MUSIC | Tipper : Snot Rocket

Here's something a little glitchy to get you going...

MUSIC | A Bad Lip Reading : Everybody Poops

POETRY | Stephen Dunn : How to be Happy: Another Memo to Myself

How to be Happy: Another Memo to Myself 

by stephen dunn

You start with your own body
then move outward, but not too far.
Never try to please a city, for example.
Nor will the easy intimacy
in small towns ever satisfy that need
you have only whispered in the dark.
A woman is a beginning.
She need not be pretty, but must know
how to make her own ceilings
out of all that’s beautiful in her.
Together you must love to exchange
gifts in the night, and agree
on the superfluity of ribbons,
the fine violence of breaking out
of yourselves. No matter,
it’s doubtful she will be enough for you,
or you for her. You must have friends
of both sexes. When you get together
you must feel everyone has brought
his fierce privacy with him
and is ready to share it. Prepare
yourself though to keep something back;
there’s a center in you
you are simply a comedian
without. Beyond this, it’s advisable
to have a skill. Learn how to make something:
food, a shoe box, a good day.
Remember, finally, there are few pleasures
that aren’t as local as your fingertips.
Never go to Europe for a cathedral.
In large groups, create a corner
in the middle of the room.

MUSIC | Angus & Julia Stone : For You [Live in Paris]

MUSIC | Ray laMontagne : Within You

PLAYLIST | Yoga on Yamhill : July 31

Tuesday, July 31 | 9 - 10:15 pm
P.L.A.Y. Yoga
(Peace. Love. And. Yoga)
Yoga on Yamhill

MUSIC | Titica : Olha o Boneco

PLAYLIST | Yoga on Yamhill : July 26

Thursday, July 26 | 9 - 10:15 pm
P.L.A.Y. Yoga
(Peace. Love. And. Yoga)
Yoga on Yamhill

MUSIC | Rainbow Arabia : Let Them Dance

EVENT | Yoga Groove : July 22, 2012

Yoga Groove; discover what moves you

The hunger to move ecstatically is within all of us. Invite this potential energy to flourish with "Yoga Groove," a two hour blast of meditation in motion, pranayama, asana, and trance dance! Allow world beats, psychedelic rhythms, and electronic grooves to free your body and guide you into the arms of this ancient wisdom.

Unleash the tribal rhythm of your spirit!

Sunday, July 22 | 7 - 9pm
Yoga on Yamhill
124 SW Yamhill St | Portland, OR
www.yogaonyamhill.com

This is a donation based event. Suggested $15 - 25.
Please come no matter what you can afford.
ALL are welcome!

Roger McKeever is an inspirational teacher, artist, and spiritual activist. He is known for demonstrating the transformational power of yoga, breath, movement and dance. Roger is playful, intuitive and grounded. He invites you to experience your innermost desires, follow your curiosity and indulge your sense of wonder as you attend to your body’s natural rhythms. As a spiritual activist, Roger guides us to the persistent call from within to make more art and make more love.

Visit Roger at www.sacredtremor.com

MUSIC | Lykke Li : Get Some

MUSIC | Girish : Diamonds in the Sun

Lokah Samasah Sukhino Bhavantu

May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all. 

Let's look more closely at the meaning of each word of this invocational mantra: 

lokah: location, realm, all universes existing now 

samastah: all beings sharing that same location 

sukhino: centered in happiness and joy, free from suffering 

bhav: the divine mood or state of unified existence 

antu: may it be so, it must be so (antu used as an ending here transforms this mantra into a powerful pledge)

This is a prayer each one of us can practice every day. It reminds us that our relationships with all beings and things should be mutually beneficial if we ourselves desire happiness and liberation from suffering. No true or lasting happiness can come from causing unhappiness to others. No true or lasting freedom can come from depriving others of their freedom. If we say we want every being to be happy and free, then we have to question everything that we do-how we live, how we eat, what we buy, how we speak, and even how we think. 

(From Jivamukti Yoga)

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MUSIC | NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert : Patrick Watson

by STEPHEN THOMPSON

Patrick Watson has a lovely, flexible voice and a gift for wringing evocative sounds out of everything from vintage keyboards to bicycle chains, but his real gift lies in his ability to maximize beauty at all times; to guide every noise in such a way that it coheres into something dramatic and graceful. When the Polaris Prize winner performs, he seems almost hypnotized by the sounds around him, yet every second and every unlikely component seems plotted to maximize its impact. It's deliberate, impeccably appointed music that still seems airy and spontaneous.
Given that every note Watson has ever played is etched into some nook or cranny of Bob Boilen's living soul, it's a wonder that we'd managed to schedule more than 200 Tiny Desk Concerts without bringing the Montreal singer-songwriter to the NPR Music offices. With a gifted and like-minded backing band on hand to help flesh out these three songs from Adventures in Your Own Backyard, Watson conducts a swirl of interlocking loveliness that still finds room for surprises, from a singing saw to a microphone that makes his voice sound as if it's bouncing off some faraway satellite.

Set List:

• "Adventures In Your Own Backyard"

• "Words In The Fire"

• "Into Giants"

Credits:
Producer: Bob Boilen; Editor: Michael Katzif; Videographers: Michael Katzif and Emily Bogle; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; photo by Michael Katzif/NPR

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