Denise Porter Kemp Yoga

01/30/2023

10/06/2022

Balancing on top of the world.

10/03/2022

Butternut Squash and Feral Apple Soup
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I miss growing my own food, fresh vegetables from the garden are hard to beet!
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I loved witnessing trellising winter and summer squash grow from golden edible flowers into radiant fruits hanging off the vine and then transforming them into creamy soups from late summer into wintertime.
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Yet not currently tending a garden leaves me more time to explore and discover other fall favorites…like rewilded feral apples from abandoned orchards and trees along winding backroads that have been left to grow on their own.
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The apples may be small, oddly shaped and inconsistent yet many taste amazing and carry the potent vital energy of a wild plant that grows and fends for itself. I like to feel that they impart this stamina and vitality to me too when I respectfully gather and eat them.
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You don’t have to use wilded apples for this soup, store bought and orchard picked will still do. And you may want to bake a few extra to eat on their own, maybe with a little coconut mana or cashew butter melted into the core.
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Enjoy
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1 butternut squash, cut and seeds removed.
Apples to your liking: it can be easier to core first to remove the seeds
Can of coconut milk
Grated ginger and garlic
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Roast apples and squash with the cut side down; squash will take longer than the apples. I generally remove the skin for texture but both ways are good.
Cover grated garlic and ginger with hot water for about five minutes and then purée with butternut squash, apples and coconut milk.
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Add hot water to desired consistency.
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Reheat to combine and eat.
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Spice as you like with salt, ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin, coriander, allspice, star anise, etc…. go light at first, you can always add more.

09/26/2022

It is the first full day of Rosh Hashanah and Navaratri and right in the middle of Mabon, three spiritual traditions that honor the transformation of Autumn at the time of the new moon closest to the equinox.
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I often become aware of these high holidays right as they are happening and like to incorporate awareness of this seasonal change and how others have honored it through time into my own contemplations and practice.
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Maybe you do too, so I share with you in case it helps you remember and develop your own ways of recognizing and facilitating transformation in your own life.
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On this day I am consciously becoming willing to see and let go of the things that are blocking me, especially the things I think I want, are helping and that I want to hold onto yet are not actually serving. May this open me to possibilities that holding on to what is not, or what is passing, is blocking me from accessing.
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If you would like to bring this as a sankalpa, or underlying intention to your practice, a way I often word it/allow it to crystallize into a form that I can work with is to ask myself and higher intuition:
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What am I becoming willing to grow? What am I becoming willing to let go of?
What beliefs and actions am I holding onto that are impeding the transformation potentiating inside of me at this current time?
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Sometimes the things we think we don’t want to let go of are the exact things that are keeping us from everything else.
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I am interested in your thoughts, contemplations and practices if you’d like to share here or in a private message.
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Shanah Tovah!
Namaste
Blessed be
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08/07/2022

As I sit I am reminded that I am a progressively transforming crystallization of all things, past, present and future, manifesting uniquely as me at the intersection of each consecutive moment of now.

I become immersed in the atmosphere that contains absolutely everything without having to think about any particular one.

There is an underlying sense of being at peace in that all is integrated in my awareness, that I am not fighting that any aspect exists.

This facilitates a reorientation that inspires me to once again begin again and work from where I am with how things currently are.

07/14/2022

My morning meditation told me:
Meet what is without expectation and decide how you chose to respond.

05/04/2022

As I wander through the mountains I am often astonished when I round a corner and encounter an entirely new to me yet ancient landscape that until that moment I had not known existed from the vantage point of what I have experienced so far.

Which reminds me that there is always a much bigger picture than what we can see from the limits of our own current perspective.

03/19/2022

There is still snow on the ground yet the quickening has begun.

What dreams of winter are you manifesting into spring?

01/15/2022

So much space between each snowflake as they fall with soft grace to kiss and be reabsorbed back into the earth. There is no rush about this at all.

01/12/2022

✨play ✨

~body geometry, pure consciousness~

12/15/2021

Stillness and Movement Meditation Practice Mentoring

Online and limited in person sessions in Vail Valley, Colorado

Assistance and accountability in developing and maintaining personal presence practices that suit the uniqueness of your life experience.

One time or recurring as works for you.

Contact me for more information.

05/25/2021

Those of you who practice postural yoga/asana or movement meditations, I am curious about your practice.

Do you like classes or practice on your own? Do you generally like to practice with others or by yourself? Do you enjoy online or prefer in person? Are you more disciplined or spontaneous? Do you do a practice you’ve learned and/or does it arise in you? What does your practice do for you and why do you do it? Why do you have these preferences?

If you’d like to share or discuss you’re welcome to respond here or in a message, and even if you don’t want to respond maybe these questions are interesting to ponder on your own.

Thank you!