"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
Mar 31, 20211 min read
"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, 20211 min read
"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 21, 20211 min read
"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, 20212 min read
"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, 20211 min read
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 17, 20211 min read
"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, 20201 min read
"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, 20201 min read
"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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
"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, 20201 min read
"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, 20201 min read
"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 4, 20202 min read
"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 20, 20201 min read
"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 20, 20201 min read
"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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susanalabordeblaj
Sep 13, 20201 min read
Ancient system to count breaths, by Susana Laborde-Blaj
Two ways to focus our attention, which the ancient yogis had been doing for many years, are the attention to breath, and purposeful...
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susanalabordeblaj
Sep 6, 20201 min read
"I am a fish, you are the moon", by Jalaluddin Rumi
Moments when I get caught in a disturbing thought, or emotion, I try (not always succeed, alas) to come back to Simplicity, to Nature, to...
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susanalabordeblaj
Aug 23, 20203 min read
Hope, by Susana Laborde-Blaj
There is a rock formation at the Bean Hollow Beach that has some holes where I can place my whole body in a fetal position. In Half Moon...
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susanalabordeblaj
Aug 9, 20201 min read
"Sweet Darkness", by David Whyte
Every week I choose a poem to read to my students, sometimes the poems seem to call my attention, like a magnet. I had planned to share...
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