Santa Asana: Yoga Gift Certificates for the Holidays

Consider giving a private yoga session as a gift this holiday season.
Gift Certificates are available for half price ($35 instead of $70) until January.  Please feel free to call/ email to further discuss details.

The goals of a private appointment can vary upon the individual. 

These could include:

- a new student wanting to have a more private experience before attending a general class

- the need for guidance in developing a personal home practice

- injuries and limitations which require extra attention and modifications from a teacher

- the need for customized guidance in stress-reducing techniques

A private appointment will include a fifteen minute interview/assessment to define your goals and then a one hour session of instruction.  A follow-up email will include a summation of what was covered during the appointment as well as a  list of exercises to continue on your own.

"Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life..."

Unending Love    -Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

A Soft Loss

Your hair stays pressed against your head as we lift you away from the pillows.
You are so pillowy.
You are so pilled. 
The doctors have peeled you away from me with every prescription.
Aging made lighter, these last few years made feathery.
I miss your crackling laughter, I miss your love stronger than steel.
In my sleep, as you sleep, it all seems real--
I feel it and I know it: 
I am losing you.
But this soft, easing away
is harder than I could have ever imagined.

Occupy Yoga: Social Action for the 100%

Photo Credit: Derek Beres

Occupy Yoga: Social Action for the 100%

Inspiration from this blog,"Change does begin within; cultivating calm, poise and compassion immediately resonates with others. Knowledge, action and sometimes occupation are integral components to making the world a better place for everyone. At certain times, this is done with an OM. At others, a vote."

Reflection of You

The thought of your death
returns me to infancy.
Suddenly I am crawling beneath the covers
sucking my thumb in the dark.

All the tears you once soothed away
now rise heavy.
Racked with sobs
that have been waiting, pushing up against
the smooth curtain you pulled across
my window into fear.

You created in me the belief
of a steadfast truth--
a constant love.

Because I never felt your love waver--
from that first moment
I fit in the palm of one hand, at 4lbs, 6 ounces.

By now I have felt many a love falter.
So it is a reflection of your love I look for
in those around me.
It is a reflection of your love
I aim to be for others.