It's not an obstacle, it's a portal! (Opening into the 'bruitful'.)

It's not an obstacle, it's a portal! (Opening into the 'bruitful'.)

“Life is brutal. But it's also beautiful. Bruitful, I call it. Life's brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly that they can't be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real.” —Glennon Doyle Melton

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Power Up with The Solstice Today and all Summer

Power Up with The Solstice Today and all Summer

Today, June 21, nature moves us through yet another one of her cycles! This day marks the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and is the one day of the year when there is more light than dark.

Historically, all around the globe, rituals have long been performed to honor the energy of the sun, its life giving force and gifts of beauty.

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Listening. Learning. Practicing. Opening.

Listening. Learning. Practicing. Opening.

As Sharon Salzberg teaches:

It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years—we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. —Sharon Salzberg

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The Best Way To Make Sure You're Not Socially Distancing From Yourself. Plus Free Online Practices, Mini-Retreat, & Teacher Training.

The Best Way To Make Sure You're Not Socially Distancing From Yourself.  Plus Free Online Practices, Mini-Retreat, & Teacher Training.

Meditation Teacher, Ethan Nichtern shared on Instagram, "Meditation is one of the best ways to make sure that you are not socially distancing from yourself."

He elaborated, "'social distancing' is a problematic term. We should be physically distancing very rigorously, but social distance might imply dissociation and disconnection, especially in regards to oneself. Keep your body away from others, but try to stay connected, especially to yourself."

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The Sweet Release: Meeting Our Tension

The Sweet Release: Meeting Our Tension

I have long used the practices of breath-based yoga practices, restorative yoga, conscious relaxation, and meditation to awareness of where and how I harbor tension, to befriend myself and my tension, and create conditions for my tension to soften and to feel more spacious and at ease.

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