Accidentally New Age received this voicemail yesterday:
The other day I was hanging out with my dad and I noticed that his aura was a bit off, so I smudged it, and now he’s cleansed.
Come on that’s got to get me in the blog, right? Come on!
Sure, Mike, ANA’s game.
But just so you know, while you were leaving that voicemail, Master Kataka was balancing ANA’s chakras with the didgeradoo x brought back from Australia.
Accidentally New Age is loving the poetry these days. This week she is especially enamored of this verse, from the Mahamudra:
The primordial purity of the mind
Is the nature of space.
There is nothing that anyone
Can receive or reject!
Namaste, kids.
Sianna was reciting poetry to us in class this weekend. Accidentally New Age fell in love with this poem, by Hafiz.
How did the rose
How did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its being,
Otherwise, We all remain
Too frightened.
Last night, Accidentally New Age was returning home from her Anusara Immersion and thinking of the seven energy loops. She started at the bottom — ankle loop — and worked her way up. Shin loop, thigh loop, pelvic loop, kidney loop, shoulder loop. But for the life of her she couldn’t remember the name of the top loop. Chin loop? No, it’s definitely not called chin loop. But she really couldn’t remember.
When ANA got home, she booted up her computer and checked her blog. There was one new comment on her last post and it was from her teacher KK. The comment? Skull loop. The actual name of the top-most loop.
Accidentally New Age doesn’t know what you do with your New Moon intentions, but she usually keeps hers held close; private. But some of them are nice and lighthearted and simple to share.
This moon cycle, for example, ANA is working on her handstands. A daily practice devoted to increasing the amount of time she can stay in them (against the wall), in addition to a daily practice working toward balancing on her own, in the middle of the room.
ANA would like to know some of your New Moon intentions.
Doesn’t it seem like going retrograde is just about the only thing Mercury does?
Accidentally New Age’s yoga teacher KK talks a lot about going slower, being quieter, when Mercury goes retrograde. Doing those things because you know the situation, and maybe that other person, the irrational one who seems to be angry at you for just living, isn’t aware of the planetary forces.
During this retrograde cycle, ANA has been noticing her tendency to blame other people for situations she could very well have approached differently:
As ANA ran down the stairs to catch the train this weekend she got impatient with her neighbor, who was walking slowly up the stairs, talking on his cell phone, and making it impossible to pass.
Was it his slowness that caused her to miss the J Church by fifteen seconds?
Maybe.
But she probably could have left her apartment two minutes earlier.
What is a recurring theme you’ve noticed during retrograde?
ANA: Knock knock.
You: Who’s there?
ANA: Namaste.
You: Namaste who?
ANA: Namaste, motherfuckers!
pause
You: That’s stupid.
ANA: Oh.
This morning, during yoga, AMD’s blanket kept creeping over until its corner was occupying the back corner of Accidentally New Age’s mat.
ANA did what any self-respecting yogini would do: she tapped AMD on the shoulder, pointed to the offending three inches of blanket, and raised her eyebrow.
AMD responded by paying a 10-cent fine.
Sometimes Accidentally New Age’s friends come up with stuff so awesome ANA has to tell all of you about it.
from miss c:
“yesterday another teacher at my studio said ‘and we order burma superstar‘ and i heard ‘and we gave birth to a star.’”
oysauce: how are you dearest ANA?
ANA: i am okay. my week was good, but tiring and filled with menses and headaches. how are you?
oysauce: omg! i JUST noticed MY MOON! is the actual moon big!?
oysauce: i’m checking
oysauce: i don’t see it out there
ANA: it might be new
ANA: it was a tiny sliver this morning
oysauce: i’m glad we can celebrate these things together
ANA: oh, it’s not new until sun or mon
ANA: phew
oysauce: i’m glad we live in sf … i’m not really sure who i know outside of sf who would be stoked to share this info
ANA: i need to set new moon intentions
oysauce: HAhaha
ANA: hee
oysauce: put that on your blog and smoke it
