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Autumn 2021 Newsletter ..Love is all there is!

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It is love alone that gives worth to all things. ~ St. Theresa of Avilla (16th century nun and mystic) Good morning to my dear new and old friends, I agree with the Beatles that "Love is all we need." Right now, I'd like to add that love is all there is. Anything we experience outside of the experience of love is actually an illusion. We came into the world fully present, awake, loving and bright lights of joy. Somewhere along the way...we lost (in varying levels of intensity) this profound innate wisdom. We have tools to re-learn how to experience being in this state of loving through the rest of our days. It is both a mammoth undertaking, and yet it can be easy with the proper conditions, and teacher. Take some time each day to go within, and check in with how you are feeling. It doesn't need to be a formal meditation. Turn on soft music, or sit in nature quietly and just listen. Count your in-breath as "one", and out-breath as "two". Go up to t...

watching the maple tree, outside an open window

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  "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." - Rumi watching the maple tree, outside an open window light up, as sun paints the fields-- long declarative lines of gold on green birds dart to greet the eastern sky: how the warmth of morning opens- like hands released after prayer silence, the open door to our inner world, spinning more blues riding on a breeze  

waking in the dark, a flicker of light--for Durga

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    waking in the dark- smiles & laughter line the shadowed crevices   remembering intentions from last night's yoga class: may the peaceful nurturing found be transported to all people, at all times to counter-balance the inefficiencies of a wailing world

Good Night--poem by W.S. Merwin

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  Sleep softly my old love my beauty in the dark night is a dream we have as you know as you know night is a dream you know an old love in the dark around you as you go without end as you know in the night where you go sleep softly my old love without end in the dark in the life that you know WS Merwin From ' The Shadow of Sirius' British Virgin Islands, by katyajo (c) '13

blue day dreams--haiku

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  blue day dreams are spun while walking east, mid-morning warm sand underfoot

Carl Sandburg Quote

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  I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. — Carl Sandburg

holding on, letting go--haiku

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  gray day, sodden earth signs of decay, and dear life: holding on, letting go

eternal sunrise haiku

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rainy gray morning the sun still burns within one common heart at dawn    

Saturday began cool and damp..

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  Saturday begins cool and damp. Sun pops in at lunch time, then vanishes with a northeastern breeze, through the maple trees.   By mid afternoon, the sky plays shape-shifter. One second the sun strikes through the Japanese maple- lighting up the rosy beginnings of its leaves. Next second, sky sighs in gray, and wind dies down.    By late afternoon,, the wind picks up speed, then abruptly stops. A slight gust from the south, with darkening clouds signals rain is imminent.   One bird rests on the peak of the pine, then flies southward.   We will see the sun reappear like a bunny in a magician's hat several more times before the sky turns to deep shades of blackened lava.    A velvet texture as sumptuous to eyes as to our viscera-while lying on a cool dark mysterious earth. Praising all beings, burning holes through deception, declaring love matters most of all.    

Garden yoga Cancelled due to rain.

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 Hi dear friends, There will be no garden yoga today at 4:30 pm, due to rain today, and a very damp earth. Hopefully, we'll meet again on Friday, at 9:30, weather permitting. We hope we can continue all Garden Yoga classes, through the month of October.  Beginning November first, we will be moving indoors. Pre- registration is required,as we can only accommodate four yogis at a time when practicing yoga. Namaste 🙏💜.                                                            -   Yogi kate

Happy World Poetry Day!

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sky brightens, a soft cantaloupe sky nourishes...so early-- birds sleep in, dreaming--of sweet fruit, rising.. with delight...then waking, tasting----- in meditative flight

Earth and Sky Reopens!!

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Greetings to New and old friends. Who doesn't love fall? Apples pumpkins, hayrides, mulled cider and crisp cool autumn walks with the dazzling colors: crimson, yellow,burnt sienna leaves spiraling off trees... What's NOT to love about fall? . Earth and Sky Center has been busy preparing for opening its doors once again for healing treatments, one on one gentle (chair) yoga, yoga classes and Healing Retreats. We care about you-- your health and safety as the pandemic has not left us just yet!! We disinfect all surfaces before and after each client. We ask you to be vaccinated, and wear a mask for all services, except outdoor yoga( masks optional for garden yoga). For more info/ directions/ schedule, kindly email: healerkate77@gmail.com or call, leave message( no texts please). 631 334-2663. Thanks for your interest in our Center. We look forward to meeting you, and to continue providing wellness services to you, your family, and friends. Bright healing Vibes!💜💥💜 Ka...