Practice Notes & Schedule // Week of 5.25.26
nourishment
Through practice we cultivate discernment and awareness, using the myriad experiments and reference points of shapes, systems, techniques and modalities to get ourselves around ourselves. Finding perspective within our chosen boundaries, we move from feeling isolated, tethered, scattered, fixated, wired, tired — just generally a bit existentially disoriented, really — toward presence, easy and stable in the space of an hour, half an hour, even just a handful of breaths. Circumstance may shift the shape practice takes, but each moment within this container we devote ourselves to contributes to the realization of our wholeness.
Dood and water nourish our bodies. Love and tenderness nourish our spirits. Practice nourishes our being.
“Farmers guide the water; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters carve the wood; good people fashion themselves.” — Dhammapada, Sutta 145.
This week’s practice:
Monday, 7pm, Candlelight Flow // Highland Park Yoga
Tuesday, 9:30am, All Levels Yoga // Crescent Yoga *$20 walk-in community rate!
Wednesday, 8am, Yoga Level 2 // Highland Park Yoga
Wednesday, 5:30pm, Community Practice // 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
Sunday, 10am, Yoga Flow Level 2 // Highland Park Yoga
Tuning in:
Practicing: Trataka meditation, a technique to purify the vision, still the mind, and come into the present moment’s luminosity. Light a candle and watch the flame, 10-20min/day.
Listening: Jeff Parker & the ETA IVtet’s new album Happy Today. And SUSS’s latest, Counting Sunsets.
Reading: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai by Shunryu Suzuki.
This week’s photo: Self-seeding tangle, Marshfield, MA
Liberation for all beings!
Reach out to be my guest in-studio!
x Julia