by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 5, 2021 | Journal
My Sweet Bear, You first came to me on a beam of moonlight that streamed through June’s open window. It was a time of mad love in my home, when your papa and I were dripping with so much of the stuff that we could think of nothing else but to create. No — you...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 4, 2021 | Journal
Mudras are among the most subtle of the yoga practices. But subtle practices have the greatest effects. This one is simple, but powerful. Pushpaputa is the mudra of offering flowers. Flowers offer their beauty to us because that is what they do. We offer flowers to...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 4, 2021 | Journal
To get free sometimes looks like you’re losing your mind. Because that is exactly what is happening. The mind is not a friend to freedom. Its purpose is to minimize danger, and freedom means we risk something. We have to thank the mind for that, because we aren’t...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 2, 2021 | Journal
The cures always contradict one another.You can make an altar containing all five elements facing East, or you can let your child place her collection of seashells and pinecones on whatever windowsill she likes and call that your sanctuary. You can do pranayama and...
by Sonja Semyonova | Mar 1, 2021 | Journal
We have lost a lot. Car keys. Phones. Minds. Most of this will likely never be found again. Even the spiritual teachings are incomplete. Sometimes pages were ripped from the original texts to prevent the information from being shared with the masses. Sometimes...
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