Today in my yoga class,
I had a growing awareness of the breath
breath as life
breathing as living
breath as guiding and embodying.
Without breath, there is no life
The breath of life
The last breath.
Within the structure of me
there are places and spaces
corridors and hidden spots
awaiting the light of breathing
to embody the space
to release the darkness
to fill and embellish the open places
with the swiftness and presence of the breath.
And in the ending moments of shavasana,
my tear ducts overflowed quietly
with a fountain of tears
and a cry to my breath
to guide me, to help me, find my way,
inside my embodied life,
recognizing that I stand on a new threshold
as newly emerging from the aftermath
of moving through the speed of light
transporting me to a new place of existence
asking for me to find my way
by finding myself anew
in the aftermath of change.
And in those tears and place of timelessness and time,
the realization poured forth revealing
the sense of true unknowing
of how to live my life,
my new life
not lost
nor forgotten
but wandering in that way that begs for consciousness
to re-live, re-grow, re-build
a life from the inside out
from the ground up
from all the pieces
coming together not as I was but
as I am now–
a newly formed seed of life itself
filled with the breath and willingness
to learn to grow anew, grow again
in an entirely new way.
Free
My heart broke into a thousand pieces
and I’ve tried to put it all back together
yet there is no back
or together
only a new heart emerging,
under a thousand sparkling stars
with a new breath of life moving through me,
a new dawn arising within me
that beckons me
to be present, be conscious, be discerning,
be loving, be here now to unfold and open
this new living seed
in the harvesting of maturity and experience
through a pressurized alchemy and trauma within the birth canal
pushing me so tightly
my breath went away
only to return like a baby’s cry
into this newly felt environment of a place called Earth.
My mother my self’s soul
My father my self’s body
My self within my breath,
my presence in the consciousness of light,
my love as a radiating essence.
And that which I’ve come to bring, that I’ve striven to know
emerges through a sea shell,
as a pearl and a new seed of life
filled with illuminating breath
enlivening and grounding the body
filling the mind with light
watering the emergence
with the tender breezes of change
to feel deep down within myself
the presence of an incredible living wisdom
so beautiful, I used to say it takes my breath away….
and indeed it did, but now
it gives me breath
and, indeed, life itself….
My venus sophia, my bella sophia….
the beauty and the breath of life,
of living wisdom
Emerging deep within my soul
I welcome you.
The first time life is given freely to all of us.
The second time it asks of you to freely create it yourself….
out of your whole self
with gifts freely given in grace
and love surrounding and swirling always.
In that tenderness and grace,
I stand humbly breathing
that beautiful, and wise breath of life.
