Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Morning Yoga at Duluth Running Company

Kyle Elden, RYT

Starting March14th-June13 (14 weeks)
ONLY $100 (less than $7.25 per class)
Must pre-register – call or go to Duluth Running Co.
218-728-1148 – 1026 E. Superior St., Duluth

Wednesday mornings, 6:15-7:05 (50minute class)

Bring your own mat!

The class will be a Hatha/Vinyasa style, will incorporate tennis ball for fascia release & focus on abdominal strengthening. Great for all people; however, will concentrate on common muscles runners/cyclists utilize.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me at k_elden@yahoo.com or 341-6115!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I Love My Friends

By: Rumi

I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case…
Heart might stop. Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets.

Let Nothing Upset You

By: Saint Teresa of Avila

Let nothing upset you.
Let nothing frighten you.
Everything is changing;
God alone is changeless.
Patience attains the goal.
Who has God lacks nothing;
God alone fills every need.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Taste of Forgiveness

By: Kyle Elden

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“It is easy to forgive, until you have something to forgive” ~ CS Lewis


When people are careless

When sweat and tears are wet on your face & body
from carrying the heavy weight of hurt

When you have dark marks on your sacred heart
from reckless hands

When your eyes are marred by dirt and dust
of another’s stumbling walk

When it seems it will never end

When the pain closes in, pulls you under
in this body of water, this undercurrent

When thrashing in the depths, at the bottom
you taste death’s dismal wine

When you come up, break surface

When you take deep breath and know
you are alive

When your eyes open and the world is bright,
the sun greets you, spreads warmth, wraps around you

When you have been lifted, called into the arms of
the Beloved, you know Love

When you sit at love’s feast it is sweet ripe red & purple berries,
juice of forgiveness bursting in your mouth

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Mornings at Blackwater

By: Mary Oliver (from “Red Bird: Poems”)

For years, every morning, I drank
from Blackwater Pond.
It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt,
the feet of ducks.

And always it assuaged me
from the dry bowl of the very far past.

What I want to say is
that the past is the past,
and the present is what your life is,
and you are capable
of choosing what that will be,
darling citizen.

So come to the pond,
or the river of your imagination,
or the harbor of your longing,

and put your lips to the world.
And live
your life.