Nectar Splatters

After a perfectly blissful birthday (yesterday!) I am still riding the wave of peace and love after day two at Yoga Festival Toronto, an inspiring gathering of local yogis and practitioners who create my beautiful city Sangha

Susan Richardson guided my body to embrace the delicate interplay of breath and alignment
as though I was an  unfolding origami paper...
I entered class with all my complexity, my form and structure firmly entrenched in my mind. 
My creases straight and my angles sharp, holding space. 
The expression of my postures on the surface of my body;
the blooming gardenia in two dimensions.

Close your eyes.
Allow the back of your neck to soften.
The inner ear elongates.
The root of your tongue soft, all the way to the base of the clavicle.

Breathe into the void behind your heart.
The empty space in the body.

Breathe.

Into the void.
The emptiness.

Open to possibility.
Dimensions rather than layers.
The ebb and flow of asana taking form around the breath.

"(s)He is the real Sadhu, who can reveal the form of the Formless to the vision of these eyes"

Kabir.  The son of a weaver.
Spider Clan.
Kindred souls meeting after 600 years

Chetana Panwar opened my heart to nirguna bhakti.
Formless Devotion
Discovering the ocean contained in a single raindrop
Within each cell the infinite resides without rules, without boundaries, without perception
Allowing my Self to experience embodiment of the Divine
on my own terms
as part of the whole
earth
air
fire
water

Closing my eyes
Dropping in to experience
Sweetness of the Nectar on my tongue
My body is my fullest expression
Without thought
or effort
Without interpretation

"Like a mute person who tastes a sweet thing ~ how can it be explained"

Moving into the flow of Shakti
Exploring the forms of the feminine with Karusia Wroblewski
Letting go of what my body knows and wants to know.
Creative passion, sexual, primal, necessary
Moving to the heartbeat of the drum
Swaying hips
Breasts lifted and proud
Eyes glittering

I am dancing the Divine
Durga the destroyer; fear my power
Lakshmi the provider; I am abundant and eternal
Saraswati; my lessons and learnings are gifts to share

"Behold my heart dances in the delight of a hundred arts and the Creator is well pleased"

I am born anew
I am only who I am at this moment
Free from the past,
Gone before the future arrives.