{"id":8666,"date":"2015-03-26T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:36:01","slug":"feels-like-it-each-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-people\/feels-like-it-each-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Feels like it each time&#8230;Aloha:)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Music is not the universal language;<br \/>\nMusic is THE language of the Universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Jake Shimabukuro at Google<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Shimabukuro \u4e00\u671f\u4e00\u4f1a Ichigo Ichie\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvVfMUL7A1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIchigo-Ichie&#8230; what does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>No words needed&#8230; out of focus amateur video but then &#8230;visuals don&#8217;t matter either&#8230;Just grateful that the footage is shared.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Shimabukuro, Ichigo Ichie\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLLuzRop448?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nSo anyway, that&#8217;s what Ichigo-Ichie means in case you wondered as <a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/subbing-pros-and-cons-always-a-service\/\">I mentioned it few times in past posts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Referring to the first video above, <strong>his selection 53:25 min. into this concert<\/strong>, is his rendition of a song called &#8220;First Love&#8221; &#8230; since no one here knows what the original song Jake is playing off from sounds like &#8211; Here&#8217;s &#8220;First Love&#8221; &#8211; throw back 1999 &#8230;Utada Hikaru&#8217;s scrape-y raspy voice so popular back then.  &#8220;Hikaru&#8221; means &#8220;light&#8221; or more like &#8220;shining light&#8221;:)  Enjoy as this may get taken down right away&#8230;maybe.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Q5-4yMi-xg<\/p>\n<p>BTW, THIS is a good example of why some songs with lyrics just do not work in yoga classes &#8211; do we really want to listen to a sad experience of a heart break when we are practicing to press a delete button, erase and empty the mind of thoughts streaming ?  As much as we love the human voice, the words carry a lot of imagery both positive and negative so&#8230; sometimes when we want to clear our mind from memories from the past and planning or anxieties about the future, to live &#8220;radically&#8221; in the present, following the words can be distracting. (wait, just occurred to me that if you don&#8217;t know Japanese, it&#8217;s a Ohhh K!) <\/p>\n<p>Then, on the contrary, some words are inspiring and like a magical tonic, gives you the fuzzy warm happy feeling &#8211; it&#8217;s like how breath can dictate how you feel; so can the vibes in the air &#8211; so much can influence how you feel, whether it be sounds, lights, color, vibes, touch &#8230; so instead of reacting each time to the unsettling ripples  &#8230; it&#8217;s good to allow the ripples to settle &#8230;then you can see the reflection off the surface better &#8211; ripples settle, the cloudy swirl in the waters eventually settles and there&#8217;s lucidity &#8230; with that clarity; follow your heart.  <\/p>\n<p>Easily said than done?<\/p>\n<p>Aloha:)<\/p>\n<p>* He makes it look so effortless, playing that ukulele but one knows &#8230;how hard it is to bring out such complex and textured sounds from a very simple instrument like that &#8211; it&#8217;s not the violins of the world.  SO, really, cannot complain about my wrists &#8211; practice correctly. repeat &#038; repeat over and over&#8230;is kind of the thought I come away with, realizing the hours of practice to attain such mastery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music is not the universal language; Music is THE language of the Universe. &#8211; Jake Shimabukuro at Google Ichigo-Ichie&#8230; what does it mean? No words needed&#8230; out of focus amateur video but then &#8230;visuals don&#8217;t matter either&#8230;Just grateful that the footage is shared. So anyway, that&#8217;s what Ichigo-Ichie means in case you wondered as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8731,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}