Tag: wellness
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Gravity: A Poem-Prompt
Below is the poem-prompt from yesterday. It now has a name 🙂 I wanted to share it again because I practiced with it after I posted, and I discovered some things. It was late in the day, and the earth and sky were moving from evening into night. As I was guiding myself, I noticed…
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An Little Introduction to Under the Magnolia Tree: 30 Poem-Prompts for Meditation & Writing
I spent a month sitting under my magnolia tree. Not a month straight. A month of mornings. And it changed the way I live. On the inside. Several years ago I completed a meditation teacher training that prepared me to teach meditation to young people in schools. It was another jump into one of the…
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Being at Home in Your Body, Laughing
One moment during a yoga workshop, my teacher said, “Buddha is laughing because there’s nowhere to go.” I don’t remember the context of this proclamation. Were we practicing asana? Was it a dharma talk? Was this in her answer to a student’s inquiry? I have no idea. But this quote is now handwritten, in cursive,…
Amy Secrist 