Today we had the final Saturday meeting of the 9 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on cultivating deep appreciation and loving kindness toward ourselves and to the many others who have supported us on our journey.

Together we created our own light in the rainy dark and began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

. . . Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives.  Let us find the courage & help one another enter the mystery!  Let us find the courage and help one another live awakened lives.  Let us find the courage and help one another to really see ourselves clearly.  Let us find the courage & help one another to honor our wisdom.  Let us find the courage and help one another to value and share our gifts. Let us find the courage and help one another practice patience, loving kindness and compassion. . . .

Let us give thanks!

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“Let the things that enter into your life wake you up!”  Pema Chodron

Today we had the eighth Saturday meeting of the 9 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on what we want to cultivate in our living gardens this year.  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives. Let us find the courage & help one another enter the silence! Let us find the courage & help one another dare to do new things.  Let us find the courage & help one another to challenge what is false. Let us find the courage and help one another to speak our truth.  Let us find the courage & help one another to live our wiser selves.  Let us find the courage & help one another to revel in joy. Let us find the courage & help one another to enliven & express our Spirits . . . Let us give thanks!

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Living is changing:  the veils of transition are thinning.  Yesterday we had the seventh Saturday meeting of the 9 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on “embracing and being change.”  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

. . . Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives.  Let us find the courage & help one another recognize the winds of change blowing through!  Let us find the courage & help one another let go of what no longer serves. Let us find the courage & help one another to challenge what is false.  Let us find the courage & help one another to honor nature’s seasons of life & change within us.  Let us find the courage & help one another to become gifts to our people . . . Let us give thanks!

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It’s Soulstice!!!!!!!  We’re lightening up and emerging from the fertile darkness.  Today we had the sixth Saturday meeting of the12 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on “the power of ceremony”:  creating balance and celebration  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

. . . Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives. Let us hold space for one another in ceremony & celebration! Let us find the courage & help one another step into the sacred space with our life questions. Let us find the courage to live as earthlings in honor of nature’s seasons of life & change. Let us find the courage & help one another to enter the mysteries: our dreams & dark places. Let us find the courage & help one another to use what we have harvested with wisdom & to plant seeds of well being, love & gratitude . . . Let us give thanks!

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Today we had the fifth Saturday meeting of the12 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on “turning shit into fertilizer”:  turning over life’s challenges and disappointments into the soil that will nurture new growth.  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

 Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives.  Let us find the courage & help one another to hold on to what’s precious no matter what.   Let us find the courage & help one another disobey the direction of poisonous conditioning.  Let us find the courage to use our healing breath to find humor and beauty in despair.   Let us find the courage & help one another to stop; breathe; wait; look and see. Let us find the courage & help one another to take a stance, do our Power Dance & sing our Song . . .  Let us give thanks!

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Today we had the fourth Saturday meeting of the12 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on embodying our spirit and romancing our souls!  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives.  Let us find the courage & help one another to truly connect with our Spirit.  Let us find the courage & help one another to go through our fears. Let us find the courage to use our healing breath to call out to Spirit.  Let us find the courage & help one another to ask for what we want.  Let us find the courage & help one another to walk in Beauty, accepting the wholeness of our being . . . Let us give thanks!

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Today we had the third Saturday meeting of the12 week meditation series in the Daring Greatly: 60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga. This week we focus on learning to Walk the Good Road and becoming healers.  We began with a prayer inspired by Ana Forrest’s teaching:

Let us dance with what is immovable in our lives.  Let us find the courage and help one another to travel the Good Road.   Let us find the courage and help one another to find the prayers that are true for us.    Let us find the courage to use our healing breath to see and feel the energy inside ourselves & others.   Let us find the courage and help one another to honor the laws of medicine and nature. Let us find the courage and help one another to trust ourselves to try, to accept ourselves when we fail & to try again.  Let us give thanks!

Prayer has always been a bit challenging for me.  Reading Ana’s personal experience of it has sparked something inside – I feel a shift happening.  Right now just letting the discovery be.

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Giving thanks, thanks, thanks for this cool clear, bright sky – it’s helping me listen up & wake up!   Yesterday was the second Saturday meeting of the12 week meditation series of the Daring Greatly:  60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga.  This week is about listening in.  Now if you read down to the second to the last paragraph you’ll find a treat for your ears!

Okay:

 

Right now:   begin to breathe . . . really breathe & feel your breath bringing new life to every cell of your being . . .
Right now:   begin to breathe into the dream of your life . . . see it, sense it, enliven it with your breath!
Right now:  begin to breathe into your feet, into your hands, into your heart so they can be flexible & quick ever ready to respond to change!                                                               Right now:  Give Thanks!

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Go Saturday!  We had our first meeting of the our 12 week meditation series to kick off the Daring Greatly:  60 Day Gratitude Challenge at Two Rivers Yoga.  Together we take up the challenge of personal transformation and to live in gratitude.   Today we began in stillness to explore our heart’s connection to the commitment we are making.

We are taking an amazing journey in which we can learn about ourselves, each other and our world. Stillness offers a wonder opportunity to really know the place from which we begin – in this case – to know ourselves well enough to seek what is most healing and empowering and what will enable us to live with thanks.

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