YoGrooves

04/05/2019

A new album of music designed to create a safe, nurturing and loving atmosphere in which to sooth, unwind, restore and find peace.

04/04/2019

02/23/2019

Lick up all the life you can today! It’s delicious 😋

02/07/2019

Get some sweetness today! Hug a dog! Maybe a friend, too. 🦋

01/15/2019

You know that book "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff?" Yeah, well that's good. But even better... is when you can actually not sweat the crazy hard stuff that of course sometimes happens! It's totally possible. Just breathe, then ask yourself if it ever helped - being stressed or freaking out about something. If you can recall... it didn't actually ever help. 🌟🙏🌟

12/20/2018

THE JOY OF SORROW

It's simple.
When you're sad, just feel sad.
Don't try to be happy. Trying is exhausting.
Don't push your sadness away.
Don't numb it.
Don't try to get over it.
Don't try to transform it.
Don't even try to 'heal' it.

You don't even need to accept it.
Realise that it's already accepted.
There is already enough room for sadness in the hugeness of your being.
You are the sky, the sadness is only passing weather.
You are vast; sadness is temporary.
You are eternal; sadness longs for a home.

It's simple.
When you are sad, just feel sad.

Bow to your sadness.
Honour it.
Let it rest, and move.
And you will know its holiness.

Its aliveness. Its joy.

- Jeff Foster

10/21/2018

Yes!

09/26/2018

GET OVER IT!

Please, friend, do not try to ‘get over’ anything or anyone. You’ll only be splitting off from a part of yourself that needs kind attention.

Don’t attempt to ‘move on’ today from your grief, your sorrow, your confusion, the empty feeling inside. Feel these friends totally, allow these sacred and misunderstood energies to move through you. They are not ‘negative’, they are not ‘bad’, they are not signs of your failure or weakness or brokenness, they are only parts of consciousness, fragments of the whole, that want to be felt deeply. They have come to cleanse and to enliven, not to punish. Stop pushing them away and feel their raw unbridled power as they surge through today.

Healing is not a destination, it is your willingness to love all of yourself, to take all of life – the joy and the sorrow of it – into your vast heart.

To walk with courage into the fire of the Unknown!

- Jeff Foster

09/22/2018

Life is as good as you can believe. Even if you are having a rough day... remember the universe is giving you exactly the challenges that you need for you to thrive and become your best self.

07/30/2018

THE LONGING THAT CALLS YOU HOME

You don't need to go 'beyond' suffering.
Suffering has no interest in 'beyond'.

It needs a lot more heart than that.
(Only the mind dreams of a 'beyond').

Suffering longs for your curiosity. Your kind attention.
Your breath. Your tears and your trembling.

It wants a mother, a father.
It is an orphan.

It wants all of you, not half.
It wants you to come closer. It wants you to enter.

And be curious. And step out of conclusions.
And touch a moment. Touch a moment without bias.

Touch into anger. Touch into sorrow.
Touch into terror. Touch into your
unwillingness to touch into
your suffering.

Touch the untouchable parts.
Not all at once. Not all today.
Just a moment at a time.
A moment. And then, survive it.
And breathe. And a moment.
And, survive it. And breathe.

Even the most painful feelings.
The most profound despair.
The sharpest grief.
The deepest feelings of unworthiness.

The parts that cry, "We are bad".

Survivable. Tolerable.
Bearable. For a moment.
And then, maybe acceptable.
And then, maybe embraceable.
And then, maybe, even loveable.

Not parts of you to destroy.
But parts of you to care for.

Parts longing to be included.
Disowned parts, seeking the Light.
Orphans of the Light.
Refugees for the Light.

You don't need to go 'beyond' suffering.
There is no 'beyond' for the heart.

For the heart is pure Presence.
And the way through suffering
is through suffering,
through and only through.

And the 'beyond' is really the immanent in disguise,
and the sacredness is in the ache itself,
and the transcendent is in
the fu***ng mud and the dirt and the blood.

And you are whole even when you do not feel whole.

And your suffering is your nostalgia,
the powerful longing that calls you home.

- Jeff Foster

07/01/2018

🌟🙏🌟Happy Aloha Friday Loves!

06/13/2018

Truth

05/30/2018

"What you find is that your dreams grow well with love. If you seek anything in this life, look for things that draw you into the greater love."
~Wah
Sacred Patterns - Love Holding Love
❤️💛💚💙💜

08/15/2017

A WALK IN THE RAIN

"As the story goes, I was walking through the rain on a cold Autumn evening in Oxford. The sky was getting dark; I was wrapped up warm in my new coat. And suddenly and without warning, the search for 'something more' apparently fell away, and with it all separation and loneliness.

And with the death of separation, I was everything that arose: I was the darkening sky, I was the middle aged man walking his golden retriever, I was the little old lady hobbling along in her waterproofs. I was the ducks, the swans, the geese, the funny looking bird with the red streak on its forehead. I was the trees in all their autumnal glory, I was the sludge sticking to my feet, I was my body, all of it, arms and legs and torso and face and hands and feet and neck and hair and ge****ls, the whole damn lot. I was the raindrops falling on my head (although it was not my head, I did not own it, but it was undeniably there, and so to call it "my head" is as good as anything). I was the splish-splash of water on the ground, I was the water collecting into puddles, I was the water swelling the pond until it looked fit to burst its banks, I was the trees soaked by water, I was my coat soaked by water, I was the water soaking everything, I was everything being soaked, I was the water soaking itself.

And everything that for so long had seemed so ordinary had suddenly become so extraordinary, and I wondered if, in fact, it hadn't been this way all along: that perhaps for my whole life it had been this way, so utterly alive, so clear, so vibrant. Perhaps in my lifelong quest to reach the spectacular and the dramatic, I had missed the ordinary, and with it, and through it, and in it, the utterly extraordinary.

And the utterly extraordinary on this day was awash with rain, and I was not separate from any of it, that is to say, I was not there at all. As the old Zen master had said upon hearing the sound of the bell ringing, "there was no I, and no bell, just the ringing", so it was on this day: there was no "I" experiencing this clarity, there was only the clarity, only the utterly obvious presenting itself in each and every moment.

Of course, I had no way of knowing any of this at the time. At the time, thought was not there to claim any of this as an “experience”. There was just what was happening, but no way of knowing it. The words came later.

And there was an all-pervading feeling that everything was okay with the world, there was an equanimity and a sense of peace which seemed to underlie everything there was; it was as though everything was simply a manifestation of this peace, as if nothing existed apart from peace, in its infinite guises. And I was the peace, and the duck over there was it too, and the wrinkly old lady still waddling along was the peace, and the peace was all around, everything just vibrated with it, this grace, this presence that was utterly unconditional and free, this overwhelming love that seemed to be the very essence of the world, the very reason for it, the Alpha and the Omega of it all..."

- Jeff Foster, 2007

06/18/2017

Have you taken a moment to breathe in all that's precious in your life yet today?

Make yourself smile!! It's easy... stretch your arms out wide to the side, look up, and take a few breaths. Now try to be sad!

Now, what's the next most loving thing you can do for yourself? 🌈🌺🤙🏽

(Fun fact: this picture was taken 7 years ago during the most heartbreaking chapter of my life. Heart-broken wide open, that is...)

06/10/2017

05/20/2017

"What you find is that your dreams grow well with love. If you seek anything in this life, look for things that draw you into the greater love."
~Wah
Sacred Patterns - Love Holding Love
❤️💛💚💙💜

05/07/2017

A perfect Sunday meditation ❤️🙏🏼❤️

04/15/2017

Freely Download the "Grateful" song and Full album as a gift from nimo at: http://www.emptyhandsmusic.com/album-gift-for-all Musicians Nimo Patel and Daniel ...

04/06/2017

& How many decades does it take to rid the psychic imprinting of this memory?

04/04/2017

What a lovely way to come back to now. 🌟🙏🌟

03/21/2017

Yes! ❤️💛💚💙💜

03/14/2017

“The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.” ~ Henri Nouwen

02/14/2017

A lovely perspective to remember...