Priceless Gifts

[Lisa Walford]

Sunday, Yoga Gives Back, 4:00, the Essence of Pranayama. On a more intimate dimension then breathing techniques that help you calm down or get to sleep, the pranayama practice is nothing less then threading the needle of time from our outward facing reality to the most subtle, delicious awareness of presence itself. When practiced devotedly over a period of time, experience strips us clean of all the threads of the little self identity until what remains is this priceless gift, presence. 

Join me here  for Sunday's event. If you cannot join live, you will receive the recording. 

 

Anna Swir (1909-1984) was a Polish resistance fighter serving as a nurse during WW2. At one point she came within one hour of being executed before her reprieve. Her poetry, along with her contemporary Czeslaw Milosz, was strongly influenced by the war.

This poem speaks so strongly of what is essential, when all else is stripped away from us. At this time we are seeing what might previously have been unimaginable happening. Priceless gifts are just that, moments of shared humanity, one breath at a time.   

An empty day without events

And that is why

it grew immense

as space. And suddenly

happiness of being

entered me.

I heard

in my heartbeat

the birth of time

and each instant of life

one after the other

came rushing in

like precious gifts.