Let's begin the New Year Dancing!

[Lisa Walford]

Happy New Year everyone.. I rarely set intentions these days, except to recognize the value of "sitting near", of being still and listening. This is a familiar theme. In the prayer of St Francis of Assisi, he asks: "Make me an instrument of your peace../.. let me not so much seek to be understood, as to understand.. (paraphrased). In the yoga pantheon, the teachings of the Upanishads are based on students sitting near the teacher to receive spiritual knowledge. These days, everything is potentially a teacher and a Sacred space, when I sit near to myself, wait, and listen. This is my New Year's prayer. Then, there is this magnificent poem by Hafiz! 

Join me this weekend at the Center for Yoga to dance a little, yoga a little, and sit near to our breath.. Call the studio to register. Masks and vaccines are required. 323.498.0222

https://centerforyogala.com/workshops-2/    

Hafiz: 

I sometimes forget

that I was created for Joy.

My mind is too busy.

My Heart is too heavy

for me to remember

that I have been

called to dance

the Sacred dance of life.

I was created to smile

To Love

To be lifted up

And to lift others up.

O’ Sacred One

Untangle my feet

from all that ensnares.

Free my soul.

That we might

Dance

and that our dancing

might be contagious.

~Hafiz~