Reflections for your journey

Music to sooth and inspire the soul. Wisdom to strengthen us and light our paths.

Wild Horses

It’s About Now

Are we living our own personal dharma or do our lives simply reflect conformity to external expectations and societal or religious norms?

Persist

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” –  Jacob A. Riis

Reside in your true nature

“Understanding without practice is better than practice without understanding. Understanding with practice is better than understanding without practice. Residing in your true nature is better than understanding or practice.” —  Upanishads

Fully Embodied

“We are not human beings seeking a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings seeking a human experience.” – Tielhard de Chardin

Being in the Body

Hatha—yoga situates you in the present moment, in the now, for the simple reason that it locates you in the body… and the body moves in the present, to be in the body is to be in the now… You cannot move a leg tomorrow or raise an arm yesterday… To go into and out of every posture with tremendous observation invites you to be here and in the now… To be conscious of this eternal union and harmony with the reality… because in going after the body you will touch the soul…

By Swami Ramakrishnananda

New Beginnings

I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher training certification last week. This doesn’t make me a yoga teacher — only years of personal practice, dedication, and experience will do that — but it does represent my intention, my desire, and my commitment to the yogic path. I’m learning to celebrate the small things in life … Read more