Grateful Time: Rabbi Myriam Klotz

Myriam, Myr-I-Am, is one of my official teachers. And in the seven years since we have known each we have developed a special friendship. We like to play with words. We are yoginis, we like to play! The other day she sent me a message:  "I just typed your name but the 'l' deleted by accident, and i discovered your dear "aura".  of course!" She signed the message Myr-I-Am and I responded: "Words are so full of fun and deeper meaning....And Myr...I think of you as one who reflects our beauty and sacredness back to the I am's...(all of us) who are blessed to know you..." 

Rabbi Myriam Klotz is co-founder of the Yoga and Jewish Spirituality Teacher Training Institute  at Isabella Freedman with my other esteemed and loving yoga teacher Diane Bloomfield. Myriam is also Director of Yoga and Movement Practices at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. I studied diligently with Myriam for a total of 3 years if you put the two intensive 18 month trainings I did with her together, and I continue to study  with her through IJS and YJSI because I value all of the wise and supportive teachers and the wisdom they share with deep generosity. And while Myriam is an excellent teacher, Spiritual Director, Rabbi and Yogini, you need to know she is also a loving partner, mother, friend and all around compassionate, beautiful human BEING. LoVe YOU Myriam!

Photo by Myriam

Grateful Time

Tall thick trunk of oak that shoots from ground acres up into the sky

Few branches,  years in the making

Yesterday I looked up to see

And saw

The one or two leaves still left

Trunk to tip from ground  to up-gaze

Grateful

For the gift of Time.

In whose hands

Seed springs to sprout and supple turns to strong and small grows into Big and Stable and Rooted and Tall

Grateful.

For the gift of Time

In whose hands

Friendship sparks and grows hot with recognition, longing

Fires of desire for

Time

Grows, cooling fears

Longing held in Time’s hands

Steadies, ah!

Bursts, births into Trust through Time  and

Love.   Steady warming and

It took the time it took.

Grateful.

For the gift of Time,

In whose hands

I have learned how to pause,

How to listen,

How to see,

How to renounce,

How to take pleasure

And Love

In the slow sometimes steady and sometimes jolting

Growth of the Life I have

Blessed to Be

A part of

This,

Love

This,

Friendship

This,

Companionship

This,

Parenting

This,

Body

This,

Now,

Trust

As hairs grow grey

As warm turns to chill

And it is all arrested.

But now I know

Time’s Gift to Linger

Suspended Breath Ever Steady

It is

Ever.

Grateful

For the gift of Time

To Know

There is

Always.

Listen to Myriam as she shares a Restorative Yoga Practice for Stressful Times in this podcast titled Waters of Repose (Psalm 23) by clicking HERE 

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