Practice Notes & Schedule // Week of 6.22.26
holding steady with the break and sway + new weekly offering in Altadena!
This week’s guiding I Ching reading served me an unchanging Hexagram 47, which represents (depending on the translation) Exhaustion, Oppression, Impasse, and feeling/being Trapped. It’s definitely a toss of the coins that makes you wince upon first glance — “Yikes, what am I in for?! On and on without end!?” But as always, there’s light in the dark: the judgment of this Hexagram asks one to reflect, acknowledge, and trust in inner strength as a tool to bend to circumstances without breaking. There will always be something to do, a wheel to spin — quite often the same spinning coming round and round again! The same meetings, the same conversations, the same problems, the same jokes, the same feelings. Living as a regular everyday person in the break and sway of the regular everyday routines means encountering obstacles beyond our immediate on-demand resources, arriving at unyielding impasses. Hexagram 47 reminds us that even in the depths of exhaustion, we are alive, present, and so, involved. While a situation may not respond to a single application of our limited force, with beating heart and turning breath, our constancy of simply being present over time, meeting the moment with the resources available, creates a yielding, a change, a turn in time. The river carves a path through the rocky earth, drop by drop coming together, slowly winding a path to the broad open sea.
This week’s practice:
new addition to the weekly rotation! Mondays 9:30am in Altadena!
Monday, 7pm, Candlelight Flow // Highland Park Yoga
Tuesday, 5:30pm, All Levels Yoga // Crescent Yoga ~ new time! ~
Wednesday, 8am, Yoga Level 2 // Highland Park Yoga
Wednesday, 5:30pm, Community Restorative // Zoom, freely offered
Friday, 9am, Meditation Meet-Up // reach out for details, freely offered
Friday, 6pm, Slow Flow & Breath // Highland Park Yoga
Saturday, 8am, All Levels Yoga // Highland Park Yoga
Monday, 9:30am, All Levels Yoga // Crescent Yoga ~ new to the weekly schedule! ~
Book Club convenes next on July 25th — we’ll be discussing a selection of essays from the Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, edited by Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O’Brien-Kop (link to download a PDF). Let me know if you’d like to join us!
Tuning in:
Practicing: Lots of restorative inversions, pratyahara (sense withdrawal), Aum chanting.
Reading: Still on Samantha Schwebling - now into her latest collection of stories: Good & Evil. “Welcome to the Club,” the very first story in the collection, resonated deeply along these Hexagram 47 feelings…
This week’s photo: The Rio Grande carving through northern New Mexico
Liberation for all beings!
Reach out to be my guest in-studio!
x Julia