March 05, 2006
SEEING BEYOND THE SHAPE OF AN ASANA POSE...
Dear Teachers,
Thank you, so much for including me in Direct Lines. I was truly suprised,
genuinely touched and I thank you for acknowledging my humble practice. I
bow to you and Steve's practiced dharma "eye" - that ability to see beyond
the "shape" of asana practice and encourages the cultivation of an inner
strength and allows for the citizenship in both the inner and outer worlds.
I look forward to seeing you both on Wed. eve. I will bring the treats for
the kit-kats
and in closing a blessing for the elders in your front yard:
"Not yet having become a Buddha,
the ancient pine-tree
idly dreaming."
- Issa
Leslie, kai and yoda
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Photo #1: of HP Yoginis, Michelle (L), Kwan Yin (C...though MANY of you have already met Her at my LA Yoga Studio!), and Leslie. Taken by Joy "Ananda" Kilpatrick outside Two Tree Manner after Joy's Sunday morning, Female Strength & Hormonal Balancing Class.
Photo #2: an ancient cedar pine, idly dreaming perhaps, taking seemingly impossible root in arid, solid rock in Sedona. Trees grow their roots in Mother Earth. Humans grow our roots within our Attachments. What is the quality of YOUR soil? What Attachments nourish or degenerate YOUR roots? Photo and text by Coach Ilg.