Serenity: Poems

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Every April, National Poetry Month offers an opportunity for us to include more poetry in our daily lives…and perhaps in our yoga practices! Yoga class is fertile ground for us to implant a love of poetry: Our students, who have made the choice to step away from the exigencies of daily life and tune in to the subtlest of sensations and sounds, may be uniquely receptive to a poem or two. Oh, God, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what can not be helped, and insight to know the one from the other. [4] Wygal was a longtime YWCA official and all early recorded usages were from women involved in volunteer or educational activities connected to the YWCA. [6] [17] :3 As long as we are alive, we are in motion. The transition between asanas, the care with which we move in and out of a pose, are as important as the poses themselves. Even within the held space of an asana, we find the dance of the breath, the constant subtleties of tuning that align the body more harmoniously. Pray for my husband - Please pray for my husband to be calm, peaceful, and untroubled at his eye surgery tomorrow. ...

Joy Harjo is a poet and a member of the Mvskoke Nation, whose work generally lends itself to yogic exploration. Her book How We Became Human is a great place to start, and it contains many poems that would work well in a yoga or meditation class. McConnell, Andrew (July 9, 2020). "Accept The Things You Cannot Change, Or Change The Things You Cannot Accept?". Forbes . Retrieved 2022-06-21. Niebuhr presented it in a 1943 sermon at Heath Evangelical Union Church in Heath, Massachusetts. [13] [6] Niebuhr's wife and daughter would later say this was when they understood the prayer was first written and used. [14] It then also appeared in a sermon of Niebuhr's in the 1944 A Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces, [6] and was printed on cards for American soldiers in WWII. [15] [16] From January 1944, Niebuhr began being cited as the source of the prayer in newspaper articles. Bill W. (June 1957). Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age: A Brief History of A. A. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. p. 196. ISBN 9780916856021.How: Read very slowly, encouraging students to locate and then relax each part of the body mentioned therein. (Caution: You may want to edit out a few frank anatomical references that could disrupt relaxation!) In around 1932, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr is reported to have used the prayer as the last part of a longer prayer. [1] The prayer became published in English language newspapers much more from 1940, but never attributed to Wygal or Neibuhr. The prayer was also quoted in the Richmond Times-Dispatch later that month. [7] Substantial quotes from the prayer were also printed in two Atlanta newspapers that month. [8] [9] a b William Trollinger (October 9, 2017). "Religion at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference". Righting America. , reviewing a conference session by William FitzGerald (Rutgers University-Camden) titled "Erasure and Authority: Recovering a Feminist History of the Serenity Prayer". [ non-primary source needed]

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American lyric poet whose work is often overlooked in discussions of twentieth-century American poetry. Yet at its best, Teasdale’s work has a lyricism and beauty which can rival that of many poets of her time. Here she meditates on the calm that a deep peace brings:

How can you accept things you cannot change?

Peace - Please pray for me I'm going through a rough time. I have a lot of chronic pain. I'm suffering through some loses of loved ones.… ... An injury, a pose that is eternally frustrating, an experience with a teacher that irritates you, are lessons that become threads in the strong weave of your practice. In yoga (in life), we do our best to stay the course, but we also trust the wind to carry us home. Bless peaceful day - Oftentimes I find myself inclined to pray to jesus I love you help me to love u more and not just Jesus but Mary joseph… ... William FitzGerald believes Wygal wrote the prayer, arguing sexism as the reason for misattribution, [18] while Fred Shapiro's, with greater nuance, has alternated in his conclusions, but presents both the messages that the "[o]rigin is debated" and Wygal as author in materials relating to The New Yale Book of Quotations, published in 2021. [5] [6] [19] Versions [ edit ] Wygal, Winnifred (1940). "We Plan Our Own Worship Services: Business Girls Practice the Act and the Art of Group Worship". Archive.org. New York: The Woman's Press. p.25.