"Think Like a Tree", by Karen Shragg
A few days ago a student sent me this poem, which is new to me. I will be using it as inspiration for next week's yoga group classes....
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min
Quote by Sharon Salzberg
I got the book "Real Change" some weeks ago, and today I decided to begin to read it. Opening it randomly in one page, I saw this, which...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
"Sorrow Is Not My Name", by Ross Gay
I have been attending pranayama & meditation sessions with Chase Bossart, who I highly admire, during all the length of the pandemic. One...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 8, 2021
- 1 min
Your Own Basic Goodness (quote), by Jack Kornfield
I often read a poem in class, and this week I want to read something related to a chant that we have been chanting. One of the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
"About Standing (in Kinship)", by Kimberly Blaeser
I hope you will enjoy reading this beautiful poem. It's the one I'll read the next couple weeks in my online yoga classes. About Standing...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
"Redbird Love", by Joy Harjo
Have you ever had a poetry godmother? My friend Toni Goodman is that person to me. Today is the first day I read this poem and love...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 14, 2021
- 1 min
"There Is Another View", by Jelaluddin Rumi
I have been listening to talks and meditations that Tara Brach is generously offering through her website, and loved the poem that she...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
"The Ponds", by Mary Oliver
I just watched a video with Tara Brach, a recommendation from my sister, which I loved. Tara Brach reads part of this poem, by Mary...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
"Aimless Love", by Billy Collins
Thanks to my dear friend Toni Goodman for sharing this poem with me. We are very close to Valentine's Day, and I feel pretty mixed about...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 11, 2021
- 1 min
A Haiku, by Monica Korde
My dear friend Monica Korde just won the second prize, out of 400 competitors and 1,000 haikus, in the Filoli Winter Haiku Competition...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
"Mornings at Blackwater", by Mary Oliver
My dear friend Toni shared this with her Poetry Circle, me included, and I'm planning to read it next week during my online yoga classes....
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susanalabordeblaj
- Dec 13, 2020
- 1 min
"Keep Walking", by Jalaluddin Rumi
I love to go back to the beautiful book "Mala of the Heart, 108 Sacred Poems". Here is one by Rumi. Keep walking, though there's no place...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 28, 2020
- 1 min
"In My Travels..." by Mirabai
During a mindful yoga practice, we may develop, overtime, an ability to perceive the subtle. Last week I read the poem "You and Art", by...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 28, 2020
- 1 min
A Poem by Morgan Harper Nichols
I received yesterday for my birthday a beautiful book of poems and prose by Morgan Harper Nichols, from a dear friend that I admire very...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 8, 2020
- 1 min
"I Voted", by Shannon Wills
A dear teacher shared this a few days ago on social media. Here it is: I voted today. I dropped my heart into the ballot box And cast my...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 8, 2020
- 1 min
"Piece Is Every Step", by Thich Nhat Hanh
Loved reading this yesterday: "Peace is every step The shining red sun in my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
"As I Walk With Beauty", Traditional Navajo
For this coming election day's class, I had a request from one of my students to say a poem about Peace and Beauty, here is something...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
"For The Interim Time", by John O'Donohue
Every Sunday I prepare an email where I share the poem that I will read the next week to my online groups in class. I had something...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
"Dear God...", by St. Francis of Assisi
Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
"How can this great love be inside me?", by Jelaluddin Rumi
Planning to explore what Love means, this week in class (and all my life), here are these words by Rumi: "I am so small I can barely be...
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