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"There is a fine line between loving life and being greedy for it." Maya Angelou

Perfect love casteth out all fear. The Science of Mind Ernest Holmes As Love enters, fear vanishes. I am so filled with Love that no fear can enter my thought. I am not afraid, for I know that a Perfect Intelligence guards and governs my every act. Perfect Love casteth out all fear. I am unafraid, and strong in my faith in that inner Presence that keeps me from all harm. Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

"Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time." - Maya Angelou

YogaLove is a community based yoga studio in North Oakland Location 3851 Market Street, Oakland, CA 94608 Website: https://www.yogaloveoakland.com/ Founders: Treina Alexander Information ​ Namaste! We intentionally offer small class sizes to provide alignment cues, adjustments and assists, for each student. Our Registered and experienced teachers are here to share their love of Yoga. With beginner to advanced classes, YogaLove is the perfect place to start, strengthen, deepen and love your practice. We invite you to become a YogaLover. Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

From the Crown Issue of Liveology Yoga Magazine. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts is a book by Gary Chapman that an apply to any relationship, whether it be romantic, familial, or friendship. The 5 Love Languages is so universal, it has been adapted in many different forms - for couples, singles, even children. Gifts It is common to think of the Gifts love language as desiring lavish displays of affection or superficial things, but it is so much deeper than that. Gifts can represent thoughtfulness, concern for the other person when you are away, and awareness of the other person’s personality and desires. Giving gifts can be as simple as bringing your partner an their favorite smoothie or picking up a small item that reminds you of them. Quality Time We don’t always have a large quantity of time, but quality time can happen anytime, anywhere. Even small things like devoting 10 minutes to really listen to your partner and provide undivided attention can be as meaningful as larger gestures like going on trips. Physical Touch Physical touch is so much more than sex, though sex can be an important need. Touch encompasses the whole body, and can provide endorphins and feelings of connectedness and safety. A simple 30 second hug when reuniting at the end of the day can increase the harmony between couples tremendously. Words of Affirmation While we often receive a lot of praise as children, words of affirmation are not always heard in the adult world, so it can feel really good to receive basic encouragement. A simple statement like, “You did a really good job” can go a long way. Acts of Service Acts of service can be one of the most difficult but one of the most valuable. It is going out of your way (and out of your comfort zone) to do things to help the other person. This can include anything from doing the dishes to helping the person prepare for a presentation or event. At the root, acts of service make people feel supported and cared for by helping to meet practical needs. Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Though i am in this hell and fire i'm filled with honey and nectar. i am the minstrel of eternal love and will play the song of happiness when my soul hears music and changes to softness i'll break open the wine jar's seal i am in love with the temple of fire because i was born as the prophet named Khalili Abraham i am in love with soul and wisdom i am the enemy of false images the spring is arriving it is high time for action for the sun and Aries to get together my blood is boiling my heart is on fire and the winter snow is melting away from my body someone's love is knocking me out and pulling me after itself very forcefully though i am in this hell and fire i'm filled with honey and nectar though i am condemned to take this journey i'm filled with the sweetness of going home now the time has come my sweetheart kindly express what my tongue can never describe Translation by Nader Khalili Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

except for compassion, except for love in this earth in this immaculate field we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion except for love Translation by Nader Khalili Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Niyamas are 2nd of the 8-Limbs of yoga. The Previous Limb -> The Yamas Language Sanskrit Meaning: Personal Ethics or Observances The 5 Niyamas Saucha - Purification Santosha - Contentment Tapas - Self-Discipline Svadhyaya - Self-Study Isvara Pranidhana - Surrender Information The Niyamas are personal disciplines which are things like having a daily practice, self-study. Trying to understand yourself is really part of the second limb of yoga and the discipline or the consistency of putting effort in toward understanding who you are and how do to evolve into a brighter more evolved version of yourself. In order to do that, you have to really understand where you are right now and come to an honest place about who you are in the world, which is what the first limb of yoga helps you to find. The Yamas and the Niyamas together help you to set the mind and the actions in the right direction before even beginning Asana, which is the third limb of yoga. The Next Limb -> Asana

Benefits Strengthening for the Legs Mobilizes the Hip Flexors, Ankles, and Feet Hip Opening Information Begin standing. Step one leg back and drop down onto the knee into a wide stance. The front leg should be bent at a 90 degree angle. Square the hips forward Lift the arms overhead, lift the chest up and reach through the fingers. Draw the shoulder blades down the back. Drop the hips forward, extending the back leg, stretching the hip flexor. Repeat on the other side. Related: Virabhadrasana A Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Benefits Opens the hips Opens the back Opens the chest Drishti Nose Information Begin on the knees. Make sure the lower legs are parallel behind you. Reach both hands back toward the feet at the same time, placing the heels of the hands on the heels of the feet and the palms flat. Lift the chest and reach the hips forward. Hold for 5 or more breaths. Related: Laghu Vajrasana Kapotasana Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Liberation. Meaning mokṣa - Release from samsara, liberation, freedom Traditions Hinduism Buddhism Jainism Sikhism Information Moksha is a Sanskrit word meaning liberation, or freedom. It refers to liberation from samsara, or the endless cycle of death, rebirth, and suffering. Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Once the chains have come off, why are you still sitting in the jail cell? Weather Sun in Gemini Waning Gibbous Moon in Aquarius Monday, May 31, 2021 Get free. It has been a whirlwind, and out the chaos, God blessed us with a storefront space in Castleberry Hill. Up until recently, I was teaching just a few 1/2 Primary Series classes a week, however this new space enables me to continue to teach my students the Primary Series and grow these classes into a full Ashtanga program. Liveology Yoga Studios is an Ashtanga based studio with options for beginners and experienced practitioners. If you are new to the Ashtanga method, join us for 1/2 Primary Series, in this 75 minute heated class and learn the postures as we go. We also have an Ashtanga Foundations Course beginning 7/10, in which will take a deep dive into the method and the 8 limbs of yoga. We also have fun, all levels classes including Yogaerobics on Tuesdays at 7:30 and our midday, community Pranayama + Meditation. If you are experienced, join us on Wednesday morning 7:30-10 AM for Open Mat and Thursdays for Full Primary Series. Ready to take flight? Rocket yoga classes will begin in July. Ashtanga yoga is a powerful method for healing and personal transformation. Are you ready for the journey? I practice and teach this method of yoga because of how personally transformative it has been in my life. Ashtanga has helped me to break free of previously held limitations I had on myself and that those had placed upon me. It has been an experience of jailbreaking myself and getting free.

Opposing forces have no hold on you. Weather Sun in Gemini Waning Gibbous Moon in Pisces Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Today is a big day as we are releasing the 1st issue of Liveology Yoga Magazine! Get your copy. We have so many blessings to celebrate. Did you hear we have a new storefront space in Castleberry Hill?

Join us for a beginner friendly version of Ashtanga 1/2 Primary Series, taught by long time practitioner, XP. Mondays at 6 PM. Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Enter if you dare. Weather Sun in Taurus Waning Gibbous Moon in Sagittarius Thursday, April 29, 2021 It's a beautiful, warm day, and let's imagine you're traveling through a new town with a friend or two. You are in an area with lots to see and do, and throughout the day, you venture here and there, exploring and enjoying. And then, you come to a place with a weird vibe. It doesn't look bad, but something feels off to you. One friend wants to go in. You're not so sure. What to do? Exploring new things is never a bad thing, but there is something in the air that smells fishy about a situation around you, and as of today, today, Spirit is giving a gentle warning to be careful about the places you go and the company you keep. Not everyone who smiles in your face or compliments you on Instagram is your friend. Not everyone who is nice to you in superficial ways has your best interest at heart. There are many people who have no ill will toward you, who simply are not heading in the same direction you are and so some of their suggestions or advice, may be very wrong for you. And the unfortunate fact is that some people will intentionally smile in your face and be nice to you only because they have some sort of other motive or intention that you just don't know about. Today, we are being asked to be discerning and to trust our intuition when something seems off. If someone is making an offer or suggestion and it seems totally wrong for you, go with your gut and just pass. The first print issue of Liveology Yoga Magazine is being released in June 2021. Liveology is founded by a black woman, rooted in Ashtanga yoga, based in ATL, devoted to uplifting people of color. Thank you for your continued and growing support. Tell a friend about what we're doing at Liveology today! Love you, family! Christina The most recent Habari Gani? are public. Create a free account for the archive.

Don't miss it... Weather Sun in Gemini Last Quarter Moon in Pisces Tuesday, June 2, 2021 It's always been a party at Liveology Yoga Studios, but right now we're celebrating like it's 1999. I had so much fun last night at Yogaerobics, but more than anything it was amazing to see the smiles and the joy in the faces of the beautiful black women who have already begun to find my classes. If you have't peeped it, we're on a wave. Hop on!

This is getting real. Weather Sun in Gemini Waning Crescent Moon in Leo We are in such a joyous mood at Liveology as we witness dreams become reality right before our eyes. We have a magazine, and it's stunning. We just started showing off the mags and selling them in person on Sunday, and they were flying out of our hands all day! Thank you to everyone who has already purchased a copy and subscribed. We will be producing these monthly, featuring dope yogis and studios from all over, and yoga-related lifestyle and wellness information. Classes Today at Liveology Yoga Studios 6:00 PM Ashtanga Yoga 1/2 Primary Series Check the full schedule and sign up. Join us for our Magazine Launch Party & Yoga Jam this Friday night at Liveology Yoga Studios. Thanks for your continued and growing support. Tell a friend about what we're doing at Liveology today. Get your copy of the inaugural issue of Liveology Yoga Magazine. Love you, family! Christina

CHRISTINA’s 300 HOUR ASHTANGA TRAINING at MIAMI LIFE CENTER Peace family! Our first six months in our first physical space have been amazing, and we are taking it to a whole new level. I am super excited to announce that I have been accepted into a 300 Hour Intensive Ashtanga Training with Kino MacGregor, Tim Feldmann, and other guest teachers this February-March. We will be practicing Ashtanga yoga 6 days a week Mysore style, and will spend the afternoons in workshops. I am overjoyed and honored to have this opportunity. For those of you who have been following my personal yoga journey, I have been practicing in the Ashtanga method since April 2017. I came to meditation and eventually Ashtanga yoga after a car accident and some events I found to be traumatic in the fall of 2016. I wanted to change my life. I needed peace. I immediately began going to meditation at Drepung Monastery and by the spring, I committed to adding 20 minutes a day of yoga practicing to videos on YouTube. I started with Kino MacGregor’s beginner videos. Eventually, those got easy and YouTube led me to her Ashtanga videos, and to a video of her saying to practice daily and to find a yoga teacher in real life. And so I did. I began with a 4 day a week Mysore practice at 5:30 AM. Soon, I was attending led class every Friday. And chanting and practice most Sundays. It is mind blowing to realize I have been on this path for almost 5 years, and the result has been miraculous for my life. Words can hardly convey my excitement to be here now with a very different life, indeed. Together, we have accomplished so much. A physical studio, a print publication, and the opportunity to go to Miami Life Center! I’ll be honest with you, fam. I am more than a little nervous about being seen by Kino, and about how intense Ashtanga can be mentally as much as it is physically. But I started on this path because I wanted to change my life in a big way, and so I’m going to Miami with an open heart and mind, reminding myself this experience is simply about presence, not perfection. I look forward to coming back stronger, more aligned, and more in tune with the direction we should take Liveology over the next year, 5 years, 10 years, and onward. LIVEOLOGY 200 YTT COMING SOON Teacher trainings are the #1 thing you all started asking me for when we opened the yoga house, and when I get back, around the Spring Solstice, I will be able to register as a 500 hour yoga teacher, and register Liveology as a teacher training site with the Yoga Alliance. Stay tuned for our first 200 Hour YTT coming soon! SCHEDULE CHANGES While I am in Miami being transformed, the yoga house will remain open in the hands of teachers I love and trust. I hope those of you who have been learning the Primary Series will continue practicing! Ashtanga 1/2 Primary Series Mondays at 6 PM Manifestation Monday 1st Mondays at 7:30 PM Capoeira Angola Wednesdays at 7:30 PM Movement & Meditation Thursdays at 8 PM Flight Club Saturdays 10-12 The mag and our monthly yoga challenges on IG will continue as usual. Thank you for your continued and growing support. I welcome your prayers and well wishes as I embark on this leg of this beautiful journey. Love you, fam. Peace & Pineapples! Christina V. Mills Founder, Liveology Yoga Studios & Magazine Liveology, LLC is a yoga media company creating uplifting content for your whole life. Our subscriptions provide access to our full online library as well as access to digital issues of Liveology Yoga Magazine. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Sharing is caring. Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Roll up. Drishti Toes How to: Begin laying down on your back. On an inhale, kick the legs over head and old the sides of the feet with the hands. Exhale here. Inhale as you roll up with the head back. Point through the feet. Exhale as you fold in toward the legs. Look up to the toes. Hold for 5 or more breaths. Exhale as you extend the arms one more time, reaching the head back. Christina Mills is the founder and editor of Liveology Yoga Studios & Magazine, and a student of Ashtanga yoga. Learn more about Christina. Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Psalm 18 I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, so I shall be saved from my enemies. The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me; the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry. Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him. He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water. Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire. The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice. And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them. Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at our rebuke, O, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. 16 He reached down from high, he took me; he drew me out of mighty waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my support. He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his ordinances were before me, and his statues I did not put away from me. I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt. Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. 25 With the loyal you show yourself loyal; with the blameless you show yourself blameless; with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself perverse. For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. It is you who light my lamp; the LORD, my God, lights up my darkness. By you I can crush a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. This God - his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all who take refuge in him. 31 Fo who is God except the LORD? And who is a rock besides our God? the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe. He made my feet like te feet of a deer, and set me secure on the heights. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have given me the shield of our salvation, and your right hand has supported me; your help has made me great. You gave me a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back until they were consumed. I struck them down, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet. For you girded me with the strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me. You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them. I beat them fine, like dust , before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets. 43 You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you made me head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me. Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their strongholds. 46 The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation, the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me; who delivered me from my enemies; indeed, you exalted me above my adversaries; you delivered me from the violent. 49 For this I will extol you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to our name. Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever. New Revised Standard Version

Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? Language Hebrew God’s Promise to His Anointed 1 Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying, 3 “Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us.” 4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the LORD has them in derision. 5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, 6 “I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.” 7 I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have begotten you. 8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” 10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling 12 kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him. New Revised Standard Version Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscribe for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

"the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.” Information Hebrew Name: עֵשָׂו English Translation: Hairy Known For: 1st son of Isaac and Rebekah A twin, with Jacob Red and hairy Skillful hunter, man of the field Loved by his father, Isaac Mentioned in: Scripture References The Descendants of Isaac Isaac Blesses Jacob Esau’s Lost Blessing Esau Marries Ishmael’s Daughter Jacob Sends Presents to Appease Esau Jacob and Esau Reunite The Death of Isaac Esau’s Descendants The Descendants of Isaac Genesis 25:19-28 19 These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 22 The children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the LORD. 23 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger.” 24 When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. 26 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 27 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. 28 Isaac loved Esau, because he was fond of game; but Rebekah loved Jacob. Isaac Blesses Jacob Genesis 27:1 1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “See, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. 3 Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and hunt game for me. 4 Then prepare for me savory food, such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.” 5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father say to your brother Esau, 7 ‘Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food to eat, that I may bless you before the LORD before I die.’ 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you. 9 Go to the flock, and get me two choice kids, so that I may prepare from them savory food for your father, such as he likes; 10 and you shall take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” 11 But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a man of smooth skin. 12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him, and bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.” 13 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my word, and go, get them for me.” 14 So he went and got them and brought them to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his father loved. 15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob; 16 and she put the skins of the kids on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 17 Then she handed the savory food, and the bread that she had prepared, to her son Jacob. 18 So he went in to his father, and said, “My father”; and he said, “Here I am; who are you, my son?” 19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.” 20 But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the LORD your God granted me success.” 21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” 22 So Jacob went up to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” 23 He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him. 24 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” 25 Then he said, “Bring it to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. 26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” 27 So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed. 28 May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine. 29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!” Esau’s Lost Blessing Genesis 27: 30-40, 46 Genesis 28: 1-5 30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau came in from his hunting. 31 He also prepared savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father sit up and eat of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.” 32 His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your firstborn son, Esau.” 33 Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and blessed he shall be!” 34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!” 35 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.” 36 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright; and look, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?” 37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?” 38 Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me, me also, father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 Then his father Isaac answered him: “See, away from the fatness of the earth shall your home be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. 40 By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose,a you shall break his yoke from your neck.” 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?” 28:1 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women. 2 Go at once to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father; and take as wife from there one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. 3 May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples. 4 May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien—land that God gave to Abraham.” 5 Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. Esau Marries Ishmael’s Daughter Genesis 28:6-9 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women,” 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram. 8 So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac, 9 Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, and sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had. Jacob Sends Presents to Appease Esau Genesis 32:3-21 3 Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, 4 instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have lived with Laban as an alien, and stayed until now; 5 and I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.’” 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies, 8 thinking, “If Esau comes to the one company and destroys it, then the company that is left will escape.” 9 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies. 11 Deliver me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him; he may come and kill us all, the mothers with the children. 12 Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’” 13 So he spent that night there, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau, 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milch camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16 These he delivered into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between drove and drove.” 17 He instructed the foremost, “When Esau my brother meets you, and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18 then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob; they are a present sent to my lord Esau; and moreover he is behind us.’” 19 He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you meet him, 20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.” 21 So the present passed on ahead of him; and he himself spent that night in the camp. Jacob and Esau Reunite Genesis 33:1-16 16 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. 2 He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. 3 He himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother. 4 But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6 Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down; 7 Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down. 8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company that I met?” Jacob answered, “To find favor with my lord.” 9 But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” 10 Jacob said, “No, please; if I find favor with you, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God—since you have received me with such favor. 11 Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want.” So he urged him, and he took it. 12 Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you.” 13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.” 15 So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why should my lord be so kind to me?” 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17 But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the place is called Succoth. The Death of Isaac Genesis 35:27-29 27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens. 28 Now the days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. 29 And Isaac breathed his last; he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Esau’s Descendants Genesis 36:1-14 1 These are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom). 2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah sona of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth. 4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau; Basemath bore Reuel; 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan. 6 Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and he moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. 7 For their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they were staying could not support them because of their livestock. 8 So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom. 9 These are the descendants of Esau, ancestor of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir. 10 These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Esau’s wife Basemath. 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. 12 (Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These were the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife. 13 These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife, Basemath. 14 These were the sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah son of Zibeon: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Become a Member! Members receive access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Sharing is caring. Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!