18/11/2025
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me!! 59 today! Another year passes & grateful I have explored and becoming more in tune and wholesome to who I am, inner peace, an equanimity,
inner harmony and inner love. So well done to me, I am grateful for this day and for being blessed with my wonderful family, friends & many friendships created from seeing you on the mat each week. This past year, I have seen a shift in myself. I have most certainly sought after it, since the turmoils on this sacred planet never cease, the flux and flow is part of existence, within it if one can surrender to it and find that steadiness that can be nurtured, slowly step by step into the vastness and so I have spent many hours, you can see from the photo, it is in my sons bedroom, here meditating, daily recitals, learning from the epics Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana. I am learning the yoga of living in great harmony. The epics have brought me gifts of steadiness Thank you to Jamesboagyoga for bringing these epics to life. I certainly feel I have stepped my toe into the ocean of richness of these teachings.
The flavours of the poetry and the storytelling was so compelling, at times jaw dropping. Each week intrigued to learn more about the wonderful teachings of yoga. Each week to delve a little more and as calls that process of excavation, who knows what will be uncovered!
photo credit: a selfie // contemplation.
As world has become more and more polarised, wars continue in vain, famines, poverty, the illness into our life from institutions & governments, the climate chaos all continues. Learning to remain in the centre and doing what you can, it will always be there and it has always been there.
Another important teaching for me from my teacher Manish Pole would always say, ‘we are our own best experiment’ with this as a mantra I have been able to carve into past behaviours with the teachings learnt, and patterns that were toxic and to be free of them is liberating. Last week I spent 10days on a silent retreat, vipassana learning the teachings of Buddha through dhamma.org the Nobel silence was a work in, each day a challenge starting at 4am with a routine to learn to meditate in Buddhas way, for Enlightenment. The long hours of mediation 9hrs each day was a huge challenge in mind, body and spirit, the sitting was challenging, but over the days the body became stronger, a self determination was built, the mind observed and totally irrational at times. The pains in body, the body heat and there was an anxiety. Observing irrational negative thoughts were battled with and were extinguished. It has been an most interesting inner work and feel the gifts & that the mind has shifted in many ways. I look forward to my 60th next year and 60’s who knows what will be excavated!!!
