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| Dear Marcella, It’s Mother’s Day. I hope you are getting meaningful emails from all the places you will receive such messages today. Looking through the lens of yoga and India, when people speak about India it is very common to call her “Mother India”. This reference is throughout India and the world (especially for those who have visited). There is an intrinsic sense of the sacred, the holy, the divine infused throughout India in its culture, its citizens, its rituals, and its philosophies. Mother India will always welcome us. And, she will, no doubt, transform us too. Often in ways that we could not have predicted, may not have preferred, and yet, must surrender too. The tradition of yoga comes from this land and is, therefore, also inherently a path of transformation, not by our own design. But a larger transforming through the divine. This will require both our dedication (abhyasa) to practice the tools of yoga and our surrender (vairagyam) of how we think this should all be turning out! I look forward to seeing you on the mat, online, anytime you can join us. (The link for the online schedule is on my website.) May this Mother’s Day be one of transformation in just the ways your life is needing. Yours on the path, Sarahjoy |
