Lara Devine

...
We can make our minds
so like still water
that beings gather about us
that they may see,
it may be, their own images,
and live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life
because of our quiet,
our silence.
-William Butler Yeats
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Good morning!! 💜 Have you visited downtown Naperville lately? 🙌🏻 I teach a Vinyasa/Yin Double (9:30 Flow and 10:45 Yin/Meditation) at on Monday mornings. You will absolutely the treehouse feel in this gorgeous studio. Come for one or both. Just march your cute behind over here.

Sigh. All the feels.
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Yoga. Live music. My Lulu Fam. My Bestie . You!!! 830a Sat 9/9 Downtown Naperville. Who's in?!

Whaaat?! So. Much. FUN. Thank you for publishing my pic . 💜

☀️ Why I Wake Early ☀️

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety-

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light-
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

☀️☀️ This. Beautiful. Day. ☀️☀️

'I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'
- Mary Oliver

Entire body buzzing with gratitude. Day 2 of Therapeutic Gong Training with Crown of Eternity! Cannot wait to begin sharing this with you!!! 🙌🏻

'When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.' -Steve Maraboli

Today i fell in love. In. LOVE. With this beautiful yoga teacher. Jacqueline Danner will be 82 in September. She started practicing yoga when she retired from her Director position at Indiana University (at age 75). Infinitely grateful for a life changing morning with you, sweet Jacqueline. My soul loves your soul.

S E L F C A R E 🌸 Woke up after not much rest. Back of my head felt a bit like I'd been clobbered with a blunt object... The kind of pressure that made it feel like my brain was out-growing it's comfy residence. Dizzy. I found myself ticking through my schedule. Thinking about each location and wondering if there'd be anyone to cover those classes. I watched the familiar answer my puffy brain spit out. "I'll tough it out...." Here's what I'm learning.... Pushing through, seems to be the factory setting on this human device. But in the last few years, there's a teeny tiny gap of awareness. Now, a sliver of space exists, where (sometimes) I'm able to notice and explore what's driving that go-to response. Today, i sat in that space. I plopped down, grabbed a blanket and hung out in that little gap. And then I chose to stay. Right there. All day. And rest. 🌸

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important."
--Iain Thomas