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Greetings!
Summer and lightness are around the corner. Just a few weeks away and we hit the summer solstice. The longest day of light in the year. I think we as North Westerners value and appreciation this season above and beyond most places.
Reminds me of a sweet summery poem by Mary Oliver:
The Sunflowers
Come with me into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks, their day spines creak like ship masts,
Their green leaves, so heavy and many,
fill all day with the sticky sugars of the sun.
Come with me to visit the sunflowers, they are shy but want to be friends; They have wonderful stories of when they were young---
the important weather, the wandering crows.
Don't be afraid to ask them questions!
Their bright faces, which follow the sun, will listen,
and all those rows of seeds---
each one a new life!---
hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands in a crowd of many, like a separate universe, is lonely, the long work of turning their lives into a celebration is not easy.
Come and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves, the course roots in the earth so uprightly burning.
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Enjoy this months Newsletter. The summer season has us bringing breathing and meditation to a deeper focus at the studio. I hope as you enjoy the celebrations outside you welcome also the deep explorations inside your own inner landscape.
Be well, enjoy the sunflowers and keep shining your own light,
Melonie Nielsen
Vancouver Yoga Center
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