A loose collection of images that feel connected to my yoga offering

February 29, 2024
I grew up and lived in Bolinas, and for much of my early life as a teenager, and through to my early 30s, coming here at sunset was a naturally occurring ritual. I didn’t realize it at the time but now see how places like this have all the elements represented strongly. There is a limitless quality.
For various reasons (cptsd,…whatever🤷🏻‍♀️) the town I grew up in has evoked in me a feeling of claustrophobia, fight or flight, oppressive heaviness, etc…for the last decade plus.
So I walked here the other day with my good friend who knows me and cares about me to the extent that we can talk about anything, and we can also be quiet without having to ask for that outwardly. Presence, with no agenda.
(Truly grateful for this friendship🙏).
Near the shore where the creek meets the ocean on this day, I sat and rested my awareness into direct sensorial experience and somehow my body followed through. I could feel muscles that I didn’t know I was tensing flutter into ease. It’s like as my conceptual awareness rested with nature, my actual awareness which is my body did as well.
An incredibly gentle and real recalibration.
I thought I would share this along with the sunset image💛