by Sherri Koehler | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog Posts, Practice
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. –Mary Oliver Once again, Valentine’s Day is here and if you’re...
by Sherri Koehler | Feb 7, 2017 | Blog Posts, Yoga Philosophy
I am struck at the instruction to live as a light to others that occurs across so many traditions of spirituality. It is such a powerful command and one I come back to again and again. I was especially reminded of it this past Sunday, listening to the readings at...
by Sherri Koehler | Feb 6, 2017 | Poetry
The Buddha’s Last Instruction by Mary Oliver “Make of yourself a light” said the Buddha, before he died. I think of this every morning as the east begins to tear off its many clouds of darkness, to send up the first signal—a white fan streaked with pink and violet,...
by Sherri Koehler | Sep 8, 2016 | Poetry
This Morning by Mary Oliver This morning the redbirds’ eggs have hatched and already the chicks are chirping for food. They don’t know where it’s coming from, they just keep shouting, “More! More!” As to anything else, they haven’t had a single thought. Their eyes...
by Sherri Koehler | Jul 1, 2016 | Poetry
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back...
