December 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
“your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the...”
– Charles Bukowski
June 2011
1 post
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May 2011
2 posts
“I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits...”
– From “The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, by Rainer Maria Rilke
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As within, so without: How our inner world creates...
Cleaning, Re-organizing, Yoga, Meditation, and Cleansing = Radiant Happy Me!
No thats not me in the picture above, but I decided to use this image because it perfectly captures how I feel! Let me tell you why…
April was a month of major cleansing for me. I have done some serious detoxifying on many levels of my being. Out with the old and in with the new! My conclusion from the...
April 2011
2 posts
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Why Anusara Yoga?
In the 10 years that I have been practicing Yoga, and the 4 years that I have been teaching, no experience has been as profoundly life-changing as my discovery of Anusara Yoga in 2008.
It was a sunny summer day in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that I walked into my first Anusara class at Akasha Yoga Studio. My first Anusara Teacher, Neesha Zollinger, spoke a lot about opening to grace, about...
“My life purpose is reaching critical mass for healing, personal and social...”
– @DeepakChopra (via anthrob)
February 2011
6 posts
“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are...”
– Hopi Indian Elder
“You are also mad, quite mad,
To imagine you are not God.
Goddam it,...”
– Robert Graves, “Song: To be less Philosophical - 1927”
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another inspiring artist
isabelle arsenault
Womb Nostalgia - Visual & Performance Art Event
Market Street Gallery is pleased to present Womb Nostalgia, a visual art & performance art exhibition, featuring works by a selected group of talented artists opening March 4, 2011, and running through March 31, 2011. The opening reception is on Saturday, March 5th, 2011 from 7PM-10PM at 1554 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. There is an inherent desire to return to the womb. The womb is a...
Purificatory Dreams
I find myself in a field with a pregnant girl. It’s lightly raining. The water begins to swirl and forms a twister which becomes a tornado. It comes and picks us up, and I am scared. I tell my friend, but really myself, to relax and go with it because tense muscles and resisting will only worsen the impact of dropping back to earth. I think i read about that somewhere..
We hit the ground...
miladyproductions asked: by some miracle i found this today and it picked me up out of my doubts and propelled me, hugged me,dusted me off and sent me back to my true creative faithful self.
and for that, i am eternally grateful.
thank you!!
and for that, i am eternally grateful.
thank you!!
December 2010
1 post
“from Kk… This is the time of the year, when we are saturated in darkness,...”
– Kk Ledford, http://yoga.wildmoonwisdom.com/?page_id=228
November 2010
3 posts
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The Creative is the place where no one...”
– Alan Alda
Just like falling
Punch fear in the face & Go for it!
Over the past few weeks several significant events have transpired in my life. Some being rather painful and difficult, others quite beautiful and auspicious, they have all caused me to step back and think about why I do the things that I do. Why? How do my routine activities indicate what I believe to be my life’s purpose on this planet? Am I moving daily in the direction of my heart’s...
October 2010
2 posts
“DEFINITION: Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding...”
– Rob Brezsny
September 2010
3 posts
a beautiful terror
I am still dreaming
of hanging from cliff edges
I wake with a pang
of cold delicious Fear
this wet and throbbing body
proclaims itself to me
My left eyelid swollen shut
I hear the small dog’s throat rattle
There are many passing voices
outside the tall window shut
And suddenly
I have such clarity
that my skin swims frightened
with aliveness
yoga: why? because!
Yoga for me is not just a physical or spiritual practice limited to a certain square of time in my schedule. It may have begun that way, but now yoga infiltrates every aspect of my life. I have been practicing yoga for 10 years and teaching for 3, but I still consider myself a beginner. It is much more interesting to approach the practice with beginners eyes, and ask “what can I learn...
“I am attracted by the strangeness that surrounds all large cities… In...”
– -Jean-Francois Raffaelli, 1881 De Young Museum Acquires the Absinthe Drinkers
August 2010
14 posts
my very most favorite poem ever
The Summer Day
by Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and...
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4 Artists I currently find inspiring.
Delicious food for your eyeballs.
David Cook
Julianna Swaney
Amanda Blake
Jean Tripier
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Back to REAL_ity(?)
2 weeks ago I went to colombia for a week. It was the first real vacation i’d had in years. Not traveling to see family, not traveling for a training, or for work in some way, but a real honest to god vacation (palm trees, beaches, relaxation and all). But of course a week of adventure, romance, and beauty was not enough. It only wet my palette for all the other places to discover, people to...
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I...”
– John Cusack in Say Anything… (1989) (via smut-to-go) (via timetravelswithoutamachine)
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“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
my Artist Profile on the Revolver Blog →
check out “Artist Profile: Sonya Genel” an interview with me about my art work, art process, and recent show “Twilight of the Kali Yuga” at Revolver (136 Fillmore St. San Francisco, CA.) xoxo
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New Book by My Amazing Cousin Natalie Lyalin
My wonderful, beautiful, talented cousin, Natalie Lyalin is a fantastic writer and has just released her new book of poetry!!
Try a Little Time Travel is a study of careening through time, danger in the woods, and lost children. It explores the theme of safety and uncertainty in everyday things. It could be a meditation on the monsters all around us. It could be a good argument for the creation...
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current art show at Revolver →
“Twilight of the Kali Yuga
” Works on paper by Sonya Genel
& “
Going Over Home” Photographs by Marin McCallen July 20 - August 20, 2010
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Julianna Swaney →
I love this artist.
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The Big Sweet SF: 50 Treats to Eat Before You Die →
Anybody who knows me knows that sugar is my weakness…God help me.
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hmm.
how to begin?
