Hello Yogis,
I want to thank each of you who came to the
Health & Wholeness Yoga Retreat and helped to make it such a lovely day! We are still working on editing the video taken during the morning session of
The Science of Hatha Yoga and
The Wisdom of Meditation. We'll have that video link ready for you soon.
In the meantime, I'm happy to share with you the Wisdom Quotes I used for our blissful
Yin Yoga for Wholeness practice - enjoy! Thank you so much.
Namaste,
Dominique
"The place where you are right now God circled on a map for you
wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move
Against the earth and the sky, the beloved has bowed there--
The beloved has bowed there knowing
You were coming…"
-- Hafiz
"Just sit there right now.
Don’t do a thing.
Just rest.
For your separation from God is the hardest work in this world.
Let me bring you trays of food
And something that you like to drink.
You can use my soft words as a cushion for your head. "
-- Hafiz
"The breath flows in and just before it turns to flow out,
there is a flash of pure joy -- life is renewed.
Awaken into that.
As the breath is released and flows out,
there is a pulse as it turns to flow in.
In that turn, you are empty.
Enter that emptiness as the source of all life."
-- The Radiance Sutras
"Having loved enough and lost enough,
I’m no longer searching just opening,
no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying to be
a soft and sturdy home in which real things can land.
These are the irritations that rub into a pearl.
So we can talk for a while but then we must listen,
the way rocks listen to the sea.
And we can churn at all that goes wrong
but then we must lay all distractions down
and water every living seed.
And yes, on nights like tonight I too feel alone.
But seldom do I face it squarely enough to see
that it’s a door into the endless breath that has no breather,
into the surf that human shells call God(dess)."
- Mark Nepo
"Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water,
are you coming to me,
water of a new life that I have never drunk?
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive here inside my heart.
And the golden bees were making white combs and
sweet honey from my old failures.
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a fiery sun was giving light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light and brought tears to my eyes.
Last night as I slept, I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that it was God I had here inside my heart."
--‐ Antonio Machado
"It happens all the time in heaven
And now it is beginning to happen again here on earth
When men and women who are lovers
And men who bring each other joy
And women who lead each other towards the light
Will often get down on their knees,
And with tears in their eyes
Will take each other by hand and say
My darling, How can I love you more dearly?
How can I be more kind?"
– Rumi
