Ruth's Yoga and Poetry Page

27/07/2026

Prepare for the future, but live for now. Acknowledge past patterns with integrity. Attend to present circumstances with courage. Trust the future; it will know how to enable us to fully bloom if we shine our lights toward its oncoming challenges and opportunities from the platform of our current challenges and opportunities.

22/07/2026

This gnome was on a yellow sticker reduction in Tesco, with dozens of other fellow rejects. I am a gnome lover. She looks very content to me, as if she's resting in the light of awareness, but I think she would be this content in landfill too. I will learn from her steadfast composure and realise that I too can rest in the light of awareness in both good times and landfill times.

15/07/2026

Respect is a healing force that is sometimes underestimated. Respectability is concept that many people overrate. 🙏

13/07/2026

Sometimes we find ourselves in a bottleneck of expectations.
We have expectations for ourselves,
We have expectations about others,
Others have expectations of us.
If we surrender all those expectations, we aren't left without direction, instead, we allow ourselves to be open to new posibilities.
I ponder karma and think to myself that it is asking me to do what's possible at this point, whilst expecting nothing to change in this life at this time.

29/06/2026

Yoga encourages us to have presence of mind and suggests that we avoid being absent minded.

15/06/2026

When we're not dependant on anything or anyone, we can sustain a systemic equilibrium which is independent of external influences. Self-care is not selfish. When we are self-fulfilled, we become dependable without feeling depleted. Our yoga practice aims to fully fill our cup with kindness. It isnt easy to fill and keep filling our cup, but yoga shows us there's no need to roll out our mat, because each and every one of us is already fully filled and perfect in our own unique way. We may not feel perfect, but that's OK because we know that, in spite of how we feel, we are.☕️☕️☕️

26/05/2026

Everything takes its time, but nothing lasts forever.

27/04/2026

This week's we're orientating ourselves to and from now via the breath. When we take nothing personally, grace offers us everything we need in any given moment. If any direction feels wrong, don't see it as a bad thing, and do not feel like a loser; instead know all actions (good, bad or indifferent) are opportunities to learn. Each step we take is a step towards the future taken from the past. If we show up and breathe into any current experience, the breath will show us the potholes and reveal places where we're likely to get stuck in the mud. We still have to go down the road we're on, but it might be a smoother ride if we switch on the, non-bedazzling and well considered, beam of breath.

20/04/2026

Each monday I write myself a little prompt about the spiritual themes we might explore whilst adopting yoga inspired shapes and sequences (asana and vinyasa); This week my prompt says...
When vitality and enthusiasm integrate with responsiveness and consideration, it enables action without reactions. Movement equals liberation, and stability enables direction. Negotiate the incoming future from the grace of where you are and know that you are here because of directions you've taken in the past. There's nothing regrettable in accommodating each current experience with discering care that is devoid of condemnatory judgements. With the breath to sharpen our scattered minds, we may move without regret. Graceful patterns of movement are born of slow flow and steady direction.

08/04/2026