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"The News", by Emilie Lygren
Looking for a poem for next week's online yoga classes, I stop in my tracks reading this one, finding myself deeply moved. I take "an...

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Sep 5, 20211 min read


"Field Guide", by Tony Hoagland
Thank you very much Toni Goodman for sharing this poem with us. I couldn't find a photo to post with it, and then I remembered the lovely...

susanalabordeblaj
Sep 5, 20211 min read


"The Risk To Bloom", by Anaïs Nin
Every Sunday I send an email to the groups that take my online yoga classes on what I call "My Personal Zoom", and I usually add a poem...

susanalabordeblaj
Aug 29, 20211 min read


"A Random Conversation", by Susana Laborde-Blaj
I never thought I would get to have a glimpse into a person’s soul when I entered Costco. I have been resisting going there, since I...

susanalabordeblaj
Aug 1, 20212 min read


"Burnt Kabob", by Jelaluddin Rumi
I'm very happy that without planning it, I have created with my blog a library of poems that may serve as inspiration to others, poems...

susanalabordeblaj
Jul 18, 20211 min read


"Rather Than Worry...", Poem by Morgan Harper Nichols
This is the poem that I will read this week in my online group yoga classes, from the beautiful book "All Along You Were Blooming", by...

susanalabordeblaj
Jul 4, 20211 min read


"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....

susanalabordeblaj
Jun 20, 20211 min read


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...

susanalabordeblaj
Jun 6, 20211 min read


"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...

susanalabordeblaj
Jun 6, 20212 min read


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...

susanalabordeblaj
May 8, 20211 min read


"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...

susanalabordeblaj
Apr 11, 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Mar 31, 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Mar 14, 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Feb 21, 20211 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Feb 13, 20212 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Feb 11, 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....

susanalabordeblaj
Jan 17, 20211 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Dec 13, 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Nov 28, 20201 min read


"Maybe Someday..." 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...

susanalabordeblaj
Nov 28, 20201 min read
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