Julie MacAdam

Integration

Integration –Sowing the Seed, Tending to Growth How do you know when the practices you have done, on and off the mat, are transforming your life? Can you see and sense into the subtle and gross effects of the hours spent – in your relationships, in your sense of Self and worth, in the person […]

What is Yoga to You?

What is Yoga to You? When I say the word Yoga, what comes to your mind? Is it turning upside down in a headstand and trying to find balance? Warrior pose? A path of devotion that presents both challenges and victories? Is it study, of the Self and God, and what the difference might be […]

Decisive

Enough, worry and wonder, what is really happening here? Contemplation, a sharpened hook for indecision, aspiration, an angel in disguise, mental acrobatics dressed in costume, larger than life and shrinking, on stilts standing, a balanced point in wanting, what is best, what is right, what is of service to the most high, thoroughly, thoughtfully, tiredly […]

Love requires everything

Why be so afraid of love? Where are the roots of your fear? Can you follow them to the start? Digging to the deepest tendril, What do you find there? Do you know this is all you’ve ever wanted? to be loved and to love, returning limitations five by one, for a free fall into […]

Graduating seedling

I stand within these well acquainted walls, walls that confined my torture, that defined hardships in pillows barely able to quiet screams, damp with tears, closets and drawers kept parts of me well tucked away, clothes that concealed a body full of hate, clothes now in piles, heaps on the floor, too many to count, […]