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25.01.2022 Listen to your Divine Discontent Unhappiness is to your life as pain is to your body. It’s sent as a messenger to tell you that what you’re doing is wrong for you. There’s something that you need to get into or out of. Very often, you’ll suffer from what has been called divine discontent. You’ll have a deep inner sense that something isn’t as it should be, and you’ll often feel like a fish on a hook, wriggling and squirming emotionally to get free. And that is a efficaci...ous thing. Divine discontent always comes before a constructive life change. If you were perfectly satisfied, you would never take any action to hedge up your circumstances. Only when you’re dissatisfied for some reason do you have the inner motivation to engage in the outer behaviors that lead you onward and upward. Divine discontent comes when we compare what we are to what we have the power to become. Each of us, if we are honest, feels a gap between where and who we are, and where and who we want to become. We yearn for greater personal capacity. These feelings are God-given and create an urgency to act. This is not an invitation to stay in our comfort zone, nor will it lead us to despair. I have learned that when I wallow in thoughts of my not enoughness, progress is stifled, and I find it much more difficult to feel and follow the Spirit. One way to tell divine discontent apart from the mental counterfeit is that divine discontent will lead you to steadfast, true-hearted action, to follow the promptings to act in faith, and will ultimately lead a person to seat of the Soul. As we walk the path of discipleship, we will receive spiritual nudges to reach out to others. That is the feeling of Divine Discontent and it is the precursor to Desire. Desire is also Divine (the word comes from De-Sire - "of the Father") So when you feel discontented, immediately look to uncover the desire. If you will do the inner work then - and not wait for a crisis to form to make you do it - you can make a smoother transition to your next step in this spiritual journey called: your life. See Comment: Photo @ivanzentner Brother @adriel.zerbinato Sister @gabilopezladeveze My home Argentina

25.01.2022 Frivolity Frivolity is a response when we try to escape. In ancient times people ran away from danger, today they lose themselves in frivolous pursuits. Escapism in mindless pursuits can not only be dangerous to our well-being, it can, more importantly, severely limit the quality of our life we think we are gaining. Being lighthearted and enjoying simple pleasures is very close to our real presence. Escaping into oblivion through substances, social media, and company for t...he sake of company, should warn us that we are trying to suppress, efface or forget. Time squandered by engaging in frivolous purists is a wasted resource. I cannot recapture time lost dallying about in acts of senseless escapism . Perhaps it is too late to transform a self-regarding persona. Perhaps I am incurably addicted to cheap high brought on by a joyride fill with sensory pleasures. Perhaps similar to other junkies I have become hardened to the emotional bummer brought on by the cavalcade of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. How did I become strung-out on jolts of self-pleasure instead of working studiously toward a self-redemptive life ? I always want for want I lack. Life is not a matter of learning to copy with all we must attend to - life is about expressing, our unique presence. Once we run, once we try to block out and forget in order to survive, we are moving, in the mistaken direction. We need laughter in our lives everyday. Laughter is health, rejuvenating and invigorating, but to pursue frivolity to the point of losing our identity is running - not only escaping, but escaping as fast as we can. Just stop and ask yourself wealth you are running from. You will never escape from yourself, for where you run to - you will always be there. Photo @ivanzentner

20.01.2022 A person seeks to quantity their existence either through pain or praise. Do we measure a person’s life by its longevity or by assessing the warmth of its blaze? Do we measure a person by their brainpower or by the heartiness of his or her spine? Do earthly deeds count for more than intellectual opinions? What is more important, the work that a person produces or the quality of life that effuses from their being? Does it matter how long we live and how we die, if we love ...or if we hate, are kind or mean, generous or stingy? Does it matter that we struggle to express personal doubt and toil in an effort to obtain redemption for our personal lapses? Many of us do not decipher who we are and what we truly cherish until we experience the terror of an inconsoleable loss. Failure and suffering lead to self-scrutiny. When all hope is lost, we must concentrate upon absorbing the mind-bending blow. By earnestly gathering depleted reserves needed to pull ourselves out of the state, we can resume our self-proclaimed journey to construct a meaningful life. Alternatively, we can give up and self-destruct by giving into the temptation to slaken and commence sliding in the other direction. Which self-styled path we forge after after experiencing an emotional churning depends on a person’s will to live, ability to accept new circumstances, and resolution to let go of bitterness. If a dejected person institutes a regressive or progressive course of action depends upon the character of the self, an image forged in hot coals of our cumulative personal experience. We can only control how we live and how we respond to life-defining moments that quicken our dwindling life force. . . . Photo @ivanzentner Sister @aluna.muluk

18.01.2022 Every person desires to mine the richness and satisfaction from all aspects of life and cultivate a reciprocating relationship with the natural world. How does a person develop social reciprocity, respond to both positive and negative events with constructive and progressive action, and generously reward the kindness exhibited by other people? How do I get in touch with nature’s interchanges and steady myself in the midst of my enormous capacity for wanting? When did I first ...go off the rails? How do I reorient myself? What path do I take to reconnect with myself with an instinctive and intuitive self? How do I check hysterical outrage, quite a raving mind, blunt madness, and become a light unto myself? Pondering philosophical questions incites learning, and self-reflection provides meaning to existence. Most of the answers to the essential questions regarding how to live and how to die currently exceed my intellectual grasp and my psychic underpinnings. I must resist insincere answers and exhibit antagonistic scepticism for all doctrines that I previously assumed true. I shall undertake a dynamic vision quest to explore self-doubt, while resisting the cultural pressure of accepting conventional thinking and remain wary of personal prejudices. Einstein said, Everything changes except the way people think about it. And so the problem is, I’m holding on to old image of my body/mind/self in present time that does not exist any more. More to come . . . . Photo @ivanzentner Shala @anahatayogapatagonia #ashtangayoga #ashtanga #ashtangaprimaryseries #ashtangavinyasa #spiritualawakening #spirituality #innerstrength #innerknowing

17.01.2022 Beloved friends the further you go into God the more you have to just LAUGH. Radical acts of self-transformation do not occur spontaneously, meaningful change requires a specific and deliberate act of will. How does a person take inventory of what they presently are how do we go about remaking ourselves if we are dissatisfied with our present lot in life? Should we confer with my cognitive self Should I aim to revise my cognitive make up? For too long, I dragged my bodily s...elf through life with a buoyant sense of self. Lacking a crystalline sense of self-ident partially accounts for an extensive list of addictions. Sunk in a jumbled bed of mental attachments with a fractured sense of self, the truth of life eludes me. And then comes ASHTANGA YOGA. I seek to rise from the fissured depths of a muddle brain, a tortured heart and heal my maniac persona by devising and staking a unifying and wholesome claim regarding who I am. We conspire together - yes we breathe together to bring light to every shadow and every illusion. We breathe together to bring forth the very remembrance of the Creator. Breathe with me as I choose to communicate a meaningful life through Ashtanga Yoga. Communication is the experience where two minds come into union with one idea, one vibration informs both minds and is valued equally by them. The mind is trance-ended, the heart opens and there is a joining at the level of the soul; and union at the depth of the mind which far transcends anything that can be uttered by words or symbols. Wild ones converge to laugh, cry, love and have a fuckin mate On Instagram live-stream @mangalashala : 14 August @ 7pm Argentina 15 August @ 8am Australia (EST) Art with @mezmirazs PoPo

17.01.2022 The whole self is rather like an onion: it includes more than the outer skin of appearance, the body, thoughts, emotions and sensations; the self is more than the ego, more than personality, more even than individuality; it is more, too than the simple sum of all these parts. The self includes the unconscious as well as the conscious mind; the male sex as well as the female; transmitting channel as well as receptive vessel. We can quite accurately think the whole self as a c...ircle - or, more correctly, as a globe or sphere. Forget, for the moment, the human form of flesh, bones and blood; we have to consider the self as an independent entity without a material body to contain. Wholeness is something that we, as fallible creatures, don’t really understand. But we know instinctively, at a very cavernous level, that wholeness is the goal - the direction in which we wish to be heading. As the practice has it’s way with us, peeling back the layers of the onion can be chaotic and confusing. Each layer has it’s place in our every-day lives, both in terms of normal and abnormal functioning .When we are able to penetrate all layers, we gain access to our own greatness, because the layers open the door to our core to who we really are at any moment. The core layer represents our true emotions, our real response to the world at a given instant. Join me for 5 days of practice: peeling back the onion, in terms of how we armour ourselves emotionally, and how we can find the courage to Deconstruct ourselves by entering Impasse before the deadness at our core can be turned back on. Only 3 spots left Art work at the soulful avatar @mezmirazs

17.01.2022 The Art of Attunement For a teacher one of the hardest things to come to terms with is that less is more. It is easy to feel pressured to ‘do’ something to help our student’s suffering. Over the years I have come to appreciate the importance of the skill of attunement and how it is central to a transformative experience. During the first few years of life the ability of a mother to be attuned to the needs of her infant is crucial to their development. This attunement is im...portant to a child’s ability to learn to regulate their nervous system and deal with distressing events. When a mother consistently fails to be attuned different types of insecure attachment result. One could say that a mother’s attunement is the building block to how one learns to be connected to others, build relationships, and feel safe in the world. This skill of attunement in teaching has similar effects. A definition of attunement ‘is a kinesthetic and emotional sensing of others knowing their rhythm, affect and experience by metaphorically being in their skin, and going beyond empathy to create a two-person experience of unbroken feeling connectedness by providing a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response’. (Erksine 1998). One could say it is our ability to be present to, and with, another’s expression of their experience. I view attunement as the meta skill of teaching which might have subheadings, such as; empathy, immediacy, receptivity, active listening, presence, experience and knowledge, and cognitive understanding. Any of these skills on their own is not attunement, but at times come into ‘tuning into’ our students and sometimes work in tandem as we grapple with understanding and connecting to them. The ability to be attuned really comes down to how equated to our students we are in the moment to moment process of teaching, and how successfully we can communicate that to them. Our responses and interventions are then a result of this attunement. . . . . . . . Photo @ivanzentner See more

15.01.2022 For the love of the body The body does not adhere to thou shall not(s). The body cannot understand this kind of morality, it will have not truck with the Man-made Commandments, and it cannot be fooled by words in the way the mind can. The body is the guardian of truth, our truth, because it carries our experience of a lifetime and ensures that we can live with the truth of our organism. When the body cries the soul is weeping, the child-spirt is trapped. Each illness is a ...story, and only the individual can tell that story. With the aid of physical symptoms it forces us to engage cognitively with this truth so that we can communicate with the child within, the child who lives on inside us, the child who has once spurned, abused and humiliated. True healing must go deep and take time to be permanent. The soul will always find ways to manifest its hurts, regardless of what is cured. Your sincere applications to experience wholeness throughout your being will strengthen your spirit and help you find the lost parts of your soul (child-spirit). Photo @ivanzentner

15.01.2022 What is projection? Projection occurs when there has first been denial within yourself. Projection is an act in which you psychically try to throw out of your ownership everything that you have judged as being despicable or unworthy of you, something you don't want. And so you will project it.. You will throw it up and out, and let it land on whomever happens to be near by. Projection is the effect of the denial. It is the denial of the Truth that nothing you experience has... been caused by anything outside of you. Projection then, is the attempt to insist that reality is other than the way God made it. That you are not powerful, that you are a victim of circumstances, that you're in a world that can actually do things to you and make you, cause you to make decisions that you wouldn't have made otherwise. That is always denial... And it is a lie. When you project onto another, you will then believe that your anger, your hatred is justified. So, projection is an act of trying to get rid of what you don't want to own within. It is the effect of the denial of Truth. Projection colors your brother or sister with the very energies that you would judge within yourself. And yet, if you would have these things be different, it must begin with you. For the way to heal the world is not by seeking to change what is on the outside, but by first changing what is on the inside. For when that change has occurred, you will become a conduit for an energy that knows how to use your gifts, to place you in just the right situations. And a great power will work effectively through you - the Power, alone. How, then, to begin to break the pattern of projection? How, then, to allow the bridge of forgiveness to be built? It is actually quite simple, but it will require your commitment. Next post Photo @ivanzentner Sister @pao.marchi Brother @germanpgarro Home @anahatayogapatagonia

14.01.2022 Do what doesn’t come naturally - in the middle of psychic chaos! To be settled in ones life you must use your ability to think logically. Obviously! But the thinking I’m interested here is used to counter intuition. For there are times, often at pivotal points in our lives, when it is vital that Logic over rules intuition. While intuition willingly falls in line most of the time, sometimes it does not and when Intuition takes a stand it can be a powerful and counter-product...ive force. During these right v. left brain conflicts we vigilantly need to orient our inner worlds for acting counter intuitively leaves scars on your psyche. Your intuitive Self mostly falls in line with logic. But logic likes to pigeonhole, label and ultimately control your thoughts, your life. Your intuitive self acts a foil to logic with a its freewheeling, unreasonable and possibly illogical thinking. Logic tries to dominate intuition. Intuition is the one half of our consciousness we neglect. Logic also tries to dominate emotions. But they’re not so easily subdued. It cannot order, plan or control emotions because your logical self doesn’t produce emotions. Nor does your intuitive self. Your two conscious selves Left and Right, simply catch awareness of emotions as they erupt and/or descend into the underworld. It is form of drip torture. For the battle in my psyche is not fought daily or hourly. It is fought minute by each conscious minute. Teaching: When the relationship between the Logical and Intuitive self sours it acts like monkey grip locking two players into the same pattern of behaviour for ever pulling on each other, forward and back, forward and back. Emotions fuel the struggle. Only logic can find a new game plan. For to push is the only way to pull yourself out of a monkey grip. Sister heart @gimezapatero Photo @ivanzentner Shala @anahatayogapatagonia My heart Argentina

13.01.2022 Shadow - Influence Great is the shadow that stretches over time.. Not for its authority, rather authenticity. At one with the brightness, but not of it at all porous edges blend the whole In Silence - fall. This verse from a poem refers to the shadows of men and women in our history who have influenced and still influence our everyday lives. We all cast a shadow and we cast as a shadow at all times. Conditioning has led us to believer, that something, unpalatable and da...ngerous lurks in our shadows. Shadows have come to represent the dark side of the our nature. In eastern thought the Yin/Yang symbol highlights both the light and the dark. The bright side Yang is the forthright, male nature and Yin, the darkness, represents the receptive, inner, female nature. To be in balance we require both. Notice there is no goodness or evil suggested. The outward shadow we physcially see is in essence, the reflection of our inner presence. At times it is the edge of your shadow and you will find it fuzzy and porous, it melts into the brightness and this is how it should be. Our shadow merges and blends with our brightness, thus becoming one and the same - a whole. Great men and women of the past saw this and spoke from a position of wholeness. They spoke with authenticity because they balanced themselves. Their shadow become eternal. Their influence remains. ... Brother @germanpgarro Photo @ivanzentner Shala @anahatayogapatagonia . . . . . See more

12.01.2022 Listening The Chinese ideograms for hearing and the moon both bear the same shape. These forms in calligraphy often appear as a broad-topped A with several crossbars similar to a ladder. Maybe we have to climb the staircase of awareness in order to be receptive like the moon hear with accuracy to ultimately master the art of listening. Listening is moving into a position of total receptivity and is passive. There is no distracting thought patterns - no judgement...s and there is no anticipation of how we will respond. In this state our awareness focuses on what is happening and what is being said. We become removed from our own scenario and this gives us the freedom to merge into the moment. We begin to attend to with what is rather than what we assume/presume or perceive to be true from our perspective. Listening is relaxed. Listening is acceptance. Listening is similar to a cup - very useful when it is empty, unable to be used when it is full. Photo @ivanzentner

11.01.2022 An irreplaceable role in a GREAT ADVENTURE - I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far - I will find you. Nathaniel to Cora in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Twenty years ago, uptown on the GOLD COAST night club strip you abducted me and captured my heart. Thirteen years today I choose to be your WILD WIFE. Gone astray and absent I had forgotten how to fight, how to feel and how to be real. Your unqualified acceptance of my frailties and unrelenting bel...ief in me revived something fierce in my heart - an adventure to share; a yearning to know the spirit and a beauty to unveil. Adventure - with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of every man and woman. The musculine heart of my Shane needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, zip locked, franchised, on-line, or microwaveable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul to be wild. Descending ever more deeply into the heart of GOD! I don’t want to be the adventure, I want to be caught up in something greater than myself. Led by the spirit, Shane leads me into adventure! Beauty - All his wildness and all his fierceness are inseparable from his romantic heart. For Shane this isn’t about dresses, make-up and masks. For he recognises that a woman yearns to be seen, and to be thought of as captivating. A beauty that is worth pursing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we a truly are. I want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt, beauty that affects others; a beauty of my own to unveil. Shane’s spirit evokes this beauty in me. Shane, thankyou for never strangling my heart by telling me to be tough, efficient and independent, even though I can be when I choose!

11.01.2022 This is an bewildering spiritual path that we are walking as human beings and as humanity. For anyone who desires to live a fulfilling life, they must come to a point of accepting that they are the reality they seek. In the process of doing that, there is a new experience to be embraced and there is an old experience to be released into the past. That old experience may include trying to be good enough, trying to be spiritual, or trying to do the right things. If a person nev...er tries to do the right thing, or never tries to be virtuous, they may never come to the point of letting go of those attempts to own their divine nature. But there is a point when we have to stop serving the Divine and be it. And if we keep trying, that experience will never come. There comes a time when trying, even spiritual trying, is no longer a virtuewhen it keeps us separate from embracing the reality of our Being and from embodying that reality in our living. We can never be good enough by trying. We were made good enough. We are made divine. It is in accepting that reality as the truth of ourselves that we know the experience firsthand. The act of breaking free of that imprisonment and claiming one’s divinity is a critical juncture on the spiritual path. It can be a stepping-stone to freedom and the fulfillment of one’s destiny as a human being. It can also be a stepping-off place that derails that process, leading nowhere. It can be a claiming of perfection that is a substitute for a real experience of the sacredness of Being. Because the truth is that we have consciousness at many levels. And no level is more or less godly than another. All the processes of becoming are part of God. Stop the condemnation of others and stay attuned to pulse of the spirit. Photo @ivanzentner Sister @nirvanayogamariavera Shala @anahatayogapatagonia

11.01.2022 The randomness of it All! To experience some relief you may need to accept the randomness of fate. I’m not suggesting that life is pre-determined, but simply that life is fragile. It is held delicately in our grip and consequently, it can be easily seized, and snatched from us. The randomness of fate has announced itself loudly in the world the last few years and we in the secular West struggle to deal with the callous indifference of fate to our very existence. We can only ...explain life statically. It’s random we say. You come into existence through a random even (REALLY) when one strand of DNA entwined with another. Your fate, alas, may be equally random but we try to control it, this randomness. We try to make life safe with limited degrees of success. I have to face this desperate need and stare it down. I cannot keep my family in a bubble wrap. I cannot control my fate or theirs. Nor can I vet their decisions. I must live with this face: Accept that life is a game of chance. I have tried to tell myself this and the chaos just spins me into addiction. The problem with this thinking about your own mortality is that it incites a battle between the conscious thought and unconscious drives. One one hand your mammal brain is primed to fight for your survival. On the other you are conscious of your inevitable demise. When you contemplate death, in any form, you prod your emotional brain to generate Threat-Threat-Threat response, which in turns demands that your conscious mind becomes aware of being threatened. And around it goes. The have found the Don’t-worry-Be-Happy jolly-hockey sticks approach to life of little comfort. Now I have the insights into my my mortal state. Embrace today, do not blight the present with the imagined woes of some future pestilence. Moreover, in life, we can improve the odds, but we cannot control this randomness of fate that dogs our days. It is a reality of life. Your fate is unknown. Each step your take leads to this mysterious destination. But the unknown adds awakens the heat of chilli to the many fragrant spices of life. Enjoy Photo @ivanzentner Shala @anahatayogapatagonia

10.01.2022 A student recently asked Is there any way a person can prepare for his/her mission?" If you are on the spiritual trajectory, this happens naturally. Trials, demands and training are what lead you to your mission and facilitate in your preparation. The severity of your trials and training depends on the nature of your mission, as you require certain qualities or soul characteristics to realise and execute it. All vexations and training involves compressing the ego, because y...ou cannot prime your spirit if you are ruled by your ego. You need to be aware and understand what you are being trained for. Analyse, dissect and resolve the difficult situations you are experiencing and determine the weakness that tips you off-balance and edges you into apathy. Ask yourself what prevents you from being enthusiastic and working your way out of that situation. That is your weakness, and that is the area of the spirit that needs attention. That is the lesson you need to learn. Therefore, that is where you will be wounded and tested. I believe there is one major area in which each and every human being Earth is tested. The TEST OF FAITH - your greatest test. Refers to your belief in The Creator. Even though you cannot see God, do you have the humility and courage to believe? To experience the presence of the Greater. To pass the test of faith, you have to choose the subconscious mind (the soul sound) over the physical mind. Your weaknesses will muffle this soul sound. Your weaknesses are your temptations. Keep in mind that your weaknesses will be tested. I am not referring to physical things like, sex, drugs, food, alcohol, money and so on, which if used negligently can dliute your spiritual sensations. Here I am taking about the temptations of the TWISTED HEART : pride, doubt, anger, revenge, jealousy, envy, resentment, self-pity, power, fear, guile, wrath. Your damaging soul characteristics, that is, anything that diverts you from the diamond path. You will continually be marshalled in those areas to make you aware of your psychic fractures. See remaining in Comments Photo @ivanzentner @anahatayogapatagonia @yoga.atman

09.01.2022 Ashtanga Yoga is like sticking a spark plug up your anal canal. It blows out all the disowned parts of your self. Hosted by @taylorhuntyoga as part of the Heartbreak Kids Podcast, join me on for a fierce and fervent convo on bringthe disenfranchised aspects of our psyche into compassion contact with ourselves within the practice of Ashtanga Yoga. It’s always standing right behind us, just out of view. In any direct light, we cast a shadow. The shadow is a psychological te...rm for everything we can’t see in ourselves. When we split off a part of our experience and project it outside, the disowned aspect of ourselves often leads to a distorted perception of reality, in particular the misperception of other people. Nearly everyone understands this phenomenon: it’s what we mean when we say, Oh, stop it, you’re just projecting. Splitting also enfeebles the self. Instead of hiding the persona of yourself that you don’t want others to see, why not keep the shadow in plain sight, bring it to the light. Make friends with the hidden; after all, those aspects are not going to go away or not be seen because we think the secrets are hidden because they are not always protected. This shadow has friends too and, these friends will knock on your door, and you will come out to play sooner than later. The shadow AKA the EGO houses the parts of us that we don’t want to share or the parts of ourselves we deny, but the truth of it all, the shadow WILL NOT BE DENIEDThe denied self wants to come out and play, wants to be seen and loves a good game of Hide and Seek and will always have a player to bring the shadow out in each of us. The disown parts of ourselves show up in our relationships. If you want to know who you are, look at your tribe to see yourself. Bringing the deepest parts of ourselves to the light is the way to heal. There is so much profound beauty, grace, and wisdom that lives in the dark self of our being that needs to be addressed. Our shadow holds a deep and most profound secret to healing and self-acceptance; The lottery of self-discovery. If we are willing and ready to take ownership. READY is the keyword. See more

07.01.2022 Spiritual remembrance that HEALS I am also guilty of forgetting often. Every time I allow fear to lead me into irrational thinking, I’ve forgotten. Every time I hold the approval of others higher than the approval of God, I’ve forgotten. Every time I try to muscle my own way to the top, I’ve forgotten. I forget what God’s voice sounds like, my discernment tanks and I feel like I’m underground in an avalanche without the awareness of which way is up or down. When I forget, I ...give the enemy room to feed me lies. It isn’t until I remember again that I can find my way back to the Father. Remembrance is a meditation that awakens us to an everlasting reality. Remembrance brings us into a spiritual life. Maintaining a focus on what really matters most in our lives actually serves to expand our view of the world and our role in it. Through remembrance, we learn to better understand the conflicts that arise in our lives, to distinguish between the endless pairs of opposites that appear, to make wiser choices, and to carry out our actions in service to others. Remembrance leads us to spiritual transformation. At the heart of most spiritual practice, what is left when we move beyond form and language, is simply remembering. Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die, and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live, and that you will return to where you came from. Remembrance is a meditation that creates gratitude, gratefulness, and strength of faith; and these qualities are necessary for spiritual transformation. The mystic traditions all exist to help us remember what we forgot about our own true origin and destiny. This helps us remember our own spiritual essence and potential, and that we will experience similar motifs of joy and sorrow, crisis and victory, and light and shadow in our lives, too. The soul’s greatest challenge, not surprisingly, is with the physical body it is connected to on its journey through this world. See COMMENTS Photo @ivanzentner

06.01.2022 Using What God Gave You Since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvellously functioning parts in Christ’s body, let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be Romans 12:5 (Msg) The Creator deserves your best. ... He/She/It shaped you for a purpose, and expects you to make the most of what you have been given. He/She/It doesn’t want you to worry about our covet abilities you don’t have. Instead the Creator wants you to be focus and sharpen your talents, virtues and attributes. When you attempt to serve the Creator in ways you’re not shaped to serve, it feels forced, contracted, wrinkled and dwindled. It’s frustrating and produces limited results. It also dissipates your energies, your brilliance and your time. The best used of your life is to serve the Creator out of your shape. To do this you must discover your shape, learn to accept your shape and enjoy it, and then develop it to its fullest potential. Your shape was sovereignly determined by the Creator for his/her/its purpose, hence you shouldn’t resent it or reject it. Instead of trying to reshape yourself like someone else, you might wish to celebrate the shape the Creator has given you. Part of accepting your share is recognising your limitations. We all have defined rolls. Your shape determines your speciality. You will find that people who do not understand your shape will criticise you and try to get you to conform to what they think you should be doing. FUCK’EM ! Ignore them! Avoid comparisons, resist exaggerations, and seek only the Creator’s commendation. We are to fertilise our gifts and abilities, keep our hearts aflame, augment our character and ready ourselves for eternal responsibilities and rewards. If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticises me. John Bunyan Art @aluna.muluk Inspired by @ivanzentner

05.01.2022 I think I am just a frustrated Evangelical preacher who wears cotton elastane leggings every GODdam Day! Over the years I have come to see that the only thing more tragic than the things that have happened to me is what I have done with them. Words were said, painful words. Things were done, awful things, reprehensible things! And they shaped us. Something inside shifted. We embraced the messages of our wounds. We accepted the twisted view of ourselves. And from that we c...hose a way of relating to the world. Our relatedness is who we are! We made a vow to never be in that place again. We adopted strategies to protect ourselves from ever being scratched and maltreated again. A woman who is living out of a broken, lacerated heart is a woman who is living a self-protective spiritless life. She may not be aware of it, but the truth will be known. It’s our benumbed way of trying to save ourselves. I developed ways of trying to get something of the love my heart mourned for. The ache is there. My desperate need for love and affirmation, my thirst for some taste of romance, an adventure and the indwelling beauty of the feminine. I turned to boys, or drugs or food or gang-aster movies; I lost myself in work, study or some sort of service to humanity. All this adds up to the women we are today. Much of what we call our personalities is actually a mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something for the love we were create for. The problem is our plan has nothing to do with God! Where shall you find the right understanding of God? You will find the right knowledge only within yourself. Start from where you happen to be, and advance from that point by whatever means are available to you. Relax back INSIDE! Photo Phantastica @ivanzentner

03.01.2022 The state of Grace - Grace cannot be captured, studied or understood. It is the substantial difference with which we deliver ourselves, interact with others, and relate to the Infinite. Victory without grace is a result gained through manipulation; it’s the shout of joy with no sound; it lost in mediocrity. Without grace, you can temporarily win over someone, but you inevitably lose against yourself. If you are in a state of grace, however you are moved by a pure and fea...rless intent, you have nothing to gain and nothing to lose. We must not confuse being graceful with not being resolved, sharp as a knife, explosive, provocative, and even manipulative. Everything is allowed in a state of grace, but our actions must never be reactive. In a state of grace, we exist without needs and constraints of the ego. Guided by a neutral stream of consciousness and not by subconscious patters, mental intrigues, and hidden agendas, we draw on those memories that, consistent with the situation, are uplifting and elevating. The actor in a state of grace doesn’t seek approval of the public or satisfaction through the performance. She is lost in a creative flow and becomes magnetic and truer in reality. The yogi does not get distracted trying to give a name to what is happening to her; she neither resists or judges his experience: she is simply who she is and where she is. Who is willing, at least for a moment, to lean on the brink of fear of not existing in order to exist completely? The one who accomplishes this will be enraptured in grace. Photo @ivanzentner Sister @paula_blousson Sister @aluna.muluk

03.01.2022 I’m not old! I am just established! Me Ageing in a Peter Pan Culture. To be content you must value the full breadth of your life. Every minute counts. But we in the West seem to think youth is the essence of life. We are youth obsessed. The Old Fart and Old Tart, with the re-upholstered face that look like a mummified cat stand for nothing. I want to show that every breath in life counts. It defines our existence. If life is a passage, we are very dismissive about the l...ater part of this transit. A part of the problem is that we see old age as a loss, an ending and, indeed, it does herald some limitation. But what if we viewed life as a spiritual odyssey involving different stages? Then old age could be the beginning and if so, what is it the beginning? Some in our Western Culture have tried to emphasise the spiritual nature of ageing. Jung described the process as individuation. Becoming the fully formed individual. Maslow claimed the highest need we can fulfil is self-realisation. Addressing all aspects of the self. Yet we try to stay a warrior all of our lives. Misery awaits anyone denying life its journey. You can re-upholster your face all you want, but when you are 70 the heart beating in your chest and the veins carrying your lifeblood are still 70 years. You may look even look a different age. But you cannot be young. Yet still we fight it. We fight ageing. And in so doing we fail to see what age has to offer. So what does age offer? Acceptance. You stop trying to be a warrior. Like Sherpa Tenzing you do not set out to conquer Everest but to befriend it. You befriend the mountain. You befriend life. You kiss goodby to angst. There is not point in constantly turning the pages of fiction. Your life story as written in memories is the life you lived all its grand gestures and multiple stumbings. Worrying less about pleasing others because you have to, no more burden of duty. Life has its will. We must at some point relinquish youth, holding on to the reins is exhausting, but we can still appreciate the vitality, angst and passion of the youth around us. See COMMENTS Photo @ivanzentner Wild woman @aluna.muluk See more

03.01.2022 The spirituality of family I have been home with my family for two weeks after 12 months apart. In years past, I would come home and disassociate from my family’s unique relational dynamics through hours of asana practice, constantly judging their distinctive ways of farming, cooking, cleaning, eating and parenting. This time around things have changed. I have witnessed the spirituality of family. Once we get a taste of the freedom that comes with letting go of our s...tuff anger, righteousness, jealousy, our need to be in control, the judging mind, just to name a few we start to look at those things in new ways. You just spiritualize your life. Which made me think of this story There were two stone masons, each doing the same job. The first, a melancholy man, was asked what he was doing. I lay stones, he replied, looking sullen. Every day, stones and mortar. No difference from one day to the next. I lay stones, I get paid. His was a dreary life. His colleague was asked the same question. His eyes brightened as he carried the next stone and laid it upon the others he’d laid. I’m building a cathedral! he exclaimed. The difference between living a spirituality of family and going through the tedious motions of work and parenting is a vision of the big picture, the cathedral-building. To the extent that I can see the cleaning up, the doing chores, the driving children around, the to-do lists, the time for family and in-laws, and so on, as the stones in a cathedral, it is easy to have a spirituality of family life. The early Jesuits saw themselves as contemplatives in action. Their work in the world was to help souls. Parents and spouses are similarly invited to be contemplatives in action, rooting themselves ever deeper in the life of spirit so that they might bear fruit in the joys and struggles of family life. Each family is a domestic church, a small example of a place where two or three are gathered in spirit to manifest God’s presence. We too can see our daily work as helping soulsthose of our immediate and extended families. See reminder in COMMENTS Foto @ivanzentner