To Fall in Love with the World...

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        April 5, 2022

To Fall in Love with the World...
...isn't to ignore or overlook suffering.

            Be here with me, in the Truth.

                            Practices to support your life

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“It has taken me all of my life up until now to fall in love with the world… To fall in love with the world isn’t to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry, to watch as the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens, and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony, or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.” 

- John Green excerpted from Anthropocene Reviewed

Remembering these words as I work to stay open…. even as, on a cellular level, my heart and body attempt to shut down and off. 

The easy path is to turn away; to disconnect and remain numb to life. But I stubbornly refuse to take the easy path. I adamantly refuse to turn away from life and all that it includes.

Please, everyone, stay sensitive to life. Be broken. Stay open. Be filled & emptied. Fall in love with life anyway.

, Ellie

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MONTHLY MEDITATIONS

*IN-PERSON*

First Saturday of Each Month

by donation*

*April donation update: $350 to Voices of Children Foundation who are providing psychological and psychosocial support to children who are experiencing war in Ukraine

Dates for 2022:

May 7 9:00am-12:30pm (Half Day Silent Retreat) - REGISTER HERE

June 4 9:00-10:15am - REGISTER HERE

NO SIT IN JULY

August 6 9:00-10:15am

September 10 9:00am-12:30pm (Half Day Silent Retreat)

October 1 9:00-10:15am

November 5 9:00-10:15am

December 3 9:00am-12:30pm (Half Day Silent Retreat)

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Digital Resource Library

I am thrilled to be able to offer you a brand new, beautifully created digital Resource Library. This is the new home of ALL of my recorded classes from close to 18 months of teaching virtually! 
A monthly membership of only $20 will give you access to all of my short & long yoga classes, short & long meditations, and pranayama practices. I plan to publish new content each month (deep relaxation / yoga nidra, more meditations, etc). 
To join, please submit payment here. Once you are registered, I will email you the password.

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"Until we make the unconscious conscious it directs our life and we call it fate." {Carl Jung}

            “If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” {James Baldwin}

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