Walk the 8 Fold Path
Online Meditations
Welcome ~ your heart and my heart are very old friends.
This meditation is an excerpt from The Ecstasy of Practice Audiobook. The healing meditation includes three traditional practices: a breathing experience, a classic meditation and guided imagery exercise, culminating with the Blue Medicine Buddha mantra. In just seven minutes enter into deep calm, insight and peace.
"At Home" Inner Arts Resources
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Maha Bhanda (1).pdf
The Garden
where nature meets nurture and the season reveals its meaning
May Garden
🌿Monthly Inspiration:
At the Threshold of May
🌿Botanical Guides:
Lilac & Hawthorn
🌿Flower Journey:
Peony
🌿Gardeners' Conservatory Gift
The Conservatory
The Garden is a free monthly offering
a place to pause, breathe, and meet the season.
The Conservatory is the deeper sanctuary, with new practices, botanical teachings, and quiet companionship each month. $12/monthly
🌿The Threshold of May Yoga Flow
🌿Circulation of Light Qi Flow
🌿Yin Yoga for the Heart
🌿Architectural Alignment
🌿Sun Breathing
At the Threshold of May
Botanical Wisdom
May arrives as a threshold, an overlook between seasons where the world pauses and something in us begins to take shape. Lilacs breathe their brief fragrance, peonies gather their fullness, and the month opens like an invitation.
This is the place where what we welcome, welcomes us. The natural world is generous with blossoms, fragrance, color, and warmth. When we meet that generosity with openness, something in us is met in return.
In Ayurveda, Kapha’s cool steadiness is giving way to Pitta’s clarity and fire, and the body feels more awake and directional.
In Chinese Medicine, Wood with its vision and growth is handing the baton to Heart Fire with its connection and warmth. The threshold is the handoff. The heart is the organ of welcome and the organ that receives welcome.
May is the moment when vision warms into connection, a month of gentle becoming and allowing what has been forming to finally be received.
Lilac
The Flower of Returning Light
Lilac arrives in May like a remembered blessing, releasing a fragrance that feels both ancient and immediate. Its bloom is brief yet unmistakable, a reminder that some openings are meant to be savored rather than held. Lilac invites a return to oneself, the way scent stirs memory and beauty rises to meet what is true.
It shows us that renewal may arrive gently, clarity may come softly, and the heart often opens through recognition rather than effort.
I return to what is true.
I open to what remembers me.
Hawthorn
The Flower of Heart Courage
Hawthorn blooms greet May with brilliant white blossoms that hold both tenderness and strength.
Hawthorn carries a quiet courage that rises slowly and protects without closing. It shows that openness can be a kind of strength, and that the heart grows steadier each time it chooses to be fully.
I open with steadiness.
I meet the world with a clear and gentle heart.
May Journey
Peonies for Romance & Prosperity
Peony's bloom feels ceremonial, a moment when beauty reveals what has been forming in silence.
Peony carries the sense of ripening that comes from warmth, trust, and inner permission.
It reminds us that expansion can be gentle and that becoming whole is often a slow and honest unfurling.
Journey with Peony
through this reflection
into the romance of life.
Breathe with Peony
Breathe in abundance,
breathe out generous love.
Like peony's lush petals,
let your breath unfold
in layers of richness.
May Conservatory Gardener's Gift
Enjoy The Threshold of May Yoga Flow
for all the experiences:
Circulation of Light Qi Flow Yin Heart Yoga
Architectural Alignment Sun Breathing Ayurveda late Spring
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