{"id":2714,"date":"2016-11-03T23:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2016-11-03T23:01:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T23:01:02","slug":"the-pervading-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/the-pervading-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pervading Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the art\/life trail. For the past three weeks<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em> we\u2019ve been contemplating Being horse, opening space to be connected to our personal horsepower. <\/span><\/h4>\n

Personal horsepower is the natural ability to be instinctive and free. If we observe horse in the wild she will stand long and long gazing and grazing. She may lie down when sensing safety, rolling and kicking her feet to touch the sky. A change in atmosphere and ears turn, ground is pawed. Stamp!! Feet now fly across the prairie… a free and liberated spirit.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Nothing wrong with\u00a0kicking up our heels, really important, yet first we do ourselves a favor to look at\u00a0the calming effect of fall\/winter. One of the most challenging instincts to follow at this time of the Natural Year is the inclination to be still. Yoga is a way in…and Savasana the Death Pose is a beautiful practice to engage…<\/span><\/h4>\n

Savasana is where people are most likely to experience the meaning of yoga, which is their conscious unity with Infinity\u2026 You lie there and look dead, but as you relax and sink into the feeling of the very alive energy that is being you, it literally feels like you come to life again.<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n

Erich Schiffman<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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When we practice for a mere\u00a015 minutes per day we find that time itself begins to slow. And when we see the effects of this small change it might inspire us to add an additional 15 minutes of quiet at the opposite end of the day. A morning quiet and and an evening quiet creates a power that in turns lets us dig deep and find true treasure.<\/span><\/h4>\n

This moon\/month our element is water. Again…we imagine being still. <\/span><\/h4>\n

Still Water<\/span><\/h4>\n

We need to be careful that still water doesn\u2019t become stagnant. We have the chance to observe our stillness and then rise up and move forward to stay in the flow. We can imagine that there is a still point pond deep within our cave. We can sit there and feel into the stillness. When we rise we may notice that there is a quiet stream that flows from the western edge of the pond…starting as a trickle dancing over pebbles and small stones. Placing ourselves into this sheltered cave near still water and meandering along the soft flow of moving water we can reflect.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Here\u2019s what occurred to me as I lay quietly in my womb cave this past week\u2026<\/span><\/h4>\n