Dear Friends,
Recently the group of 19 monks arrived in Washington, DC after completing their 108-day Walk for Peace. Millions followed them online in the journey and thousands of people met them along their journey. Feathered Pipe Board President, Anne Jablonski, met them along their journey in Arlington, VA and shares a little about her experience…
Quiet Presence
“I’ve been deeply moved by following the monks on the Walk for Peace. In the middle of all the noise, the grief, the clenched-jaw headlines of the world, they have felt like a living counterpose. Sort of a soft, steady backbend of the heart.
There is something disarmingly simple about what they offer. No spectacle. No argument. Just feet on the earth, breath in the body, bowls in their hands, and an unmistakable field of care moving slowly across the land. Watching them, I keep thinking: this is what sanity looks like.
Their message of compassion doesn’t feel abstract or lofty, but practical and elemental, almost like water finding its way downhill. Like the most natural response to suffering is not hardening, but softening. Not turning away, but walking toward one another, step by humble step.
Somehow, in their quiet presence, watching their progress each day, I remember what I want to belong to. What I want to practice. What I want to keep choosing, even when the world feels heavy.”
Anne’s full article can be read here.
Main Hall Online Series
Susan-Elena Eaquivel – March 7 at 10 am PT/11 am MT/12 noon CT/1 pm ET
We invite you to join the upcoming Feathered Pipe Main Hall Series featuring Susan-Elena Esquivel as she focuses on yoga to help ease neck and shoulder pain.
— Susan-Elena started dancing at age 5 beginning a lifelong fascination with form and alignment as well as the body/mind connection. She has been studying Iyengar yoga for the past 25 years and is a Certified Iyengar Teacher (CIYT) at the Intermediate Junior II Level (now Level II) and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). Her classes are infused with the knowledge of spinal health gained in her apprenticeship with Elise Browning Miller from whom she learned the nuances of scoliosis and other spinal disorders. Easing the suffering caused by spinal imbalances is one of her main interests. Susan-Elena and Elise will teach together at Feathered Pipe Ranch in August.
Thank you to Jillian Pransky and Lauren Lewis for teaching two previous classes in the series. We’ve had wonderful feedback from those who have attended the Main Hall Online series and are grateful for each of the teachers who have taken the time to share their teaching with attendants from around the world.
Feathered Pipe Scholarship Program
Thank you to all who applied to our 2026 scholarship program. We will be in contact by direct email next week to let you know about award amounts and how to accept/utilize the scholarship.
With love and gratitude,
Crystal Water
Executive Director of Feathered Pipe Foundation
*Featured image credits: Melina Meza