Daniel Brindley

Yoga Teacher + Club Owner

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ROOT TO RISE.

Yoga teaches me I am equal parts earth-bound human Rooted and grounded. And equal parts soul-soaring spiritual being My home is in the heavens.

by Daniel Brindley

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SURF’S UP.

Things change...constantly. Things change so much that even the way things change changes.

There is a fundamental groundlessness and shakiness to each moment...and each day...and to your whole life itself...cuz you die.

So now what? You go surfing. The change is the wave, the wave is always changing. Acceptance, that's all.

There is comfort in the acceptance.

So now you don't have to fight the changing and shifting and shakiness. You can just surf it instead.

[purplebuddhaproject]

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence.

Anne D. LeClaire (via purplebuddhaproject)

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Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender

Rumi (via talkingoutsoft)

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I wrote a poem.

Do what you Love. What do you Love? Do that. From ice cream sundaes to where your energy goes When you wake up on Mondays. Do what you Love.

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Hi Daniel, You have a pretty grounding and spiritually aligned blog here, of course it is :-) I come to your yoga class and was wondering if u have any advice/resource for sitting meditation. I know you are busy, but I will appreciate your time. Thanks and stay blessed

Thanks! Yes, I have a great resource for you...check out Tara Brach...she'll have everything you need to get going...

http://www.tarabrach.com/

[thecalminside]

Happiness is possible only when you stop running and cherish the present moment and who you are. You don’t need to be someone else; you’re already a wonder of life.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via yeshecholwa)

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Rumi (via universal-wanderer)

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Two buddies after Jude's first yoga class. #notmyson #samehair #cooluncle #coolnephew @downdogyoga @baptisteyoga (at Down Dog Yoga)

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I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

Rumi (via thecalminside)

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This is the person we bow to in others in Namaste. 

This is the person that we should try to see in others when we feel pain or hurt, happiness or love, confusion or fear. 

If we recognized this is everyone around us, how profoundly would it change the way we interacted with them? Probably a lot.

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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via liquid-diamonds-flowing)

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A little light reading on a Saturday morning. @baptisteyoga @downdogyoga #yoga #love #peace #growth #health

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Frederick Buechner is Rocking My World

I stumbled upon some Frederick Buechner on this lazy Sunday Easter afternoon. My mind is blown as much as my heart is stirred. Here are some quotes worth sitting with: 

"You never know what may cause (the tears). The sight of the Atlantic Ocean can do it, or a piece of music, or a face you've never seen before. A pair of somebody's old shoes can do it. ... You can never be sure. But of this you can be sure. Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go next."

“Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business . . . even your own life is not your business. It also is God’s business. Leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought. It can become a life-transforming thought . . . unclench the fists of your spirit and take it easy . . . What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort . . . than being able from time to time to stop that chatter . . . ” 

"The word “God,” at least to me, means a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.” "The Jesus that I follow is the peacemaker. It’s one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich." “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” “Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”