Vantage Point
there’s something about the words at night the way they move feels different from here. standing above a table’s frosted glass, a vase of scarlet red roses sit breathing, leaning, in looking-glass...
View ArticleMy first Liebster Award
First, I’d like to start by saying I am extremely humbled and grateful to have received this recognition from a fellow blogger whose work I consider to be strikingly gorgeous and equally profound....
View ArticleMy Liebster Award Nominees Are…
But first, I’ll answer the questions that were asked of me in receiving the Liebster recognition myself…. Model:Hannah Jean Hildreth/Photo: Hannah Cohen Photography 1) Random facts: ~I love Portishead....
View ArticleHard & Soft
Hard & Soft. Dark & Light. The poetic movement of an early January Night. Hannah Cohen Photography The energetic beauty of steel, wind, water, and rusted chain-link. Billowing in the air....
View ArticleA city’s Saturday
My camouflage backpack and I were headed back to the library. The space and I were having a love affair. Or maybe I was in love with what it all was awakening within me. My curiosity was piqued by the...
View ArticlePuja
Pūjā or alternative transliteration Pooja, (Devanagari: पूजा) (Urdu: پوجا) (Sanskrit: reverence, honour, adoration, or worship) is a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various...
View ArticleSalted Air
I had almost forgotten the smell of the sea, the complexity of steel and salted air… Hannah Cohen Photography
View ArticleClinging to Life
hannah cohen photography Were we all just dharma creeps? I didn’t want to be woken up every morning at 5:30 am by the ashram bell herding us to morning sat sang. I didn’t want to stay awake all night...
View ArticleBandhas are for Lovers
Matsya Avatar of Vishnu Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons I remember the first yoga class I was in where it happened, seated on top of my sand colored cork block, trying to separate my mind from my...
View ArticleOn deepening your emotional flexibility.
By G.crombrugg (Photoshop) via Wikimedia Commons “I write because I can’t not write.” ~Laraine Herring, Writing Begins with the Breath And I suppose sometimes we live for the same reason. In the same...
View ArticleAll this talk of Enlightenment
By Anonymous[see page for license], via Wikimedia CommonsIt came to us while lying sideways and alone, in the midst of red flannel, surrounded by thick thought clouds and the stained glass of Sunday...
View ArticlePoetic License
Mural by El Mac via Wikimedia Commons Freedom, liberation, artistic self-expression, free-will, free reign, poetic license, call it what you will. You know the feeling, and no matter what its called,...
View ArticleTragedy, Trauma and Orgasms
Winston Churchill Motivation Poster, 1940 via Wikimedia Commons I’ve always found reading about world wars somewhat remote. Things in text books, stories in newspapers, and scenes on televisions in...
View ArticleAs Is.
Graffiti in der Unterführung am Botanischen Garten in München by Oliver Raupach via Wikimedia Commons I’m riding my bike across the river Rubber tires flowing over graffiti stained concrete Avoiding...
View ArticleHow to Be Alone
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Couple with Chakra overlay by William Vroman via Wikimedia Commons First, you must stop fighting the urge to resist. Rather, let the stillness of sound wash over you,...
View ArticleCatering Nymphs
Goddess Lakshmi via Wikimedia Commons It was the water glass at the tip of the knife, the butter at twelve o’clock above the roll. Catering on a saturated Sunday. The kind where if one didn’t have...
View ArticleJourney
By Sicnag (1966 Ford Thunderbird Convertible Uploaded by OSX) via Wikimedia Commons And as I stood there in that space, deep brown wooden floor under my unpolished bare toes, teaching them all about...
View ArticleI want this music…and mine.
I find myself hard-pressed to disagree with Rumi, we’re blood relatives from the same energetic tribe, like the way the wings of the scapula mirror each other, those back body bones attached to our...
View ArticleGrace, Guts & Spirit
Photo via Tumblr Her hamstrings reached out over the ground, grateful for the cool sensation of an earthen surface. Heels pressing down into the dampness of leaves and fallow land as her back body...
View ArticlePeace, Patience & Svadhyaya
Photo Via Tumblr Her feet reach out above the earth, as if they are finally taking stance after months of shuffling thru. Toes precise and pointing wide, intuitively proud of what they are able to do....
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