yoga holidaze schedule

heading northward..
the sun soon penduluming
toward the light ~

here then..
the yoga class schedule
for the days ahead ...

no classes on wednesday, decembre 25th
                      thursday, decembre  26th
no classes on wednesday, january 1 2014
                      thursday, january 2

remembre:
the book of quotes coming in february..
the 14th..
if you'd like to give one as a gift..
we have sumptuous gift certificates readily available now
& if you order before the solstice bright,
the CD of  pages is included..
(you can print your own as offerings)

this will be an exquisite hand bound piece of love..
worth the $1 a page..$108 ~

mere enthusiasm is the all in all ..
passion and expression are beauty itself .
               ~ blake

2 poems by jane

              MULE HEART
              On the days when the rest 
              have failed you, 
              let this much be yours - 
              flies, dust, an unnameable odor,
              the two waiting baskets:
              one for the lemons and passion,
              the other for all that you have lost.
              Both empty, 
              it will come to your shoulder,
              breathe slowly against your bare arm.
              If you offer it hay, it will eat.
              Offered nothing,
              it will stand as long as you ask. 
              The little bells of the bridle will hang
              beside you quietly, 
              in the heat and the tree's thin shade.
              Do not let its sparse mane deceive you,
              or the way the left ear swivels into dream.
              This too is a gift of the gods,
              calm and complete. 


FOR WHAT BINDS US

There are names for what binds us:

strong forces, weak forces.

Look around, you can see them:

the skin that forms in a half-empty cup,

nails rusting into the places they join,

joints dovetailed on their own weight.

The way things stay so solidly

wherever they've been set down—

and gravity, scientists say, is weak.

And see how the flesh grows back

across a wound, with a great vehemence,

more strong

than the simple, untested surface before.

There's a name for it on horses,

when it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh,

as all flesh,

is proud of its wounds, wears them

as honors given out after battle,

small triumphs pinned to the chest—

And when two people have loved each other

see how it is like a

scar between their bodies,

stronger, darker, and proud;

how the black cord makes of them a single fabric

that nothing can tear or mend.

                                  ~jane hirschfield

2 poems by ray

somehow ray bradbury has found his way under my glasses..

two poems targeted my heart  ~ bull's eye!

what i do is me - for that i came
for gerard manley hopkins

what i do is me - for that i came.
what i do is me!
for that i came into the world!
so said Gerard;
so said that gentle Manley Hopkins.
in his poetry and prose he saw the Fates that chose
him in genetics, then set him free to find his way
among the sly electric printings in his blood.
God thumbprints thee! he said.
within your hour of birth
he touches hand to brow, he whorls and softly stamps
the ridges and the symbols of his soul above your
eye!
but in that selfsame hour, full born and shouting
shocked pronouncements of one's birth,
in mirrored gaze of midwife, mother, doctor
see that Thumbprint fade and fall away in flesh
so, lost, erased, you seek a lifetime's days for it
and dig deep to find the sweet instructions there
put by when God first circuited and printed thee to
life:
"go hence! do this! do that! do yet another thing!
this self is yours! be it!"
and what is that ?! you cry at hearthing breast,
is there no rest? no, only journeying to be yourself.
and even as the Birthmark vanishes, in seashell ear
now fading to a sigh, his last words send you in the
world:
"not mother, father, grandfather are you.
be not another. be the self i signed you in your blood.
i swarm your flesh with you. seek that.
and, finding, be what no one else can be.
i leave you gifts of Fate most secret; find no other's Fate,
for if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair
no country far enough to to hide your loss.
i circumnavigate each cell in you
your merest molecule is right and true.
look there for destinies indelible and fine
and rare.
ten thousand futures share your blood each instant;
each drop of blood a cloned electric twin of you.
in merest wound on hand read replicas of what i
planned
          and knew
before your birth, then hid it in your heart.
no part of you that does not snug and hold and hide
the self that you will be if faith abide.
what you do is thee. for that i gave you birth.
be that. so be the only you that's truly you on earth."

dear Hopkins. gentle Manley. rare Gerard. fine
name.
what we do is us. because of you. for that we came.


doing is being

doing is being.
to have done's not enough;
to stuff yourself with doing - that's the game.
to  name yourself each hour by what's done,
to tabulate your time at sunset's gun
and find yourself in acts
you could not know before the facts
you wooed from secret self, which much needs wooing,
so doing brings it out,
kills doubt by simply jumping, rushing, running
forth to be
the now-discovered me.
to not do is to die,
or lie about and lie about the things
you just might do some day.
away with that!
tomorrow empty stays
if no man plays it into being
with his motioned way of seeing.
let your body lead your mind -
blood the guide dog to the blind;
so then pracice and rehearse
to find the heart-soul's universe,
knowing that by moving/seeing
proves for all time: doing's being!

a wing & a prayer ~ book of quotes

108 quotes, poems & sayings

selected by dunja

written in calligraphy by Ora Mae

on sheets measuring 11 x 4 1/4"

held by book boards 

covered in Lama Li paper *

w/ a wing & a prayer design

on the cover.

~*~

Books may be pre-ordered

at any time before release date

by cash or cheque payable to: 

dunja lingwood

After we recoup our materials cost,

all proceeds will go toward

upkeep of the wing:

rent, props, floor, etc...

We will release only 108 copies 

of the original hand-assembled book.

However, 

orders placed by Decembre 21st  2013

will include a disc of the scanned calligraphies

from which prints may be made.

We are asking only a dollar a page..

for the grande total of 

$108.00

The finished books will be available

on February 14th ~ Valentine's Day ~ 2014

imagine!

We will host a book release party

with plenty of love & gingerbread cookies for all.

NOTE:

If you would like to give this as a holiday gift,

we will have lovely printed Certificates 

available by Decembre 15th.

~*~

*Lama Li paper is handmade by Nepalese villagers.

10% of profits benefit their community development projects.

yoga in anacortes 2

many a folk turned up for our gratitude in motion
thanksgiving yoga class yesterday..8 am ..imagine..
we filled the studio with 22 yoginis and yogis
& collected $715 to send off to yoga behind bars..

GENEROSITY IS A GAINFUL TRADE
                                        ~ rumi

thank you - to all who participated..
stretching the edges of our own walls..
opening the doors, windows & pockets
of our hearts, bones & minds...

NOTE:
please drop the friday afternoon class
(4:30pm) from your schedules ~

if you feel a need to climb those 3 flights of stairs
on friday, decembre 6th..a wing will be open
for the first friday art walk ..

heart sutra sit..rohatsu..
sunday, decembre 8th
4-6pm
by donation

it is rare to meet one another 
and practice what is rare to practice.
    ~ dogen

ever so greatful for our practice together..
om!

thanks giving yoga anacortes

early on thanksgiving day..
there is a way to say
thank-you...

a wing and a prayer
up the stair
8 am

all the gelt, the gold, the pieces of eight
will be sent directly to:
YOGA BEHIND BARS..

are we all in prison..?
are we all free..?
let's wake up and see ~

619 commercial avenue
#34
anacortes, wa. 98221

360 770 7891

hunt for the bounty with the snare of gratitude...
                                     ~ rumi

yoga in anacortes

it's been since valentine's day..
since i have posted any wee thing..

i have landed  ~
back in the olde
wing and a prayer yoga studio..
619 commercial avenue
 room # 34

this time w/ a new and improved..
well, olde and splendidly funky fir floor ~

been receiving some fairly strong nudges
toward a web site..facebook... linkedin..
o my o ~
so my so..

i thought: heydeeho..
i'll post the yoga schedule on the peace blog..
a good place to start..

jeri lancaster, a long time student and recent teacher - training grad
is offering a class on monday evenings ~ 7:00 pm
please call her @ : 360 299 2519

as for my offerings:
tuesday and thursday  8:00 am
wednesday, friday & saturday 9:00 am
wednesday 7:00 pm 
friday afternoon  4:30 pm
same low price ~ drop-in / $15
series of 8 ~ $108

once an month..
on sunday ~ 4 to 6 pm 

11 novembre  - 

8  decembre

we chant the heart sutra..
do a mala round of om gate gate..
sitting meditation w/ a kin-hin inbetwixt ( walking meditation)..
by donation

360 770 7891

this is where i will post  schedule changes
& exciting announcements..
poetry and cosmic who-ha..

'tis the time of gratitude..
always..
thanks for the practice of yoga..
the study of dharma..
the exchange of wisdom w/ brilliant (ordinary) beings..

as it says on the hard copy of the yoga schedule;
nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
   ~ RWE

may it be just so!