Dance of the Eagle

This evening Liziah and I co-lead our second Stretch and Fly Yoga Dance class. Our class focus tonight was the "Dance of the Eagle: Spreading Our Wings." We shared the following poem before class and during savasana.

Art by Willow Arlenea from: http://www.designsbywillow.com/

Eagle Poem  

by Joy Harjo

To pray you open your whole self  

To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon

To one whole voice that is you.

And know there is more

That you can't see, can't hear

Can't know except in moments

Steadily growing, and in languages

That aren't always sound but other

Circles of motion.

Like eagle that Sunday morning

Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky

In wind, swept our hearts clean

With sacred wings.

We see you, see ourselves and know

That we must take the utmost care

And kindness in all things.

Breathe in, knowing we are made of

All this, and breathe, knowing

We are truly blessed because we

Were born, and die soon, within a

True circle of motion,

Like eagle rounding out the morning

Inside us.

We pray that it will be done

In beauty.

In beauty.

"Eagle Poem" by Joy Harjo, from In Mad Love and War.

© Wesleyan University Press, 1990