HipKneeFootHumm3Apr24@JaniceWilliamsonYoga

This hour of Yin Yoga and joint mobility movements will help our hips, knees, feet, toes, hands, fingers, etc. As well we explore some spinal mobility movements. You will need a belt or strap or scarf. Intermittently throughout the class we perform pranayama, a breath practice, called “Bee Breath.” The class is organized around excerpts from a poem by Mary Oliver called “Hum Hum”…
Mary Oliver “Hum Hum” in A Thousand Mornings (2012)
One summer afternoon I hearda looming, mysterious humhigh in the air; then came something
like a small planet flying past-something
not at all interested in me but on its ownway somewhere, all anointed with excitement:bees, swarming,
not to be held back.
Nothing could hold them back.
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3. SAID THE MOTHERYou are going to grow upand in order for that to happenI am going to have to grow oldand then I will die, and the blame will be yours.
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5. I think there ought to be a little music here:hum, hum.
6.The resurrection of the morning.The mystery of the night.The hummingbird’s wings.The excitement of thunder.The rainbow in the waterfall.Wild mustard, that rough blaze of the fields.
The mockingbird, replaying the songs of his neighbors.The bluebird with its unambitious warblesimple yet sufficient.
The shining fish. The beak of the crow.The new colt who came to me and leanedagainst the fencethat I might put my hands upon his warm bodyand know no fear.
Also the words of poetsa hundred or hundreds of years dead- their words that would not be held back.
7.Oh the house of denial has thick wallsand very small windowsand whoever lives there, little by little,will turn to stone.
In those years I did everything I could do and I did it in the dark-I mean, without understanding.
I ran away.I ran away again.Then, again, I ran away.
They were awfully little, those bees,and maybe frightened,yet unstoppably they flew on, somewhere,to live their life.
Hum, hum, hum.