Pumpkin Wheat Honey Muffins

There was weekend muffinage

I'm glad to report they were quite delicious. Recipe here.

the sacred space

I'm beginning to recognize the value of ritual in creating a space for yoga. I've always had an aversion to routine, thinking it somehow stripped me of spontaneity or individuality to do the same thing, the same way over and over again. Now in the process of trying to carve out a home practice, a very difficult thing for me to do, I'm finding a new purpose to mindful ritual - habitually creating a space to commune with the self in silence.

Something about beginning the OM and end with the OM marks the space and time as apart from all other times of day, as if to say now I make the time to feel life from inside my body not just react to external stimuli. The process of radiating out instead of absorbing in.

Today it feels good to make that space and to bow in reverence to what lies within.