#fivethingsfriday

[worksbyahurst]

My first stab at a 5 things Friday segment called CARDBOARD Is NOT a tool. Hoping to get better and more fluid with this segment. There were better tools that I thought of after the fact. Link to new video is in my profile. https://youtu.be/VAp4XfZpTXc . . #cardboardcad #cardboard #fivethingsfriday #worksbyahurst https://www.instagram.com/p/BxR-z5HAACw/?igshid=tu1exfeea57j

[vknopik]

F I V E T H I N G S F R I D A Y ♥️♥️♥️ Five things I'm grateful for this week? 1. Breakfast with friend @daryambowskill ... I'm so grateful for her friendship here in Indy ... and it's all due to a chance meeting at my first @yoga_medicine training in NYC back in 2014! 2. My two very helpful teenage children. 3. The sunrise on my way home from @orangetheory this morning. 4. The opportunity to travel to assist @tiffanycruikshank and @yoga_medicine today! 5. My man @adjustafresh who has my back at all times. Shout out the @megankearney and @kevinkearneyofficial for the inspiration! ♥️ #goldengemini #goldengeminiyoga #fivethingsfriday #gratitude #bethechange https://www.instagram.com/p/BpH-qXOFo_v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h02pawrq1moc

[melindahunt]

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#fivethingsfriday Human questions: 1. What are your rituals of celebration/gratitude? How do you do this with the people interwoven in your experience? Can celebration be a healing? I want to know. 2. For myself: What's the longing? What needs healing? What needs celebrating? Why is this important? What needs to be shared? Who do I need to tell, 'Thank you'? What do I need to tell my self? 3. I'm coming up on 5 years of working for myself, 1/3 of my prior corporate life. 5 years of walking straight on into my daily fears, trying to hold to my own integrity while doing something good and true and useful in the world - this has been harder than I thought it could be. I've fallen on my face a lot. I have doubted myself in almost every way while learning my body's sense of what calling feels like. I've kept walking. I would love to pat myself on the back for this, and there are things I struggle to give myself credit for - but I'm not sure that courage is one of them even though my prey-animal self quakes and quivers. Seems like it takes more courage to be a kid and walk into a school these days. Or be a parent. Or brown or black. Or trans. Or a million ors. 4. Which all makes me wonder, is it worth it? Can I do more? And I know my answers. I have asked a million times and I will keep asking even though I’ve always come back to the same place. I can do no better than use the gifts I've been given (& pray I'm not deluded or making excuses). To use my love of learning and love of people and love of the body to do connective, healing work. To build sustainable structures that make space for more of this. To keep trying to open my eyes wider than my privilege would have me see. 5. My friend @debcooperman asks, for journaling during hard times, what's still here? What's still here? What's worth celebrating? I'm turning this back to you now, even as I'm asking myself.

[melindahunt]

#fivethingsfriday 1. Beets & sweet potatoes. Onion, garlic, ginger. Coconut milk, broth, lime. Blended. and cilantro, of course. Kitchen collaborations, off-the-cuff, what-do-we-have alchemy. Making things with people I love is a favorite state. 2. Rain, rain. I realize, I have not been in this house yet, when it has rained like this. And I remember how new this is, what a short time ago it seemed like things would not change even though I knew they would, they always do. Timelines may be short or long, but everything moves, eventually. 3. I lowered every expectation I had of myself today. Best strategy ever for feeling satisfied, getting more done, a measured pace, and connection with others. 4. Things are trying to speed up and I'm not ready. More time for rest and reflection please, my body is clearly not done processing yet. I decided my new year doesn't actually start until next weeks new moon. 💛🌑 At least. 5. Some things I do not have words for. Still. Maybe ever.

[melindahunt]

#fivethingsfriday 1. I forgot it was Friday. Until just now. Even though I did Friday things. 2. It was cold and rainy-snowy-sleety all day and it had that sort of snow day feel - where hours move strangely, and although it was completely ordinary, it felt a little like dream-time. 3. This whole week has had some of that quality. Dreamy. Slow. I feel more settled than I have in a long time and I'm enjoying it. The constant inner voice that fears I'm behind on every task that matters is white noise - a familiar, absorbent hum. There has been plenty accomplished this week, without any rush. It's enough. 4. People are beautiful and full of surprises. Including you. Including me. 5. Today is an anniversary that means a lot to me. It's enough to celebrate, for my own sake as much as anything else. Cheers to vision, to courage, to commitment, to learning what I'm capable of. 💛✨

[melindahunt]

Happy (nearly) full moon, friends. And happy (Five Things) Friday. 1. I believe in the power of these simple words to address a whole lot of heartache: I'm sorry. Thank you. You matter. 2. I believe even if we don't get to hear these words, there can still be healing. 3. I believe community is a practice. 4. I believe love is a practice. 5. I believe we have a responsibility to the things we care about. I believe showing up matters. I don't believe this means we always execute our aims perfectly (see #1 for potentially useful words in this case.) I believe this responsibility includes our own care. I believe holding our values, our why and our how in the forefront helps. I believe being around people who know what matters to us (& knowing what matters to them) is nourishing. Ok, that was more than five. I wasn't sure I had anything to say today, but after a slow ramp up I could probably keep going to 100 in this vein. #fivethingsfriday

[melindahunt]

#fivethingsfriday 1. Things made by hands, by friends, are some of the very best things. (Bowl by @misfitpottery) 2. My teacher said we get to see what our vision is made of when it is shaken. Anything worth making a stand for will be tested - from within and without. Does it hold? (yes, it does.) Side note: we ourselves, are worth standing for. 3. I'm not ignoring the news. 4. What does it take to let go of what’s not working in order to turn toward something else? What happens when we keep turning toward something else and something else keeps not working? Keep turning. Rest when needed and then keep moving toward what's light. The turning matters. 5. There is good in this world. There is good in people. There is abundance in nature, despite what we put her through. These things are worth turning toward, always.

[melindahunt]

Five Things Friday: This has been one of the hardest weeks. And so, blessings. For you if you need them, for me too. 1. May hard things be doorways, to more freedom, more ease, more flourishing, more joy. 2. May emotion flow. May rest come. May hope surface. 3. May we grow ever more appreciative, and ever less afraid of who we are. May we grow ever more responsible to our own hearts, our own unquenchable nature, and to our visions for a better world. We are necessary in our entirety. 4. May we leave no part of ourselves behind (we are necessary in our entirety.) May we remember that connection is everything, and that it starts in our own bodies, simply, attentively, kindly. 5. May we feel each other's love. May we see each other clearly - our unique blend of humanity, virtues and medicine. May we hold each other in this & accountable to this. We are connected. #fivethingsfriday #throwbacktoidaho