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anandalila yoga

the sacred journey

9/24/2015

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Let us not forget the downward journey, into the lower chakras, into the darkness, into the body, into sexuality, into relationship, into family, and into the earth. So often, even if in subtle and unconscious ways, the spiritual journey becomes exclusively identified with the upward, the light, and the transcendent. We want to ascend in a rush to leave behind the very messy, chaotic, untamed, unresolvable, out of control world of feelings, sensations, emotions, and of the somatic mandala altogether.

Some are reframing the sacred journey not so much around how to get from ‘here’ to ‘there,’ but how to fully be Here. Not so much about traveling from ‘lower to higher,’ from human to divine, or from questions to answers. Not so organized around landing in some constructed, safe, resting place of certainty and bliss, free from the uncontrollable, wild, undomesticated movement of love. Not how do I become less vulnerable, but how do I dedicate my life to the embodiment of unbearable vulnerability in all its forms.

Rather, they are aware of a call to offer this muddy body, these feelings, these emotions, this imagination, this erupting creativity that is the human being as a vessel through which reorienting love can finally come pouring through the relative. Not ‘how do I get to the absolute,’ but how do I become transparent to the always, already revelations of the absolute in the raging world of time and space. Here. Now.

Love is whole and it can only know itself through totality. It will never be satisfied with a partial vehicle through which it can emerge. It is longing for the union of the ascending and descending currents which have been placed inside your holy nervous system.

There is no state of consciousness other than this one right here, right now. Dare to honor *this* one, the one that has been given, as a pure expression of primordial wholeness. There is no ‘better’ or ‘more spiritual’ state coming tomorrow. There is no kingdom of heaven arriving soon. There no love waiting around the corner. There is no grace that comes in the future.

The only grace that could ever be is taking form right now as the translucence of the sensual world, as your arms when you hold another, as your lips as you speak kindness, and as the wisdom field of the somatic landscape. The miracle has already occurred. Gaze into the mirror of your own heart and you will see.

-Matt Licata
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you are worth all you desire...

4/23/2015

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Please, I beg of you, pet more cats, wear more fringe, make all of your own rules, have wild sex, love your past for what it gave you, be naughty when you feel like it, have breakfast for dinner, leave the friendship, break up with normal, be the crazy you want to see in the world, burn candles during the day, get to know your dark side & learn to love it, don’t take on other people’s vampiric energy, sleep in if you need to, discover the power of a vintage slip, know your words have power & remember that you are divinely uniquely twisted DNA & every single microscopic bit of you is pure magic. Never, ever forget you are worth all you desire.

And more.

Stay gold. Stay wild. Love big. Laugh hard. Be free.

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on writing - 

7/27/2014

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"Write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwords in a recasting. it will come if it is there and if you will let it come." - Gertrude Stein

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walk with me

6/15/2014

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Walk with me out to the rim of life,
Beyond security.
Take me to the exquisite edge of courage
And release me to become.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
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like the moon...

4/1/2014

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needlework

2/13/2014

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"I want a chance to undo it. I want to work my needles back through the craziness of that moment and all the unseen, unknown moments that led up to it, and then reknit to a different now.

But time ain't made by sticks and string. And life isn't knit, but sewn. Once the fabric of our thought and vision are cut, it’s done. The severed pieces of our experience can never be rejoined, only mended.

And the best we can do with the scraps is to treasure them...set them aside for another time and place, to be arranged into something new."
~ Crys Williams, needlework, 12/17/2012

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truth.

1/17/2014

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you are made of the sea and stars

1/13/2014

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riotous

12/21/2013

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everything changes

11/30/2013

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in memory of ria pell

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    Anandalila is a tantric hatha yoga teacher and moksha magick practitioner. When she is not on the mat, she enjoys reading, writing, music, birdwatching, and, of course, chocolate.

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