Abundant Reflections

08/18/2026

I think about this quote constantly, mostly because it's hilarious, but also because it's dead on.

When I think about what first drew me to yoga, I immediately remember the second class I ever took and the woman next to me floated from Downward Facing Dog into a beautifully elegant Scorpion Handstand.

I saw that and immediately went, “I WANNA DO THAT!” And so the first 5-6 years of my yoga practice were dedicated to feeding my ego and nailing that beautifully elegant float from Downdog to Scorpion Handstand.

I got there eventually. And it felt amazing for about a week.

Then I wanted the next pose. And the next one after that. There was always some new shape waiting on the other side that I convinced myself would finally make me feel like a "real" yogi.

It took me a long time to realize the pose was never actually the point.

What mattered was who I became chasing this perfect shape. The version of me who learned to fall out without being convinced falling meant I failed.

The version of me who stopped needing every attempt to look pretty in order for it to count.

The version of me who finally understood that showing up shaky and imperfect was the practice, not some lesser version of it.

The poses are just the gateway. What you're actually signing up for is a slow, ongoing lesson in getting out of your own head (or your own ass 😅).

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08/18/2026

It is one great big universe!!
Namaste Y’all

This image looks like static on an old television set. It's actually a photograph of nearly the entire observable universe, packed into a patch of sky smaller than a grain of sand held at arm's length.

This is Hubble's Ultra Deep Field, built by aiming the telescope at one of the darkest, emptiest looking patches of sky astronomers could find, a spot deliberately chosen because it had almost nothing bright in it to get in the way. Hubble stared at that single point for roughly 11 days total, spread across hundreds of orbits, stacking 800 separate exposures on top of each other until faint light that had been traveling for billions of years finally became visible. Imagine leaving a camera shutter open for over a week straight just to catch a whisper of light too faint for any single glance to register.

The "not a star, it's a galaxy" claim mostly holds up, with one small asterisk worth knowing. Nearly everything scattered across this frame really is a galaxy, some containing hundreds of billions of stars each, seen as they looked when the universe was only a few hundred million years old. But astronomers deliberately left in a handful of actual foreground stars from our own galaxy too, and you can spot them by the four pointed spikes of light radiating out from their centers, an optical artifact created by the telescope's own support structure. Everything without those spikes is a galaxy. The rare object with spikes is just one of our own local neighbors, doing something no distant galaxy in this photo can, shining nearby enough to blind the telescope a little.

Which is harder to wrap your head around, the number of galaxies in this one image, or how empty this patch of sky looked before Hubble stared at it?

Source: NASA and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field team, via science dot nasa dot gov

08/03/2026

Namaste Y’all

05/30/2026

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Daily Quote 27th of May 2026

Hard work is not the path to Well-Being. Feeling good is the path to Well-Being. You don’t create through action; you create through vibration. And then, your vibration calls action from you.

Excerpted from Washington, DC on 5/7/05

Our Love,
Esther
(and Abraham and Jerry)

05/21/2026

05/21/2026

Meditating is for everyone!
Namaste Y’all

05/01/2026

Yes!!!
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04/24/2026

Namaste Y’all

You were born perfect. You will die in perfection. Believing you are imperfect represses who you truely are.

04/19/2026

Indeed
Namaste Y’all
💕💕