thoughts for the day from Headspace

Honey Hunters

The work of Eric ValliFound here

Her Ghost Friend

Her Goast Friend "放課後のシソーラス"MV from saigo no shudan on Vimeo.

I can't find words to describe this...just watch : ) Found via The Fox is Black.

Litho perfection!
image from oldchum

The King Rides By

If time had a place,
And space for your past.

Like a little novel,
I wanted to read again and again,
Would I be in your novel,
Would I begin and end in it.

If I had a place,
And space for your little boy eyes,
Could you really believe,
I certainly dare you,
I do not want to scare you,
Anymore.

Oh what a fuss when the king rides by,
Oh what a fuss when the king rides,
Straight through my heart,
Straight through my life.

I need your love more than you'd ever know.
If I kissed and touched your hand,
A million things I will never understand, 

Oh what a fuss when the king trades in,
Oh what a fuss when the king trades.
Oh love, my love, for someone else's hand,
Needing love more than you'll ever know.

You don't miss your water,
You don't miss your water,
'till your well is gone.

-- Cat Power, The King Rides By

The smile on this lovely ladies face makes it! take note.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

--i ♥ Pema Chodron

Thank you internets! I want one...

from the lovely otherwordly

from otherwordly

Mu Pan

How brilliant are these!?
Pages from Mu Pan's sketch book via booooooom

image by Sarah Hermans

Another thing i wanted to tell you....

I loved this story from Chan Marshall in Another Magazine this quarter...

"I was in Morocco recently, in this place called Skoura, near Ouarzazate, which is the big capital for trade. You know, carpets and shit. They are all sitting in my closet because i thought my life would be different when i got back. A lot of the carpets have this stitching, these hand made symbols: mountains, water, family, images and shapes to represent day-to-day things.

A recurring theme is this particular stitching, sometimes all the way around the carpet and sometime here or there. And the dude was telling me, it basically means: today a good day, tomorrow a bad day, the next day a good day. It's just life. It's to be expected. The only way to live is the way you think you should. You need to not be shitty just beacuse life is shitty. You have to say that if five fingers are cut off, you've still got another five."

Sage advice!

(image from here)

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Deer beds

Katherine Wolkoff followed deer trails in Block Island to photograph deer beds. Apparently, deer press down the vegetation to make a sleeping place where predators won't see them. They never use the same bed twice, but the imprints can last for a few days. The Original images are 40x50 inches, almost life size. I think they are quiet beautiful...i want one on my wall.

image by Alexandra Valenti

"While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world’s greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecation, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are."

-- Pema Chodron

Sarah Hermans

Photographs and relief prints by Sarah Hermans

Recommended listen

I LOVE Cat Power and her new album SUN is puuuurrrrrffffeeecct stretching music.

The Guardian has a free album stream here if you fancy a listen. Enjoy!

Now that's what i call balance!
if only it were true...

See more of Daniel Firman's balancing elephant here

Negative Space

via misha-and-puff

Spirit Moves

Mesmerising!
found via rebeccaketchum

Jan Von Holleben

Jan Von Holleben's The Snowbed is one of the best books on my shelf.

“Everything has rhythm, everything dances” 

- Maya Angelou

Recommended listen

A Gentle yoga CD by Nadia Narain.
"A 20 minute practice for anyone, anytime, using yoga movement, meditation + breathing to relieve the stresses of daily life."

I bought this practice CD via iTunes this weekend and its lovely. I highly recommend!

PEACE!

from here

Pose of the week

 

Malasana (Garland Pose)

A re-post...because  this pose is important!
Squatting is a fundamental movement that everyone, regardless of yoga practice and barring injury, needs to get right. We all have the intrinsic physical tools to squat the right way, and, as Mark Sisson so eloquently puts it... "if it weren’t for those pesky creature comforts of civilization (chairs, toilets, heeled shoes, Smith machines) softening us up and messing with our joint mobility, Grandma might be darning you a sweater from the Grok squat pose instead of the rocking chair."

Malasana is, i think, one of the most important stretches for the body and the beauty is it's about letting go and allowing gravity to do the work.

Practice Here's a 'how to' guide. I would advise using blocks or a folded/rolled mat under the heels if they don't comfortably come to the ground. It can also be a nice pose to do in partners to help you with that sense of surrender and spreading weight evenly over the feet.

Sequencing Good poses to prepare include Baddha Konasana, Upavistha Konasana and Virasana. Follow with Uttanasana and Adho Mukha Svanasana.

Benefits Stretches the ankles, lower legs, hips, groins and back torso and can help prevent compression on the tailbone, the sacrum and lower back.

Cautions  Low back or knee injuries.