Inspirations: Polarities

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing.  Love tells me I am everything.  Between the two my life flows.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The constant swing from human to divine is the ebb and flow of ocean tides washing flotsam and jetsam.  Only essential Self remains when we have been pushed and pulled back and forth between endless demands of relationship polarities. Learning to respond rather than react to polar swings hones edges, awakens sensitivities, and grinds grain from the chaff.  In the dark of a New Moon birth, we prepare for Full Moon revelation. In summer’s richness waits winter’s barren bones. In the storm’s center, lies its stillness.  As we dance between contrasts, growing consciousness from un-consciousness, we deepen the response between fate and free-will. This emerging free-will creates new mind/body/spirit pathways.  It is a magical endeavor where we are able to heal psychic splits and divided selves. In the willingness to struggle with and against polarities, to risk wild swings, and manipulate multiple relationships lies the opportunity to enter new realities.  This can be a space where what was invisible- becomes visible, and what was previously impossible – manifests. It doesn’t always work that wonderfully, but at bare-bones bottom, that flotsam-jetsam bald and bold place, we might become the best and brightest of who we are.  Having swung back and forth not only between wisdom and love, but more likely, fear and anger, selfishness and generosity, even Revelation and Armageddon long enough, wisdom teams with love to open the listening heart. Ain’t nothing better than that, eh? POSE WITH SEASONAL ENERGIES Asana: Eka Pada Galavasana-Crossbow Balance: A great pose of strong polarity where we are tethered to earth, yet lift off and ‘fly high’ through the power of holding the center. You can come at this from Utkatasana, (or tripod… Read more »

Straddling is not easy. When we are of two minds it’s difficult to make clear decisions.  Emotionally, when we are un-committed, neither fish nor fowl, we stew. Straddling is more difficult with big changes such as divorce, losing a job, a child arriving, or a parent dying. This requires we figure out new energetic pathways while sustaining the known, that we learn to straddle an old life with a new.  It can be exciting.  It can also be tough.  When we don’t know the territory, straddling, despite the wide stance, feels tippy and risky. Shifting into a new year asks we make an upgrade in consciousness, that we re-boot hard drives. These past months, the world has struggled and straddled many difficult, and extraordinary issues, and because we are interconnected through an energetic grid, we influence one another all the time.  My transformation, or lack of, accelerates your cellular structure. Your triumphs and failures influence mine.  Planetary waves of distress from major disasters, affecting large numbers of people, profoundly affect the planet, plant, and animal kingdoms. We have straddled giant leaps of faith, we have tried to keep the faith, but have we taken time to heal the wounds holding us back, and/or the horribly wounded? Sadly, there has been little to no straddling from those running the world.  We have failed miserably to come together despite random act of conciliation and kindness.  What can I do?  If my action influences yours, and together we are a more formidable resonance, rather than curse the dark, let’s stand in the night to sing the Beatles, “Come Together.” We move into 2012 at the speed of light.  But before we blast off, we are straddling this worn out year, struggling with what was lost, and those forsaken. We look to the future… Read more »

William Blake said in “Eternity.” “He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy: But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.” As spring’s haunting hour of splendor turns toward summer, ‘kissing the joy as it flies’ is a full time job. The only dance left is to hold on while letting go,  The difficulty is not simply offering sweet kisses in honor of the season’s bloom, but the speed required to blow those kisses.  How to pucker up and savor while breaking the sound barrier… This is our un-holy alliance.  It is easier to not bind, or cling to splendid moments when we are savvy enough to be present. Or is it? As we grow awareness of the grains of numinous sand running through the hourglass, do we respect and treasure each grain? Do we then create a life that is entirely vivid, more potent? Do we not want to hang on, knowing what we now know, aware of each fleeting gift?  Or is it possible to free-fall, skydiving high cliffs, un-tethered to any yearning?  Rumi wrote:  “The soul’s extravagance is endless.  Spring after spring after spring…We are your gardens dying, blossoming.”  When we remember that in this lavish sea of perfection, and longing, bliss and death, redemption and horror, we then honor our wings and our kisses, our sunrise and sunset. Pose with Seasonal Energies Asana: Dwi Pada Viparita Dandasana.  This looks like a graceful bridge or arc, as though the feet lowered out and away to the floor from Salamba Sirsasana/headstand.  Begin flat on back, placing palms under shoulders, fingers pointing to feet. Bring feet near hips, knees parallel.  Exhale, straighten legs, and bear weight on the hands, neck and head.  Place L hand behind head, forearms on… Read more »