceed in a new way.
Originally published by Domesticated Primate and Anomaly Poetry in their Winter publication of Tidings 2023
Updated: Dec 12, 2023
Hope to see you online or in studio soon friends. Tomorrow is 12/12 - an auspicious day to start a new sadhana practice. Join me online for a 40 day meditation to remove blocks. So much clarity needed for us as we wrap up 2023 and ready ourselves to step into abundance for 2024. Click link below to join live each day or get a recording to do on your own time. Registration is only $11 for all 40 days, with the option to contribute more for our yoga scholarship fund. Sat Nam!
Updated: Dec 2, 2023
I have always been a person to pressure myself to the point of blockage when it comes to creating healthy habits. In the past, if I didn't do it perfectly, everyday, and as perfect as can be, well then, it wasn't worth doing. Never until the last few years did I take into consideration that some days have room for revision, and it is ok. Some days, our bodies need rest more than they need to follow a set of rules. We only need to accept our own personal effort. No one else needs to weigh in.
When I embarked on my Kundalini Teacher Training Journey (which incidentally never ends - there is always more to learn, but isn't that the truth in any healing or Spiritual Modality?), we were encouraged to develop a Sadhana and required to experience Aquarian Sadhana.
As Level 1 Kundalini Teachers, we were introduced to Aquarian Sadhana, which truly is a beautiful experience that can elevate you beyond imagination. Learn more here on this post from Snatam Kaur on her experience with AS.
I am an optimistic person, and even though I have spent my entire life running the clock, operating in the Clutch (for the baseball and softball players and fans out there, you know what I mean)
I am limited.
Time is limited.
My sadhana is what I have time for, and all I can say is when I make time for my own sadhana, my day is better.
Even though the pressure is on (or is it?) for the end of the year, the holidays, the crazy collective pressure we create for ourselves as a society in this Western World around December and the holidays. I encourage you to find your own practice that works for you. Do what you need to do to feel good. You are the most important person in your life. And if you are a person who gives and gives, why not give yourself the gift and grace that you give so freely to others?
Hoping to offer inspiration here or at least some perspective at the beginning of December with my Tik Tock video linked here
December is historically a difficult time in my life. This year is actually even harder than others for various reasons. I am grateful that I now have tools to help myself feel safe, grounded and at peace, when years before it was entirely a blinded run to the finish line using every ounce of energy to the point of an inevitable stomach bug, flu or angry temper tantrum due to the frustration of trying to keep up with my perceived idea of the masses and what they were doing.
Curious to know what your personal daily or periodic practice is? I will be sharing some of the practices that help me in the coming weeks. What works for you? What doesn't?
Sat Nam,
Rev. Julie Silvia (Devi Namdass)
Co-Founder The Current Healing Arts
yoga@thecurrentwithin.org