You Say Tomato, I Say Yoga

Surely, this is what we mean when we talk about the midline?
(That would be madhyama for the geeks.)

It's the place of potency and potential.
And of yoga, of course.

Sometimes poetry says it best.

The Decision
There is a moment before a shape
hardens, a color sets.
Before the fixative or heat of kiln.
The letter might still be taken
from the mailbox.
The hand held back by the elbow,
the word kept between the larynx pulse
and the amplifying drum-skin of the room's air.
The thorax of an ant is not as narrow.
The green coat on old copper weighs more.
Yet something slips through it--
looks around,
sets out in the new direction, for other lands.
Not into exile, not into hope. Simply changed.
As a sandy track-rut changes when called a Silk Road:
it cannot be after turned back from.

~Jane Hirshfield

Comments

[Steph Creaturo]

Welcome back! The virtual yoga studio is just a bit shinier and prettier and of course, much smarter with you in it. Lots o' love from Bklyn, S.

[yoga schools]

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