Last class

Yesterday evening I was supposed to teach my last yoga class for the evening group. It is amazing group that builded slowly with few friends coming to relax and strech after the work and long day, and finaly we created nice comunity of Tueasdays night...remembering the "pillow" class, the "champagne" class...
I left Waterstone for Narain, little one hour drive, and slowly sms started to come..."I cannot tonight"..."too tired"..."other comittment"...and so on.
 I decided so to sms everybody and find out who is coming!
 One couple was ready to go and keep it till the last breath! :):):)
Then Jerome, great friend and brave soldat called, and during the conversation we found out what was happening...
"Yes, so what is the signe, as you always see the signe somewhere?" asked Jerome.
"No last class sign? Probably it is good, it means there is NO last class of yoga!" I answered.
"Cool. Actualy we are supposed to continue, and we take our next class in Cairo, Egypt." suggested Jerome...


And you know what? It is definitely the signe! Next year in Cairo!
Thanks to all brave yogis and yoginis for wonderful year of Tuesday nights yoga!

Justice

Today I assited on Justice project of my daughter in her school. The teens presented wonderfuly their interaction with NGO in Mumbai and their way to see where was injustice, where was or not the role of gouvernement, politics, and all of us, individuals, to help.
Great.
Then came speech. The definition of Justice:

a. The principle of moral rightness; equity.

b. Conformity to moral rightness in action or attitude; righteousness.

 

And I saw suddenly that I m not aligned with our society!. Because my spontaneous question would be: WHO SAYS? Who says what is moral? What is right and what is wrong? What exactely means "righteousness"? 

I know, there are some principles that in all societies were and are the same, as respect of life. But what is right for me, is maybe not right for somebody else...I don t think it was right to kill Bin Laden the way it was done...but it is my perception of right and wrong. I agree with gay marriage, there are many they don t see it as right. I consider alcohol and tabac the drugs on the same level as heroin, but society looks at it as socialy acceptable. Still, I don t really feel I m "right" or "wrong". It is my perception and my projection of my own experiences, fears, likes and dislikes. 

At the end nothing is right or wrong, good or bad. It is...and we learn from it.

I will probably not make a career in any justice system neither in education system. It is ok. 

Oh, actualy, IT IS:)

Detachement

A lot to experience the days when we are moving from one country to other.
I just feel how much we are clinging on our little life, our routines, places, objects...and even when we can get detached from all this, we are still attached to the people we met and we love.

I use to say the detachment is actually non-attachement and now I m finally in situation that I can live what I preach. So how the non-attachement feels in the practical way? For me, it feels like letting go of my own labels, expectations and assumptions. I saw few people live last 12 months, and now I m leaving too, and of course, some of them were more important then others in my life. We love us and we hurt us and the great moments of friendship are sometimes spiced by moments of silence or conflict.

Yesterday at one of the farewell party observing the friends around  I felt the Love rising from Detachment. At the moment I can let go of my ideas how the persons or relationships should be, there is space for Love, for Unconditional Love where what count is the person, not our ideas (or of others) about them.  We are free from the prison of our own hell where we try to put others in the boxes we created for them in order to feel safe (ah, when we put them in the box, they can t hurt us , right?)

I m grateful for this lesson. And next time I will teach about detachment, I will use the word Love.

DETACHMENT = LOVE

New beginnings

Today is the day of boxes. One of the many in my life, but this time there is kind of difference. I m putting many things OUT of boxes in order to put them in the boxes. Sounds mad? Let me explain.

I m moving from India to Ireland. Last 4 years were definitely revolutionary in my life, as I met Yoga. Definitely   Meeting Fatal!
So now, accordingly to my yoga teacher and his advice: Travel Light, I m taking out everything what I find home, and with clear intent to move only useful, nice and clear stuff with me,  I m leaving behind me a lot . From far it looks like Ali Baba cave with the treasures from around the world. From near it is just a lot of unnecessary load we are bearing on our shoulders since last 20 years.

Today my friend asked me how I can give away so many things? She noticed that it is difficult exercise. And suddenly I realized that for me it is not difficult, it is just natural act. During 3years of yoga practice and deep learning I was taking out of boxes a lot of old stuff that I collected last 40 years, and when I emptied the old and unnecessary, I could fill with new, light, and clear.  Or just with nothing. Who needs the full boxes, after all?

Take your cupboards, take your boxes, take your mind and see if it is not overloaded by old dresses, labels and prejudices. Make the Spring cleaning and see, how lighter you will feel.