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Reiki Master • Yoga Instructor • Integrated Positional Therapy Certified Practitioner

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Ode to Keeping Quiet, by Pablo Neruda

September 11, 2019 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

May this poem offer solace as it did eighteen years ago. ODE TO KEEPING QUIET Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let’s not speak any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be a delicious […]

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Welcome summer!

June 21, 2019 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

The Seven Of Pentacles Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans as things grow in the real world, slowly enough. If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water, if you provide birds that eat insects […]

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: gardening, Marge Piercy, offthemat, parenting, poetry, solstice, summer, wisdom, yoga

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Physical & psychological together

April 12, 2019 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

“This is the beginning of wisdom, the start of the process of putting things into proper perspective. …[recognizing] that there are physical disorders that play a psychological role in human biology.” John E. Sarno, MD in Healing Back Pain, the Mind-Body Connection

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: mind-body, pain, wisdom

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Rest in Peace, Mary Oliver

January 17, 2019 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

Wild Geese You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the […]

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: acceptance, healing, mindfulness, poetry, wisdom

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Keep the Channel Open

June 29, 2018 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will […]

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: energy, martha graham, motion, movement, wisdom

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More than half the tree is spread out in the soil under your feet…

June 22, 2018 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

The Seven Of Pentacles Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans as things grow in the real world, slowly enough. If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water, if you provide birds that eat insects […]

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: gardening, Marge Piercy, offthemat, parenting, poetry, solstice, summer, wisdom, yoga

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Are you paying attention?

May 25, 2018 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

The first question of yoga is, “are you paying attention?” The second question of yoga is, “are you paying attention from your heart? Yoga is Awakening. Centering yourself in the Universe. Anything else is a bonus. Without, it’s just exercise.   — Arthur Kilmurray

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: asana, heart centered, inquiry, meditation, mindfulness, questions, truth, universe, wisdom, yoga

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From the Archives: Teaching Grace

February 26, 2018 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

Her name, appropriately, was Grace. She came two or three times to my yoga class at the university gym. A conundrum of drop in classes is that it’s impossible to plan a class sequence, and as a relatively newly minted teacher prone to anxiety, I managed my teaching anxiety by planning my class from start […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: gratitude, inquiry, self care, wisdom, yoga

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Welcome summer!

June 21, 2017 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

The Seven Of Pentacles Under a sky the color of pea soup she is looking at her work growing away there actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans as things grow in the real world, slowly enough. If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water, if you provide birds that eat insects […]

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: gardening, Marge Piercy, offthemat, parenting, poetry, solstice, summer, wisdom, yoga

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The power to heal yourself

June 2, 2017 by Ginny.25 Leave a Comment

“You have the power to heal yourself and you need to know that. We think so often that we’re helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds. Claim and consciously use your power.” Louise Hay

Filed Under: Wisdom Tagged With: healing, wisdom

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