Vista Yoga

Happy Memorial Day!♥️💙🇺🇸
“Let us remember those who courageousl gave their lives for our freedom.”

Join us for regular classes this Sunday:
8:30am with Fabiana, 10am with Tracy
12noon & 4:30pm with Stacey
and Monday 10am with Shonali

(Monday afternoon & evening classes canceled.)
* Regular schedule classes resume Tuesday, May 26th.

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing;
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.” ~ Matsuo Bashō

After I finished the last week of my 200hr. Prajna training with Tias Little in Santa Fe,
I spent time at the Upaya Zen center meditating with the monks who lived and worked there. One of the monks, named Mamu, offered to do a card reading to give me clarity on a meditation in which I had visualized opening a sacred space for yoga.
After the reading she said “You’re going to bring people together.” The session confirmed my premonition, but didn’t offer much in the way of “when and where.” I was still left with those questions. Mamu, seeing my uncertainty, sweetly wrote on a piece of paper, (which I still have,) “Grass grows by itself.”

This simple phrase by the 17th-century Japanese Haiku master contradicts
our normal way of thinking. We are wired to resolutely “make things happen.”
Bashō’s short aphorism encourages us to let go of striving, for striving for effortlessness can push it further away. Our practice then becomes letting go and just trusting that our grass is growing.💚
In Faith,
Marti Yura

“You must hold the balance by the intelligence of the body, by instinct or the sense of equilibrium and not by strength. When you keep the balance by strength, it is physical action, when you keep it by the intelligence of the body, it is relaxation in action”~ BKS Iyengar

In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, he recommends bringing “Sthira and Sukha” (2.46) a Sanskrit phrase refers to finding balance between steadiness/strength (Sthira) and ease/comfort (Sukha) to yoga postures.
When we find balance between effort and ease, there’s a merging with the infinite.
Photo of Navasana (boat pose) from
Tuesday 12 noon Accessible Yoga.