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25.01.2022 Something lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Di8NQGkmI

25.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "Theres a voice that rumbles beneath us and after the end the still reaches us Like a bird that cries in hunger or a song that pleads a different future."... Nail Gaiman pic:Sally Riddell

24.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwgmqPzVadM

24.01.2022 Sound Thoughts In the first pages of Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, she described how she became a naturalist after hearing a mouse singing in the wall of her house. I am moved to tears through this thread thinking about anyone saying that a child or an adult cannot sing. Laura Simms... pic: Sally Riddell

24.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKbaKN9Hu_U

24.01.2022 Yoga Walks In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir

24.01.2022 Story Lines "In the mythological calendar, the passage from winter into spring is the perfect time for giving stones back to the earth. The Corn King/Year King/Winter King has died, and will be re-born with the greening of the hills: a virile young consort for the Goddess, his seed ensuring the land's fecundity...until he, too, withers with the dying of the year and emerges again next spring. Terri Windling... pic: Sally Riddell

24.01.2022 Sound Thoughts " It is fascinating to me, as a teacher, to observe when and how chanting may find a place in a students practice." TKV Desikachar "Health, Healing and Beyond"... pic: Sally Riddell

23.01.2022 Meditation Musings When I was a young monk, I wondered why the Buddha kept practicing mindfulness and meditation even after he had already become a Buddha. Now I find the answer is plain enough to see. Happiness is impermanent, like everything else. In order for happiness to be extended and renewed, you have to learn how to feed your happiness. Nothing can survive without food, including happiness; - Thich Nhat Hanh, in No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering.

23.01.2022 Meditation Musings "Every game in life is actually played on a 6-inch ground - the space between your ears. We don't live in bungalows, duplexes or flats. We live in our mind which is an unlimited area. Life is great when things are sorted and uncluttered there." Martina Navratalova... pic: Sally Riddell

23.01.2022 Meditation Musings Those who seek for pearls must be willing to dive to the depths time and time again. Once in the depths things appear differently, and each descent requires an inner adjustment in order to see what is otherwise hidden from view. People expect beautiful things to come in an attractive wrapper, but the soul has it another way. The hidden beauty works its way from inside out and must be sensed within before it can be displayed for all to see." - Michael Mead...e, "Fate and Destiny pic: Sally Riddell

22.01.2022 Sound Thoughts Stop and listen to yourself, how do your words make your heart feel, how does the way you treat yourself make you feel. Brigit Anna McNeill

22.01.2022 Sound Thoughts " To sing is to be alive. It is to convene with the spirit of everything. To be forbidden to sing or to be judged as singing correctly or not, is a travesty of the heart." Laura Simms... pic:Sally Riddell

21.01.2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53853961 This is an encouraging bit of enquiry. Suddenly chanting in a group (smallish and well spaced) feels a whole lot better!

21.01.2022 Yoga Walks "Aunt Leaf Needing one, I invented her - The great-great-aunt dark as hickory... Called Shining-Leaf or Drifting-Cloud Or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear aunt I'd call into the leaves, and she'd rise up, like an old log in a pool. and whisper in a language only the two of us knew the word that meant follow, and we'd travel cheerful as birds out of the dusty town and into the trees where she would change us both into something quicker - two foxes with black feet, two snakes green as ribbons, two shimmering fish - and all day we'd travel. At day's end she'd leave me back at my own door with the rest of my family, who were kind, but solid as wood and rarely wandered. While she, old twist of feathers and birch bark, would walk in circles wide as rain and then float back scattering the rags of twilight on fluttering moth wings; or she'd slouch from the barn like a gray opossum; or she's hang in the milky moonlight burning like a medallion, this bone dream, this friend I had to have, this old woman made out of leaves. Mary Oliver pic: Sally Riddell

21.01.2022 Meditation Musings SOMETIMES Sometimes if you move carefully... through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests, conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away. SOMETIMES In ‘David Whyte : Essentials’ pic: Sally Riddell

20.01.2022 Yoga Walks "For you, brave pilgrim, I hold this lantern at the crossroads. While others are anxious to see you arrive, I praise your vast withstanding of the uncertainty from which all meaning is born." - Toko-pa Turner pic: Sally Riddell

20.01.2022 Yoga Walks This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. John Muir... pic: Sally Riddell

20.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmepH3L7r8

20.01.2022 Story Lines "Sometimes I think were like beautiful vases, we start out whole, and as life progresses we get cracks in our porcelain, our souls, sometimes, through grief, large chunks might be taken out never to return, leaving us less than whole. The Japanese believe the flawed vessel is more beautiful and they mend the cracks with precious materials - gold and silver." Cindy Brandner pic: Sally Riddell

19.01.2022 Meditation Musings To look at a person who is seated on his right, a Western actor would use a direct, linear movement of his neck. But the Chinese actor, and most other Oriental actors, would begin as if he wanted to look in the opposite direction. Suddenly he would change direction and direct his gaze at the chosen person. The Oriental actor always begins an action in the direction opposite to its final objective. According to this principle, if one wants to go to the left, one begins by going to the right and suddenly turns and goes toward the left. If one wants to crouch down one begins by rising up on tip-toe and then crouches down... In Oriental theatre, the straight line doesn’t exist... Eugenio Barba pic: Sally Riddell

19.01.2022 Yoga Walks "Beneath or behind or within everything there is an unfathomable ground -- a suchness, as the Buddhists say -- that one can point to, bow to, contemplate, but cannot grasp. To speak of this ground as a mystery is not to say we know nothing, only that we cannot know everything. The larger the context we envision, the more tentative and partial our knowledge appears, the more humble we are forced to be. Merely think of the earth as a living organism, taking the healt...h of this great body as the gauge of everything we do, and you recognize our ignorance is profound. Scott Russell Sanders pic: Sally Riddell

19.01.2022 Story Lines The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans," writes novelist Ben Okri. "They were, it would seem, as old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled. They wrestled with mysteries and transformed them into myths which coded the world and helped the community to live through one more darkness, with eyes wide open and hearts set alight."

19.01.2022 Story Lines "Stories worth their salt don’t tell us to get cranked up with either naive hope or vinegar-tinged despair. Stories tell us to keep attending to the grace. Keep an eye on the miraculous. It is not for us to blow the candle out; only the gods can do that."... Martin Shaw pic: Sally Riddell

19.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdBuDg7mrT8

19.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WknicA3cf0

18.01.2022 Sound Thoughts Your strength, your tenderness and hope is listening, is feeling words. And over time, with each word, each sentence, each spell you cast into your heart, you weaken or strengthen yourself from the very centre." Brigit Anna McNeil... pic: Sally Riddell

18.01.2022 Meditation Musings "We are all navigating an external world but only through the prism of our own minds, our own subjective experience The majesty of the universe is only ever conjured up in the mind." Jana Levin from Brainpickings (Maria Popov)... pic: Sally Riddell

17.01.2022 Sound Thoughts I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir pic: Sally Riddell

16.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Dh5QoXv2c

16.01.2022 Meditation Musings "Slow and down are modes of the soul; they are connective modes, ways of keeping connected to oneself and to ones environment. Slowing downwards refers to more than simply moving slowly, it means growing down towards the roots of ones being. Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways. There is a shift to the vertical down that re-turns us to root memories, root metaphors, and timeless things that shape our lives from within. Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in ones life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul." - Michael Meade

16.01.2022 Hey, hey, Im doing the yoga day at the Ashram this month. Come along and join me. Im really looking forward to this.

16.01.2022 Meditation Musings "The key to performing well in life is the ability to control the quality and quantity of your "internal dialogue" Performance is potential minus internal interference. Live in peace not in pieces." Martina Navratalova pic: Sally Riddell

13.01.2022 Story Lines She who cannot be contained. She who knows no end. She who holds all things.... Behold that which is new and ever-changing. Behold that which is ancient and unyielding. Behold that which is meant for you and that which is meant from you. Behold the tapestry of life being woven before you. Receive her kiss. Feel her embrace. And walk in peace and prayer. Molly Remer, pic: Sally Riddell

13.01.2022 Be inspired to create IN WHICH THE MONSTER TALKS TO HIS ISLAND This morning on the tide-stripped shore ... I saw puffed, bird-cacked, rank the ocean’s shit, a sheep: cracked ribs, half-tanned, shrinking skin, gull-sucked sockets, and that stink. I limped past. Sea spit. I limped. Should a monster think? Gone, all gone, long gone, monsters of cloth and gold, soft-booted marvels that danced and laughed and lightly left to? I watched their brittle ship sail full-mantled on a wizard’s wind. I waved, Bye now! But they sailed brightly on and I was alone on this my island where once the voices sang such music as would pause even the restless, midnight-racing fox or gold-eyed, hook-beaked bird that hangs upon the air, then down drops on what warm thing may rush from bush to shrub to moonlit hill to rock. Such music I have heard as would cause even these burn-blood beasts to still, and stop. But not. Not since he and she and all that company stepped foot by foot from shore to ship and shiftless left me shifting here sovereign of nothing but a husk. Can a monster think? I think a monster cannot think. I think a monster is a thing that shuffles without think where the girl body, bone, flesh and, yes, soft, light stink and sudden gasp of fear yes fear yes gasp yes, yes fear where she the light-breathed thing is always the prize and he is always denied her. Dr Verity Laughton https://www.ruby9yoga.com.au//take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side/ [ Runner Up Bruce Dawe Prize 2014]

13.01.2022 I'm really looking forward to presenting an Introduction the Vedic Chant at the Ashram in Beaconsfield starting this month. There is only space for 10 people - please join me. Bookings through the Ashram

13.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.facebook.com/prova.teatre/videos/625124261750000

12.01.2022 Yoga Walks "If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for." Ram Dass ... pic: Sally Riddell

12.01.2022 Story Lines Meanwhile, in this blink of existence bookended by nothingness, we busy ourselves with survival and with searching for beauty, for truth, for assurance between the bookends. The feeling of that search is what we call meaning; the people who light our torches to help us see better, who transmit our discoveries from one consciousness to another, are what we call artists. Artists are also the ones who help reconcile us to the fragility that comes with our creaturely... nature and strews our search with so much suffering. Suffering biological and psychological, in private and en masse has always accompanied our species, as it has every species. But we alone have coped by transmuting our suffering into beauty, by making symphonies and paintings and poems out of our fragility beauty that does not justify the suffering, but does make it more bearable, does help the sufferers next to us and after us, in space and in time, suffer less, in ways the originating consciousness can never quantify in the receiving, never estimate their reach across the sweep of centuries and sufferings. Maria Popov "Brainpickings" pic: Sally Riddell

12.01.2022 For overs of stories and of Indian mythology

12.01.2022 Yoga Walks Earth teach me stillness as the grasses are stilled with light. Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory.... Earth teach me humility as blossoms are humble with beginning. Earth teach me caring as the mother who secures her young. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me limitation as the ant which crawls on the ground. Earth teach me freedom as the eagle which soars in the sky. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me to remember kindness as dry fields weep with rain. Cloe Goodchild See more

12.01.2022 Story Lines Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are,... Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. BY JOHN DONNE pic: Sally Riddell

11.01.2022 Something lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GO4Vv0GbMg How cool is this. What a great Covid 19 lockdown project from the WAAPA music students

11.01.2022 Yoga Walks "The speed of the universe is surprisingly fast. The uproar of Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight is no comparison to nature At a place where yesterday I thought the snow was three to four feet high, a type of flower that I had never seen before is already smiling today. Even the sky deepens its blue color every day, adding infinite thoughts to the morning sunlight." Chiura Obarta pic: Sally Riddell

11.01.2022 Aaaahhhh, it is all yoga is it not! And if chant is a vocalised form of breath, is it not also true that, as Leith McPherson explains, the vocalised breath in the form of chant opens the door to transformation https://www.facebook.com/watch/

11.01.2022 Yoga Walks "Many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life.They know others, they know places, they know skills, they know their work, but tragically they do not know themselves at all. Ageing can be a lovely time of ripening when you actually meet yourself, indeed maybe for the first time." Jonh O'Donohue pic:Sally Riddell

10.01.2022 Yoga Walks As we apprentice ourselves to the way of nature, we begin to understand that all of life is in a continuous cycle of giving and receiving. It is the honouring of this cycle that makes us feel at home in ourselves and in relation to the rest of nature. In order to experience true belonging, we must not only acknowledge the gifts we are receiving, but also give our beauty away, no matter how it may be received by others." Excerpt from Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner (

10.01.2022 Meditation Musings "In Bali, the making of the canang sari offerings is done individually but its effect is a collective efflorescence. Canang means a basket of flowers, while sari means essence. Jay Griffiths (from Terri Windling’s blog)... pic: Sally Riddell

10.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "Give yourself time to make a prayer that will become the prayer of your soul. Listen to the voices of longing in your soul. Listen to your hungers. Give attention to the unexpected that lives around the rim of your life. Listen to your memory and to the inrush of your future, to the voices of those near you and those you have lost. Out of all of that attention to your soul, make a prayer that is big enough for your wild soul, yet tender enough for your shy and... awkward vulnerability; that has enough healing to gain the ointment of divine forgiveness for your wounds; enough truth and vigour to challenge your blindness and complacency; enough graciousness and vision to mirror your immortal beauty. Write a prayer that is worthy of the destiny to which you have been called. JOHN O'DONOHUE Excerpt from his book, Eternal Echoes pic: Sally Riddell

10.01.2022 Story Lines "The marks of wildness are a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown." Robert Bly... pic: Sally Riddell

10.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "Your inner voice, the one you have learnt to speak, is one of the main food sources for your growth. Let that food be good nourishment, let it be like wild medicine weeds rather than poison." Brigit Anna McNeil pic: Sally Riddell

09.01.2022 Story Lines Its part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality. Like any currency of value, the human imagination is a coin with two inseparable sides. It is our faculty of fancy that fills the disquieting gaps of the unknown with the tranquilizing certitudes of myth and superstition, that points to magic and witchcraft when common sense and reason fail to unveil causality. But that selfsame faculty is also what leads us to rise above accepted facts, above the limits of the possible established by custom and convention, and reach for new summits of previously unimagined truth. Which way the coin flips depends on the degree of courage, determined by some incalculable combination of nature, culture, and character. Ray Bradbury from "Brainpickings blog - Maria Popov"

08.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "Come inside. I am here. I am always here. I have never left you and I never will.... Trust yourself and listen. You are looking for answers outside yourself, but they are all inside. Nicola- Jane le Breton pic: Sally Riddell

08.01.2022 Meditation Musings Originality then becomes the practice of unhindering whats already there. This work is essential to belonging because your creative offering is like a holy signal to those who carry a similar vibratory signature. In hearing or seeing what youve created, they will find a sense of belonging with you and, by being found, so will you." Excerpt from Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by... Toko-pa Turner pic: Sally Riddell

07.01.2022 Sound Thoughts To share Chanting is to share an experience of silence through listening, a process of healing, and a link with nature, the deeper self and the divine." TKV Desikachar... pic: Sally Riddell

07.01.2022 Sound Thoughts ""To whom are you singing?" he asked. "I am singing and dancing with the moon." Colin Turnbull "The Forest People" pic: Sally Riddell

07.01.2022 Story Lines "These days to tell a beautiful tale is a radical act, both graceful and libellous, it pushes your nature out and into things. Prussian blue paint and synagogue doors and the wise whorls on the fingers of the old woman who lives in the furthest cottage. It makes us deeper." Jaya Penelope

07.01.2022 Thnks Nrithya, happy Divalli

07.01.2022 Yoga Walks I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir... pic: Sally Riddell

06.01.2022 Sound Thoughts Inside of all the stories that we tell is a song that can barely be heard, but exists. I have come to feel that it is the heart of my work, to uncover the song inside the story that renders it alive in the way that the roots of trees speak to other trees when they are in danger or being just being." Laura Simms... pic: Sally Riddell

06.01.2022 Hey, hey, I'm doing the yoga day at the Ashram this month. Come along and join me. I'm really looking forward to this.

05.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "Your strength, your tenderness and hope is listening, is feeling words. And over time, with each word, each sentence, each spell you cast into your heart, you weaken or strengthen yourself from the very centre. Anna Brigid McNeil... pic: Sally Riddell

05.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "There's a voice that rumbles beneath us and after the end the still reaches us Like a bird that cries in hunger or a song that pleads a different future."... Nail Gaiman pic:Sally Riddell

05.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

05.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "When chanting there is a linking with the wisdom of the mantras. When I chanted with my father, I was bound to him and his teachings in a unique fashion, just as in his chanting he was once again linked to his own teacher - and so it stretches back through many centuries of teachers and students, the unbroken lineage of parampara." T.K.V. Desikachar "Health, Healing and Beyond" pic:Sally Riddell

04.01.2022 Yoga Walks "The earth laughs in flowers." Ralph Waldo Emerson pic: Sally Riddell

04.01.2022 Im really looking forward to presenting an Introduction the Vedic Chant at the Ashram in Beaconsfield starting this month. There is only space for 10 people - please join me. Bookings through the Ashram

03.01.2022 Something Lovely for a Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bSz3jkMyTo

03.01.2022 Story Lines "Aboriginal Creation myths tell of the legendary totemic being who wandered over the continent in the Dreamtime, singing out the name of everything that crossed their path birds, animals, plants, rocks, waterholes and so singing the world into existence. Bruce Chatwin in Songlines pic: Sally Riddell

02.01.2022 Sound Thoughts "There is a conversation thread on a list serve about being told that one does not have a good voice, or can not sing. Here is what I wrote in response: "It is everyone's right and capacity to sing. Where did the idea that there is a right way to sing, or one way to sing, come into our disturbed existence? To sing is to be alive. It is to convene with the spirit of everything. To be forbidden to sing or to be judged as singing correctly or not, is a travesty o...f the heart." Laura Simms pic: Sally Riddell

02.01.2022 Story Lines "Sometimes I think we're like beautiful vases, we start out whole, and as life progresses we get cracks in our porcelain, our souls, sometimes, through grief, large chunks might be taken out never to return, leaving us less than whole. The Japanese believe the flawed vessel is more beautiful and they mend the cracks with precious materials - gold and silver." Cindy Brandner pic: Sally Riddell

01.01.2022 Meditation Musings "'Slow' and 'down' are modes of the soul; they are connective modes, ways of keeping connected to oneself and to ones environment. 'Slowing downwards' refers to more than simply moving slowly, it means growing down towards the roots of ones being. Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways. There is a shift to the vertical down that re-turns us to root memories, root metaphors, and timeless things that shape our lives from within. Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in ones life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul." - Michael Meade

01.01.2022 Yoga Walks "He sat for long hours among the cypress trees of Tuscany. And never had any trees seemed so much like ghosts, like soft, strange, pregnant presences. He lay and watched tall cypresses breathing and communicating, faintly moving and as it were walking in the small wind. And his soul seemed to leave him and to go far away, far back, perhaps, to where life was all different and time passed otherwise than time passes now." DH Lawerence Thanks to Maria Popov's excellen...t blog "Brainpickings" pic: Sally Riddell

01.01.2022 Story Lines "The business of stories is not enchantment The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up."... Martin Shaw pic: Sally Riddell