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A perfect moment

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Michaela

A PERFECT MOMENT
By Justme

Once upon a distant sharpened night
When the air was keen and an icy breeze held no fight
A transcendent moon throbbed it’s hazy gleam
As a murmuring trickle, foretold of a gentle hidden stream.

Daisies and dandelions, colours mute, held a colder earthly hug
As a silver glittering trail followed a steady, searching slug.
A hedgehog shuffled and crept slowly and diligently along
As all around the manmade pylons sang and hummed their electric song.

Silent wings threw cloudy flightless shapes
Time stood still for mountains, trees and lakes.
The heavens lights of flashing, silent stars, did hold.
As the Gods looked upon, the greatest story,
a perfect moment, has ever told.

∞

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Orpheus with his lute

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Michaela

“Orpheus with his lute” Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1952)

Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.

Everything that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die

(Poem by W. Shakespeare)

I may have to write a bit about my own oOo – odd obsession with Orpheus…

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Fat

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Michaela

And here is another interesting article about the truth of weight loss: Diet’s don’t work (long-term). What the article does not say is that it is not so so much what you eat, but what you think. It’s not the body that does not accept weight loss – it’s the mind. And there is one question each dieter should ask themselves – what are the benefits of me being “fat” ? Even though this sounds like a non-sensical question, the response may be surprising if taken into contemplation.

” Means of Life” is a series of articles about the relation between food, mind and soul.

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Yoga – at your own risk

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Michaela

There is an interesting article in today’s NYTimes about the often unwanted side effects of yoga – like trauma and injury. Apart from that, I have often encountered symptoms of energetic imbalances and fluctuation in people with a yoga routine. Physical and psychological symptoms manifest as consequence. Yoga is designed to strengthen the body to hold higher vibrations – to strengthen weaker parts of the body. And of course it can also be used therapeutically. But it is important that yoga teacher know what they are doing – and that the effects of yoga include a heightened awareness of the energy flow in the body with all it’s consequences.

Yoga is art and science – and it should be approached with respect. It has long been my conviction that yoga is much more than a tool to quiet mind and body. It is a tool to increase awareness, feel at home in the body and get the house in order. It is a powerful catalyst as much as an instrument to align body, mind and soul.