SEMI-DAILY

Musings

About yoga, life, and how hard it is to sit still.

Marianne Mollmann Marianne Mollmann

We are enough

I am sitting with the enormity of my grief for humanity this morning. We are enough. And I love us.

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Sleeping it off

I know, because I am more than half a century old, that it is ok, even necessary, to have feelings. And yet I am exhausted.

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What it takes to change

If you think you can force yourself into a pose from one day to another, you’ll be sorely disappointed (and both sore and disappointed).

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There is only now

Time is a construct, as are money and gender and race. But we must remember that none of it is real.

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Back to yoga

As I move through familiar shapes — salabhasana, virabhadrasana, bakasana — it is like returning after a long journey.

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Change starts with me

It is incredibly hard to be fully aligned. The issue is looking for others to change before we do it ourselves.

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All we have to do is try

Shoulders are the most flexible joint in our already complex bodies. There is a parallel with our lives generally.

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Size matters

Human collectives are messy, no matter the purpose. Whether it is a collective, a company, a country, or a coven, the larger the messier.

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Moving at the speed of presence

As it happens, I don’t always need to move slowly, I just need to move at the speed of my presence. There is a difference. And maybe, just maybe, that difference is yoga.

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Efficiency is not the point

Efficiency, as it happens is not an indicator of joy and not even always a net positive. Efficiency in one can lead to inefficiency in the whole.

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Anything can happen in the dark

It is not a coincidence that when I am distracted and stressed, and therefore need the centering that comes with meditation, I find it hard to actually close my eyes.

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Balance in movement

I mourn the imminent shift in my daily routine. Re-finding balance will require flexing muscles I might not know I had.

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Can’t buy me love

I miss many things about Brooklyn, but they are not really about the place.

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Presence with pain

We all have the capacity to love, and it starts by loving ourselves enough to recognize where we contribute to suffering and harm.

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