tools of my trade

my eyes - what they see, what they shift away from

my hands - what comes through them, what they feel

my big, ancient cracked heart which i hold out into the world in all it's wonky glory.

the green all around me- the natural world filling me up, sustaining me

and the courage to know when to pounce and when to lay in the sun and the strength to carry them through into the world

Green

the colour of healing

the colour of deep breaths

the colour of dissolving into the magic of the planet

the colour of transformation

reverb10 Appreciate

my splendid and much loved hill

Author: Victoria Klein
27 Things to Know About Yoga
@victoriaklein

Prompt: Appreciate. What's the one thing you have come to appreciate most in the past year? How do you express gratitude for it?

this year i have continued to appreciate that i live in paradise... i express that by constant gratitude for the green out my window, the birds i can hear, and boring my internet friends silly by going on about it.

the thing i have come to appreciate most is that life requires courage.

That is, if i am to live the life of my dreams i need to risk failure.

i need to be free from the need to be right.

i need listen to my intuition and my heart.

i need to hear my deepest longings as a call from the divine and that all the divine asks from me is to take a big breath

and leap

and i will always land safely (there may be a few bruises and scrapes but i always heal too)

i give thanks for this by being more and more courageous

by being more and more willing to leap

and more and more adept at landing in the middle of wonderful.