Turiya Yoga + Wellness

11/25/2025

DAY 2 & 3
Early the next morning, our flight to Bocas made the unusual journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic by flying due west. By mid-morning we were reunited with our friends, stocked up on groceries, and taking the first of many water-taxi rides to our house—Casa del Fuego—on nearby Isla Carenero. With no roads on the island, we explored on foot, found a surfboard rental spot, and walked the ~2-mile loop trail around Carenero. Later that afternoon we were out on surfboards learning the “black rock” breaks and doing our best to catch a few rides.

The next day Jay and Holly’s Aspen neighbors, Cecelia and Eric, joined us as the last two members of our group. We gave them hardly any time to set down their luggage before jumping straight into what would become our daily routine: flagging down a water taxi at the end of our dock and heading out to explore this tropical paradise.

11/24/2025

Sharing a long-overdue reunion trip with our Colorado friends, Jay and Holly Dewire…we spent a week on Isla Carenero in Bocas del Toro, Panama, celebrating Jay’s birthday. Christopher Columbus once used this island for cleaning his ships, and it’s easy to imagine that much of what he saw in 1502 still looks remarkably similar today.

11/12/2025

🦋 You did not come here to pay bills and die
nor did you come to build the fortunes
of those destroying the Earth
Imagine instead
that you came to gather precious things
fallen from the pockets of Ancient Ones
as they fled the desert’s march -
each a reminder of something
they pledged never to forget
🐦Things like
how to call birds by name with your whistle
which news to tell the bees
and which to share only with the moon
how to tell a parliament from a conspiracy
a colony from a convocation
Things like
Nature has no race or nation, class or creed
except when humans seek to deceive -
division designed to sever you
from kith and kin and buddha-mind
Things like:
the antidote to oppression
is not freedom but belonging
the opposite of domination is communion
the medicine you need
is always outside your door
and there’s likely a wise woman
two streets away
to show you how to use it
These things were left to help us remember
how each world before has ended
and how each death became a door to new life
and how this world wants to take you in her arms
and make of you a lover
and have you listen to the land
talk to the stream
find meaning in the silence of trees
and wisdom on the singing breeze
Listen awhile to discover
the right season for all the ten thousand things
the ninety-nine names we use for our own divinity
how to share power
so it cannot be captured by the vain and greedy
how to step into the flow of life
and make of the Earth a common treasury for all beings
how to map the stars
learn the lesson of each constellation
and still know there is more in heaven and earth
than any of us were ever meant to know
🌞So fill your pockets as this world dies
knowing some of it will guide you to the next
and some will fall to the ground
in time to be found
by those who’ll bring the world back to life.

🌿Things to remember as this world dies ~ by Chris Taylor. Tony Hadley - photograph. ...and to our ancestors who left clues and reminders🥀

11/08/2025

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Let us fold our hearts gently,
like leaves closing in twilight,
and trust that what rests now
is not lost,
only preparing to rise again
when the light returns.

As the Earth Gathers Herself

The world softens its colors now,
fields dim to gold and gray,
branches reach inward,
and the wind carries fewer songs.

The Earth begins to turn her gaze within,
drawing light and warmth
back to her hidden roots,
to the pulse that beats beneath frost.

So too, we are called to listen,
to gather the scattered pieces of our days,
to rest in the stillness
where our true voice waits.

Not everything must always bloom.
Some things are meant to sleep,
to dream their next beginning
in the velvet dark.

Let us fold our hearts gently,
like leaves closing in twilight,
and trust that what rests now
is not lost,
only preparing to rise again
when the light returns.

✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

11/06/2025

Full moon blessings🙏✨💖

10/26/2025

"It’s so easy to be preoccupied with what’s not working—and there’s plenty not working! That’s not the point. The point is, if you want to transform what’s not working, you have to focus your energy on what is working, or you won’t have the energy to transform it." ~ Larry Ward

www.mindfulvalley.com

10/19/2025

Good morning🙏💖✨

Morning Blessing

May the first light of this day
touch you gently,
reminding you that renewal is possible
in every breath, every step, every thought.

May your heart open
to the quiet beauty that surrounds you,
a bird’s call, a kind glance,
the still strength of your own presence.

Let the colors of life find you today—
the gold of kindness,
the green of hope,
the blue of calm,
and the rose of love.

Walk softly into this day,
for it is new,
and so are you.

✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

10/17/2025

✨💛🌀