Amy Secrist

Tag: poetry

  • Aliveness Bursts from the Courageous Heart and You Are Home

    Aliveness Bursts from the Courageous Heart and You Are Home

    Courage is meeting ‘the heart’ – where ‘the heart’ is the pulsating vitality of things, of ecological things, that bends you into new shapes. One does not “have” courage; one is summoned by it. Anointed by it. Touched by it.   Bayo Akomolafe What is aliveness?Is there meaning here in this word for you? Does…

  • Yoga Comes to You

    Yoga Comes to You

    Yoga comes to you when you need it. It’s like a fine fuel, my teacher said; it can last for months, getting you through the hardest moments. The Yoga exists in service to you, my next next teacher said;We do not live in service to yoga, configuring ourselves into shapes. No, the shapes come to…

  • Poems & Ashes

    It’s so cold today that we gather inside, light her candle, and read Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching A Cloud Never Dies.  I can’t read my poem out loud, so each person reads it on their own.  Then we all go out in the yard and take turns spreading our dog’s ashes together, wherever we feel called.…