{"id":25271,"date":"2020-05-04T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=25271"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:32:36","slug":"this-landscape-that-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/this-landscape-that-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"This landscape; that vista"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Assume Wanderlust Squaw is cancelled this summer … as soooo many other venues due to – um, so how about world pandemic? Unfortunate but maybe we can get back to the real essence of the practice … it’s not just about perfect body, about commercial success and stress management.

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Wanderlust? Olympics? venues ranging in all scales – that … Road trip? Maybe even a cruise? (cringe) ? a flight to ? summer plans? all postponed and cancelled … in keeping with the theme, Covid-19, the Pandemic. No need to panic, why lose any sleep with anxieties over this … we all and each vulnerable. I don’t consider acceptance as defeat nor a resignation. Acceptance, rather than denial or despair, with what’s going on now is probably something like … an enlightenment. Something like that inner reservoir of wisdom we are forced to take sips from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kissing “that” goodbye and and letting go of plans, the itinerary … the expectations, and rather coming to our own in our own space<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kissing goodbye the illusions of control over our destiny and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

we then<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kissing this earth; honoring our heart like a child<\/p>\n\n\n\n

slide our hands forward and slowly raise our gaze to a world that looks different <\/p>\n\n\n\n

perhaps there’s a little clarity in that landscape so … uncertain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A child faces uncertainty each day but they know each is blessed with an inner compass, a GPS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that reliable sherpa within <\/p>\n\n\n\n

who will guide us trekking this unknown path… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and beyond the blurred and hazy plateau of a flattened curve <\/p>\n\n\n\n

there will be another new vista that will come into focus <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t know what that vista will look like – resuming “normal” life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would that look like? Is it a de-ja-vu, the resumption of the same “normal”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or would the new normal look different? How different? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pray that <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will never forget<\/p>\n\n\n\n

what we need as much as this breath we take; this oxygen we take<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we not take for granted all <\/p>\n\n\n\n

that enriches our lives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will never forget <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t want to forget how much we missed <\/p>\n\n\n\n

how it feels to just walk and talk shoulder to shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to slap a friend’s back in camaraderie,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with no fear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

how it feels to see and experience a concert, admire a priceless art, laugh at the same cue seeing a movie together with other humans, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

together feel the vibes, the goosebumps <\/p>\n\n\n\n

with no fear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

how it feels to experience a being bedside at a hospital bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to listen, encourage or to just … be there <\/p>\n\n\n\n

to hold that hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

holding space, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

to be close to those we feel close was a no brainer before<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To not let the lonely be left alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took for granted those auras … those beautiful rainbow of auras we felt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took granted the handshakes, a tap on the shoulder and those <\/p>\n\n\n\n

hugs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We won’t forget that <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To touch, to be touched … just to see someone in common space, just to share the same space and breathe the common air <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To gather<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come into circle <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To just walk over; run over; drive over to visit a place a person a venue with utter freedom and abandon … on a whim … before we thought it’s just money, time and energy – lack of it – that prevented us from traveling around the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That freedom and abandon to which we threw ourselves into the flow is no longer our birthright but a privilege, a gift so miraculous where the ordinary is extraordinary in that life of heightened awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take off on an impulse to an exotic land<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To escape to freedom and joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is not a fantasy but still within in our mind’s power<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to get up and go <\/p>\n\n\n\n

to dance to that rhythm of life is within our minds’ stream of consciousness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we are free as ever before and after<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when we trust and source our inner vast universe <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With gratitude<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Me-Kay<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No poet, just a scribble – on May the Fourth 2020 a day like no other; a year like no other …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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