Diane Haynes Yoga

If yoga means union, if we as practitioners aspire to see the interconnectedness of all, then HOW COULD YOGA NOT BE A POLITICAL PRACTICE? Dr. Chelsea Jackson Smith’s most recent research explores the lived experiences of Black teen yoga practitioners and their use of yoga and storytelling for critical identity development. Today’s conversation doesn’t shy away from suffering, liberation, power, and privilege and a call for a new cabinet-level position.

What is the new world story that will spin out of our situation? MEDITATION doesn’t necessarily lead to a passive life it can also encourage an active one. Today, author and recording artist Justin Michael Williams talks about how meditation helps us quiet the mind and rest in gratitude while becoming engaged members in our community. Together, we can be part of the solution.

One thing that has always stayed the same with yoga is change. <3

Now is the time to begin to understand that whatever fears you may be feeling of scarcity, of illness, of injustice, of suffering, of loss, of death, of the inability to protect or save someone you love have been there all along. Could you begin to investigate that? Could you experiment with curiosity about that? What if these fears have arisen to the surface to be attended to, like frightened children... to be seen and heard, to be accepted, to be allowed to be present..., even welcomed, to be loved? Could there be time, now, for that?

How are you faring with the part of your mind that is usually preoccupied with planning for the future? How are you faring with the part of your mind that is usually preoccupied with planning for the future?

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I've seen a few posts over the past few days asking why the world hasn't mobilized in response to the climate crisis the way it is responding to this virus. This IS the world responding to the climate crisis. It has finally shown itself in a way the majority of human animals on the planet can see and feel and understand. This is a virus that replicates itself in the tissues of the lungs. It is not a coincidence that atmospheric CO2 hit a record high of 416 ppm on February 10 ...Continue reading

Can you imagine a creature so vulnerable that the greater part of its breathing apparatus exists outside its body? And not only outside its body but in a separate creature? Can you imagine being that dependent on another creature? Now, imagine you are that dependent and yet do not know how to talk to, let alone listen to, that creature. Don't know how to relate to her as anything other than a 'resource?' This is what it is to be human right now. Trees are not a 'resource' to ...be made into Presto Logs and paper towels and plywood and toilet tissue at our command. Trees are a part of the web of which we are a part. They breathe in what we breathe out, and they breathe out what we breathe in. We cannot survive three minutes without them. Do you understand?

Endangered species list: mountain gorilla pacific salmon jaguar... Polar bear Vaquita African elephant human blue whale chimpanzee Monarch butterfly Do you understand?

There is no such thing as China, no such thing as Italy, Spain, the US, a border. There is only the world. Only Life. Do you understand?

Earthbound BY MADISYN TAYLOR Our bodies are living, breathing expressions of our consciousness and should be treated as such.... <>

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