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Dear Friends and Community,
Sometimes it takes a forest fire 2,600 miles away to know we are connected. And while we have smoke, Canada has fire. And while our pools are closed, whole communities have been lost, livelihood,homes, and all the things in them. Many First Nation peoples had to flee their homes, and the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation community of Collins Ontario has been destroyed. They had to flee by boats to escape the fires. Good to mention that everyone has been accounted for. And while Canada asks for help to fight the fires our woeful fearful president says he will raise the tariffs because of the smoke. He imagines he is separate from everything and everyone, and the air and sky aren’t one thing over us all where we have no control. All of his responses hurt someone.
I hope you are taking the suggested precautions and not taking in too much of the air. Even being indoors my eyes burn, I have a headache and my throat is sore. It seems with the rain expected it will help with the smoke. Perhaps by the time you are reading this the rain will have arrived.
I was happy to receive some responses to last weeks email. Some questions, and a lovely poem, all of which I will share. The questions I will endeavor to answer.
I want to thank those who showed up for drum circle on Friday. I thank all those here
as well. We all are part of global community of no specific name or agenda except to establish ourselves in our humanity, and to share the experiences we have in becoming human beings. It is no small thing being on this journey together.
I will offer some announcements and the schedule and then continue with the topic.
There will be no yoga during the month of August. Except for Monday Meditation, Sangha and Reiki, and Drum Circle, there will be little going in Heart Space. It is a different summer season this year, and I do think it is not just my health. I feel we are in a waiting pattern of sorts, sorting things out, watchful and hopeful.
Sunday July 19 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2026-05-03-2026-05-10-2026-05-17-2026-05-24-2026-05-31-2026-06-07-2026-06-14-2026-06-21-2026-06-28-2026-07-05-2026-07-12-2026-07-19/)
Monday July 20 ~ 6 to 7:30 PM ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2026-07-20/)
Thursday July 23 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2026-07-23/)
Sunday July 26 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2026-05-03-2026-05-10-2026-05-17-2026-05-24-2026-05-31-2026-06-07-2026-06-14-2026-06-21-2026-06-28-2026-07-05-2026-07-12-2026-07-19-2026-07-26/)
For all inquiries to the ongoing Reiki classes and or sessions please contact Myra Reichel at 610-348-5698
The Light in the Dark Night ll…
First I will say that we all will experience our spiritual dark night in our own way, unique to our path and to who we are. But it will be seasoned with similarities, and one likeness, will be the light running through it. The dark night is birthed through light, through our awakening.
Our awakening allows us to see through the veil of illusion to reveal a cacophony of discordant systems of belief that we have waded through,hoping for their depth, yet nearly drowning in their shallowness. Holding both is jolting.
The questions asked were how do we set boundaries with the darkness, so it does not consume us and overtake our lightness? How do we reveal darkness without too much pain? How do we set boundaries inside ourselves?
We get to the dark night quite innocently. We are awakening. Expanding our thoughts beyond the things we have been taught and even the things well learned. We are understanding that the more there is to know is endless, infinite beyond our imaginings. But even though we cannot reach to its limits, we can get to know more than we ever thought we could. It is a process, and the knowing does not happen in a minute. Gradually the door to our understanding has opened. Again depending on our own experience it can be something we see in a vision, or a dream, and it can be something we read. What happens is more truth enters in…the openings get wider, we get to see and understand more and more, equal to what can be managed. But it is more than we imagined there is. Perhaps more than we wanted to know.
Ultimately, and I must say this is my experience, and I can only speak from my experience, the dark night will answer a question that for the most part was never uttered aloud. It was held in the heart, perhaps in a silent prayer. Never do we think we could know. And again, often it feels like it is too much to know. The darkness is an adjustment, a sorting out, and spiraling back to see where this light now fits in. The work we have done, and the experiences we have had on our path have established a trust that moves us through. Our trust sets the boundary that allows the light to pierce the darkness of the dark night. As a result, the light will overtake the darkness.
The darkness of the dark night is a jolt. Reality throws back the veil. We see something new. It is painful to our senses, but not forever so. It opens the lens in our awareness to expand the view. It exposes a darkness and reveals a light…expands the light further. Through it our trust grows, as we continue to evolve.
The path of awakening to the realization of who we are, of what we are here to do, is a step into the great unknown. Whatever boundaries or limitation had held us back from this journey no longer exist. We brake the bonds that tie us to a the unimaginative world of the status quo, where we settle for the small and temporary things. Bound to our spirit we expand towards what is limitless, endless, infinite. Our spirit informs our life, our mind and thoughts and thinking. Our soul is awakened to accomplish the bigger work of the bigger work. Thriving, Being, Loving.
We never need to muddle through a dark nights journey alone, if there is someone available that has been through the experience. The work of trust will be ours, but a friend can be a help and guide. I hope this was helpful.
And now the poem:
Singing To The Night
Jan Richardson
(How the Stars Get into Your Bones)
Who would have thought
the sky could be so pierced
or that it could pour forth such
light through the breach
whose shape matched
so precisely
the hole in the heart
that had ached
for long ages,
weary from all its emptying?
And what had once been
a wound
opened now,
like a door
or a dream,
radiant in its welcome,
singing to the night
that would prove itself
at last
not endless.
Call the piercing a star.
Call it the place the light begins.
Call it the point that tethers us
to this sheltering sky.
Call it the hope
that keeps holding us
to this broken
blessed earth,
that keeps turning us
toward this world,
luminous beneath
Its shadows.
Call it the vigil fire
kept in that place
where every last thing
will be mended
and we will see one another
finally whole,
shining like
the noonday sun.
With love,peace and blessings,
Denise Yocco
Heart Space at Seven Stone
image: a marble tile carved by a dear friend that I painted…thank you Noah
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