Pattiann Rogers – Jan 27, Level II & I

Movement and the body’s connect to the mind and spirit is at the heart of Yoga Philosophy. Make this path a little different from other world traditions.

and motion in philosophy

We say we move miles across desert

ice and black volcanic sand, down

numbers of leagues into the night

of oceans and caves. Marking

units and distances, we say we move

an hour among damp spring grasses,

two days along canyon roads

and creek beds, country lakeside

borders. This is the way we move,

because we pronounce this to be

the way of our moving.

But maybe in truth we pass through

not just miles of forest but a testament

of trees, neither walking nor riding

but moving as sunlight moves in one

steady procedure through underwater

weeds or as music moves

making time and space of the void.

…

All facts of the body, we know,

are composed solely of light

and its speed. Therefore, a traveling

beam of luminous star and a single blood

corpuscle of radiance in the heart must be,

in myth and song, one and the same.

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