Dearest Yoga Garden Peeps!

They require your full attention and kindness and vigilance. The greatest transition one can make is to be conscious. To take responsibility and be accountable, reliable, and aware. Naturally, it is much more encouraging when these transitions occur with a community, a team, a family, someone with you. Yet, there are moments in life where we gotta face the music alone, and detach from the patterns, the webs which kept us going in automatic behaviour. Which brings me to the state of the world.

It is difficult to read the news. Many people have altogether stopped doing so. Other people have created their own version of news, and it is strenuous to say the least, to decipher where is the thread that links us to REAL NEWS? How do we know what we are reading, learning, consuming, sharing, believing...how do we know if it is real?

19 years ago, when 9/11 happened, one of the major changes that occurred, besides the brutal, invasion in Afghanistan and Iraq, was the altering of journalism in terms of what news was allowed to be dissemenated. The way in which we got information, and digested news. This becomes so problematic if you are not in the know. If you are just going about your day, going to work, paying your taxes, bills, trying, to be a “good citizen” and participating in what is being asked of you...none of this means that we are necessarily CONSCIOUS though. So someone is always guiding us, leading us somewhere, and we can be alert, or not.

On the path of Yoga, once you stop looking at it from a physical perspective only, you begin to engage in how connected we all are.

The thread of 19 years ago we (north western nations) supported the bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq, we accepted the news of these people being evil, horrible terrorists, and heard it on repeat over and over again, til they were no longer really human, til, we didn’t care that there is yet another explosion, blast, attack with hundreds or even thousands gone! Just like that, we no longer flinched. We bought our coffee to go, and maybe some more things to go and went about our day. OUR problems. Those aren’t our problems...and those very people who managed to run away and make it here to the western borders, they too are demonized as barbaric, fundamentalists. 9/11 is a point in time historically speaking where things changed. Drastically I might add.

Another such change recently was the 2008 economic crisis. This changed the face of the left really. It created a major platform for the right wing populists to be right where they are now. And we are all watching, EYES WIDE OPEN, what will happen of this PANDEMIC???

Who is in charge? Is it you? You and your community? Is it the government? Is it fake news? Is it a conspiracy theory? Is it the world health organization? Everyone has an opinion, and a lot of people are experts, and so many are really SO PETRIFIED of the change, the TRANSITION that is happening, silently, loudly, locally and globally. The transition is enormous, it requires an altogether re-patterning.