The last time I posted on my blog, was March 28, 2025.
Today is March 4, 2026…nearly one year.
I have an intention to begin again, and again, and again.
What else do we do, but keep breathing
and breathing and breathing each breath,
over and over and over again.
And so I begin….
Tuesday nights are restorative yoga for us.
It is a beautiful time to come inside
the building and our bodies,
and just notice
every place and particle within,
by slowing down, breathing and moving
into deep relaxation.
It is a time to stretch to that yin point of going beyond
in order to settle in
and nurture the body and the space within and around,
tending and in-tending,
this place of being human
as time to awaken.
Yang is the practice. Yin is the movement,
the true caring for the flow of life.
To become aware of our ability to respond
to our body and embodiment,
allows the awakened yin energy and
feminine coherence to unfold and flow
throughout the body,
throughout the world’s
rivers and oceans of life,
offering life places to flourish.
Thankfulness overflows,
within my heart, for this time,
with our teacher, who is caring and wise,
as she prepares and holds open a healing space,
for us to nurse our bodies,
to feed our souls,
and to embrace our existence with
loving kindness and true care.
The gratitude my heart feels,
knowing and experiencing
that others hold open this type of space
inside and outside,
as well, for each other,
offers quickened tenderness.
For what else could we possibly do,
but just sit with life, anywhere and everywhere,
and marvel in wonderment and devotion?
Knowing there are no lines, no this or that,
no you or me….only the presence of life
within everything.
When one opens or consciously holds open awareness
of life’s spaces and places,
it becomes clearly apparent that we share this space.
And what is this place, but life itself,
where we, too, are life itself.
So how in this beautiful
world do we ever imagine separateness, control or better-than qualities?
As we quietly walked home, under the stars, on a tree-lined,
brick, street-lit walk, one evening,
I spoke my intentions for that present moment:
May I let go of anything that keeps me separate.
May I continue to care and tend to life,
as the very existence we all are.
Simply and deeply.
In closing,
I created a new metta:
May I hold open space.
May I be kind and aware.
May I let go of that which keeps me separate.
May I radiate love and light in peace.
May you hold open space
May you be kind and aware.
May you let go of that which keeps you separate.
May you radiate love and light in peace.
May all of us in the whole world hold open space
May all of us in the whole world be kind and aware.
May all of us in the whole world let go of that which keeps us separate.
May all of us in the whole world radiate love and light in peace.
Words and photography by Jillian RoseMary LaBelle Sophie