the monarch

terri's wisdom during shivasana was really cool today... i won't be able to capture it all. first, a major concept in yoga is that the breath is the spirit. the spirit is what generates our abilities to experience love and bliss.

when we learn to control the breath, we have more connection with the spirit. the diaphragm is the site of our intuition, and the heart is the site of compassion... the stronger our diaphragm, the more intuition we have, and intuition increases compassion... runners probably get a lot of this stuff...

then she was talking about the guidance that we get from the earth, from the universe... she was saying that monarch butterflies have no gps system (though i know a lot of scientists study how birds know how to migrate)... she was saying that the monarchs get guidance from the earth, and after they leave mexico, they are different butterflies than they were before they left on the journey. when they go home, they are changed butterflies.

terri was talking about how our intuition will awaken us to our needs which will lead us home.

she also talked about elephants and the love they have for their families takes them from water and food to water and food. their love guides them...

interesting metaphors she was mixing, that love is equivalent to guidance from the universe, from the earth. that the guidance and the love that we get changes us. and leads us home, wherever that might be, where our needs are met.