Category: Thoughtful Yoga

Considerations and ponderings while conducting your daily practice.

Sleep Like a Dolphin, Naturally

Anatara Buckley
Imagine waking up each morning with only a few things to be aware of… As a dolphin you are aware, through telepathic and feeling ‘sensors’, of the other members of your pod swimming around you. You are aware of the ‘plan’ for the pod that reveals itself as each moment presents itself. You are aware that when required, you will decide to rise to the surface of the water and take...

Communicating the Dolphin Way

Anatara Buckley
Talking about the Unseen What is it about the dolphins that we find so irresistible? They look so beautiful, they glide with such effortless grace, and they demonstrate their freedom simply by living wild in the sea. Dolphins live a life unencumbered by things or by written laws…the choices they make are based on that which is required by the moment. How they communicate the truth of the moment to one another is...

What the Dolphins Have Taught Me

Anatara Buckley
I have just returned from a glorious two-week initiation with pods of wild dolphins in the Pacific waters of Hawaii’s Big Island. The experience was an initiation into a world so divine that it defies many of the ‘laws’ and standards that we tend to accept as normal in our human world. Learning from the dolphins is not like going to class…it is instead an experience of total immersion in a...

Sharan Ro and the Era of “And”

Participating in Sharan Ro’s presentation, “New Era Living: The World of And” turned out to be a wonderful Wizard of Oz-like journey into a land where instead of either/or answers to life’s options and pathways, the answers can be, well, why not both? Why not choose this AND that too? Why not, indeed. Another breakthrough in those walls of limited thinking that hold in so many of our...

Watching Things Change

Anatara Buckley
The world as we know it is changing in so many ways… This flux is not new. The flow from one experience to another is part of the timelessness of our existence. That we have changing needs, changing habits and changes in friendship, career and location is all normal. And yet it feels as if there are bigger changes afoot all around us right now. When we feel a new and dynamic form...
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Comparatively Speaking

Everything about the giraffe’s body is built for one thing: reaching towering heights. As the world’s tallest land animal, they have an unrivaled reach. With legs that are taller than many humans — about 6 feet — to a neck that weighs over 600 pounds, the whole structure enables the giraffe to eat tasty treats unavailable to others constrained closer to earth. Yet you don’t see other animals lamenting the fact...
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Your Light Returns

Anatara Buckley
As far as the sun knows, it is now giving us, the inhabitants of the Northern hemisphere, a little more light every day. Every day will have a few more minutes of sunlight than the previous one. I wonder if we notice this. Do you notice this subtle change each day? Or do you realize at some point that the sun is setting later than it was a month earlier? Becoming aware of the...
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In Gratitube Act Five: Healin’ and Dealin’

Glenn Wollman
Two weeks passed before I felt comfortable leaving my sanctuary to venture into the real world. I plugged the supra-pubic catheter and carefully secured it in my fiancée-designed, custom-made, inside the waistband, semi-sterile (not even) samurai pouch. I presumed that no one in the restaurant could tell I was packin’ (a catheter, not a pistol/piss tool). Using my Diaper Dude super powers (Act Four), I began visualizing and imagining all of...

Dream Big

Inspiration struck at the grocery store. I was heading for the checkout counter when my eye was caught by a photo on a greeting card: a darling baby with her bright, sparkling eyes peeping over the top of a bucket, above the words, “Give us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.” I bought that cute card. Dreams are never meant to be toned down to...
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Farewell and Welcome Again

Christina Souza Ma
My dear, dear uncle has finally transitioned to his new journey. The last few months, we spent several hours a week together. Not the same as when he was staying in my home, but still it was wonderful to laugh together and — being Portuguese — eat together! (more…)
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