The Thought Divine from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.

Yoga with Chris Evans

My teacher, Ruth White, was asked to be on the Chris Evans morning show on BB2 Radio 2 this week...looks like he gave the postures a good go...

You can hear Ruth on iPlayer here (it's at the 2hrs, 10min mark). Its very funny!
My favorite quote from Chris Evans...
'i do believe photographs were taken during that item, i will pay good money for them not to be posted anywhere." hehe...

Allow

There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightening bolt,
containing a tornado. Dam a stream, and it will create a new
channel. Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.
Allow, and grace will carry
you to higher ground. The only
safety lies in letting it all in-
the wild with the weak; fear,
fantasies, failures and success.
when loss rips off the doors of
the heart, or sadness veils your
vision with despair, practice
becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your
known way of being, the whole
world is revealed to your new eyes

 - Danna Faulds

Pearl Primus

"The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit. It turns the body to liquid steel. It makes it vibrate like a guitar. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life."
 --Pearl Primus

Such power and grace! Pearl Primus was a stunner.

1. Bowl with central fish motif Date: 13th century. Iran, Kashan
2. Dish depicting a Wedding Procession Date: first quarter 13th century. Iran, Kashan

From The Met Museum Collections

images from known-stranger and visualplayground

From here

Art details

1. Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy: (detail) Portrait of a Woman Aged 34 Years. 1634.
3.  Maddalena Penitente, 1809, Canova
2. Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Young Man (detail), ca. 1613-15
4.  Madone de Vysehrad, italian medieval style in Prague. Detail du brocart.
5. Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Portrait of Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck (detail), ca. 1639
6. Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Henrietta Maria (detail), ca. 1635

All from  art details via evencleveland

MARGIELA x H&M

YES PLEASE! looks like i'll be standing in line...

“Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.” 

―- Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November

Inspiration!

Images by Mari Valen Høihjelle
Her work always makes me smile.

Recommended Read

Intelligent Yoga: Re-educating Mind and Body by Peter Blackaby

Having been to a brilliant workshop with Chloe Fremantle and Peter Blackaby a little while ago I knew this would be a must read when I saw it and it really is! 

This book is a thoughtful, interesting and thoroughly researched interpretation of Yoga with a focus on the enquiry you should be having with your body and your practice. 

I read a review on Amazon since buying the book that described it perfectly, so i'm going to borrow... 'Blackaby has unpicked movement without fracturing it and teaches intelligent practice in the context of the known, the surmised and the lived, suggesting an approach to yoga that is rational, disciplined and fulsomely human and humane.'

Go read : )

Summer Mann

Summer Mann via Rose Gallery

from here.

John Steinbeck on Falling in Love

New York
November 10, 1958

Dear Thom:

We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.

First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.

Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply — of course it isn’t puppy love.

But I don’t think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it — and that I can tell you.

Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I’m glad you have it.

We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.

And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Love,

Fa

A 1958 Letter to his eldest son from here  via  youmightfindyourself

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Alaska 1965: In Praise of big Country from here via oldchum

Inuit Tales...

WHEN THE RAVENS COULD SPEAK

ONCE, long ago, there was a time when the ravens could talk.
 But the strange thing about the ravens' speech was that their words had the opposite meaning. When they wanted to thank any one, they used words of abuse, and thus always said the reverse of what they meant.
 But as they were thus so full of lies, there came one day an old man, and by magic means took away their power of speech. And since that time the ravens can do no more than shriek.
 But the ravens' nature has not changed, and to this day they are an ill-tempered, lying, thieving lot.

How to just be by Yumi Sakugawa

Dress from Draw in Light

B.K.S. Iyengar – The Ultimate Freedom Yoga

B.K.S. Iyengar - The Ultimate Freedom Yoga [1976] from Praktijk Ourobouros on Vimeo.

this is a long clip, but i highly recommend watching if you have the time!

artist unknown (Port Harrison), Miki (Whale Cove), Kavik (Rankin Inlet)
The Eskimo Art Collection of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, no date
Found via stoppingoffplace

Kiki Smith: Behold

Kiki Smith has a solo exhibition at the Timothy Taylor Gallery from 11th - 17th October. Excited? Me? YESSSSSSS!

October 10

Now constantly there is the sound,
quieter than rain,
of the leaves falling.

Under their loosening bright gold,
the sycamore limbs
bleach whiter.

Now the only flowers are beeweed and aster,
spray of their white and lavender
over the brown leaves.

The calling of a crow sounds
loud—a landmark—now
that the life of summer falls silent,
and the nights grow.

--Wendell Berry

Found via evencleveland

For Emma.
Screen print wallpaper from here

Bizarre but BRILLIANT. nuff said... Found here

From other-wordly

HAHA.
It happens....
found here

Solange!

Solange Knowles knows how to dress. I think i'm a little bit in love with her. blush.