Practice Notes & Schedule // Week of 3.23.26
trickling streams running towards each other
The creation of linear thoughtlines worthy of scrawling down here to send out to you all is eluding me even more than usual. I’ve been in the garden following the cat around, weeding, sitting in the sun, thinking, noticing, and noting — my typical pre-writing routine — but instead of revealing some winning notion to spend a few paragraphs circling all I’ve got are some strange little streams:
In early spring, clearing the acequias. The importance of preparing the stream for easy flowing. Finding a similar effluvience in being uses the same skills: strength, attention, intuition, duration, collaboration, patience, prayer.
Are your internal rivers’ obstructions naturally deposited debris, earthly earthy wear and tear? Or are they the result of active agents, busy beavers of the spiritual realm? One type is not necessarily easier or quicker to break up than the other, but the root informs the approach.
Where do you come into your internal landscape? The lake of the belly*, root of the foot, cave of the heart, mountain peak of the crown? How does the microcosm within reflect or diverge from the macrocosm without?
Streams of communication. So much of what is said just bubbles by: small talk, pet phrases, all those almost scripted exchanges, the little hymns to the everyday. How strong is the current beyond that? Where does it pull - Work, family, dreams, art, ideas, ideals, what the f*** is going on in the world and what do we do about it? What do we really talk about and who do we really talk to? How do the streams feed into each other? Where does the flow go?
“The waters on the surface of the earth flow together wherever they can.” - Hexagram 8, Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching. This hexagram deals with the connections of relationship, specifically a kind of neighborly friendship.
*Always with water for me! Cancer sun/Pisces moon/Scorpio rising, reporting for duty. Easy to tap into lakes, rivers, oceans, streams, clouds, and puddles.
Tuning in:
Reading: The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant. A very liquid non-fiction narrative winding its way through the history and terrain of Haida Gwaii and its intersection with colonialism and industrialism towards a mystery centered around an ecological activist and one remarkable tree.
Reading: Next Book Club Meeting will be to discuss Yoga Body by Mark Singleton. If you’ve ever been curious about the history of postural yoga practice and/or skeptical of claims that these postures have trickled down to us over the millennia, this one’s for you! Send me a message if you’d like to join us - we meet in LA, but like to collect fellow travelers from all parts.
This week’s video: Rio Grande, Taos, NM, April 2025
This week’s practice:
Monday, 7pm, Candlelight Flow // Highland Park Yoga
Tuesday, 9:30am, All Levels Yoga // Crescent Yoga *new time!
Wednesday, 8am, Yoga Level 2 // Highland Park Yoga
Wednesday, 5:30pm, Community Practice // Zoom (I Ching moves us: Hexagram 29: Double Pitfall moving to Hexagram 8: Coming Together )
Friday, 9am, Meditation Meet-Up 🌸 (reach out for details)
Saturday, 8am, All Levels Yoga // Highland Park Yoga
Liberation for all beings!
Reach out to be my guest in-studio!
x Julia