Siphon Off The Speed with Kimberlee at Yoga Loka: Reno, Nevada: August 3, 2019

Hanging out on my deck, feet up, siphoning off the speed after arriving home from one of my favorite tours ever. The tour felt good, and it also feels good to be home in Reno. And yoga this morning in my home studio Yoga Loka was simply divine.

As much as I have mourned not living in the big house in the big valley, I do have to admit I love the ease and convenience, the clean vibe of our Reno house. It's all growing on me and I appreciate the miracle of ease more and more.

Which might indicate how much I've not been at ease for most my life. Ug. Enough already.

Ease is a practice because ease is a high state of consciousness. Have you ever seen Buddha or Jesus amped up?

I even enjoyed our recent tour, from which I arrived yesterday after a long flight from Boston. I'm surprising myself, up and down, right and left, inside and outside with a more sustained sense of ease. "Calm is higher than ecstasy", said Ramana Maharishi, and I'm finding that's true.

What's required in life is to siphon off the speed. Our modern lives and thoughts run fast, and for me, often furious. The asana practice slows us down, and Kimberlee took us even slower today, doing a lot of work with tree and baddha konasana from many angles, mainly from the ground. It felt positively divine and maybe its because the present moment and our subtle energy is divine. So often we think the practices are sacred, but it’s us that's sacred.

This is really important. We think its all about our muscles and bones, the events of our life, even our sheer will that moves us, but it's really our life force, prana. The yogis tell us to declutter ourselves so that we can move around with less pain, more clarity, unobstructed ego. Divine purpose.

What if it's all about the freedom inside? Erich Schiffmann suggests we "BE the place where love flows through", which I've misinterpreted as "be IN the place where love flows through" until I wore his t shirt on tour where the lesson literally was in my face all day.

What if it isn't about the place, or the job, or the person you’re with, or the food you eat, or the music you listen to? I understand they are all contributing factors, but what really only counts, it seems, is to be. Calm, at ease with yourself. Erich adds, "its good for others, and its good for you".

So so so good.

Health, Love, and Rock N Roll

“Be the place where Love flows through” —Erich Schiffmann. Here In Cape Cod practicing being the LOVE. xo