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In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case,
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.


When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.


We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

- Mark Strand



Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/

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The practice of Yoga helps us connect with the part of ourselves that is always virgin and untouched:
the place within us that can never be damaged.

While pain may be the catalyst that brings us to Yoga practice, it is joy that renews our commitment.

As our glimpses of calm and clarity become more frequent, and as our response to the challenges of life becomes more skillful, we wish to practice not simply to get ourselves out of a fix, but also to strengthen our connection with this base of contentment.

The joy that I refer to is not the climactic high we associate with excitement or stimulation, but a deep sense of awe and wonder that can suffuse the most ordinary things and the most ordinary moments.

- Donna Farhi, from Bringing Yoga to Life


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/

Image / Krisdog


What is the practice for?

In yoga, we do not have to become anyone we are not.

It’s just about recovering who you are, re-membering all that you really are.

It’s about clearing our awareness of detritus and conditioning, so that we’re more and more able to see things, ourselves, and others as they truly are.

What aids us in clearing our awareness over time?

Be friendly and deeply present. Allow life to bring you support and joy in the ways it does, and open yourself to these 🙏

Be compassionate when meeting suffering (in ourselves and others). When pain and hardship are present, offer kindness and empathy 🙏

Let beauty inspire. Look for the beauty in others, in the situations you observe, and in the world. Seek them out, notice them. Let these deeply inform your perception of humanity, this world, this life 🙏

When situations, or other people, are disturbing or behaving badly, observe these intently - remain fully present - but as if from a high vantage point, with space. Remain equanimous, that your steadiness may serve to bring forth a skillful response 🙏

Practice is a long term, steady, sequential process - we’re not expected to master these overnight. We can take these intentions into any area and every area of our lives, allowing each moment and every day to bring us plenty of opportunities to try and try again 🙏



Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/

Image / subbotina


"Biological networks are seldom quiet for long; usurpation and revolution come, creating and destroying.

Thoughts, textures, and rhythms die.

These are painful losses for those of us who love the melodies we were born into. In the unfamiliar,

jarring sound that emerges, we hear discord and, possibly, a segue to new harmonies."


- The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/

A key component of developing and strengthening our internal resilience is the quality of the relationships in our lives. In this fantastic interview, Shawn Achor shows us how to cultivate happiness and gratitude, how to select our "team" and empower them to support us in ways that really serve our well-being, and how to show up as a positive influence for the important others in our lives. I found this interview delightful, generous and deeply inspiring, and I hope you'll benefit from it, too.


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well
http://www.danawyss.com/