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Walking Meditation

January 29, 2012
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© R.M.

Take my hand.
We will walk.
We will only walk.
We will enjoy our walk
without thinking of arriving anywhere.
Walk peacefully.
Walk happily.
Our walk is a peace walk.
Our walk is a happiness walk.

Then we learn
that there is no peace walk;
that peace is the walk;
that there is no happiness walk;
that happiness is the walk.
We walk for ourselves.
We walk for everyone
always hand in hand.

Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom under our feet.
Kiss the earth with your feet.
Print on Earth your love and happiness.

Earth will be safe
when we feel in us enough safety.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

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Don’t Mistake The Finger For The Moon

January 14, 2012

“Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?”

Don’t mistake the finger for the moon

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Qu’est-ce que c’est?

January 14, 2012

© R.M.

What is it that makes you GO? What’s in your mojo? There must be something to it because some days you got it and some days you don’t.

“I believe that our organism is so complicated that every time something happens to it, is experienced by it, we are thrown out of balance and at each moment we have to regain this balance. The scientists call this state “homeostasis,” this eternal attempt to regain our balance.” -Fritz Perls

Is the drive that makes you go creating balance or just fueling a search for balance? Is driving, looking and searching going past the point of balance? Homeostasis may best be fueled by more staying and less going.

Posted in Make Yoga, Mystic Pilates, Physical Training, Wellness |

The Pilates High Ladder Barrel Plank Push-up

January 11, 2012

© C.M.

The Pilates Plank is known around the world,

Can you do it?

Birds do it, bees do it

Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it…

In Spain, the best upper sets do it

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it,
Some courageous kangaroos do it
Let’s do it…

Some Argentines, without means, do it

People say in Boston even beans do it
Let’s do it…

Romantic sponges, they say, do it
Oysters down in oyster bay do it
Let’s do it…

Cold Cape Cod clams, ‘gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish, do it
Let’s do it…

In shallow shoals English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let’s do it…

Lets do the Pilates Plank!

(adapted from Cole Porter’s song “Let’s Do It” written in 1928)

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