Okay craziest life I have. Saturday was so amazing. I went running in my neighborhood and starting meeting all of my neighbors. I am SO GLAD we have this yearly yard sale bc otherwise I would never meet my neighbors! My neighbor is a fellow follower and I ended up hanging out at her house for a while! As I do anywhere I go, I made myself comfortable and started hanging out and met this incredible woman named Wyoma who teaches African Dance healing. Yes. Beautiful woman who has aged so incredibly gracefully with beautiful gray in her dreds. Rosa and I both could not believe that she started practicing yoga when she was 18! So she invited me to this event tonight at Brookline Booksmith for her friend Becky Thompson's book release, Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for Those Healing from Trauma. I figured why not, it was right in my work neighborhood and I had nothing else going on. Well, talk about amazing divine appointments!!!! We're sharing all kinds of stories and I'm sharing my experiences in the Protestant and Catholic ashrams in India. Then at the end, my new friend H is writing her name for someone else and she has the same last name of this girl that I used to run track with in high school!!!! It was such an usual last name I say, hey do you know S? And she's like YEAH THAT'S MY SISTER!!!! I really couldn't get over it. She was saying that there were parts of her experience growing up 7th Day Adventist that were really constricting and now she was learning about Buddhism but she really missed the structure and community of church. Wow well I just pray that Jesus can touch her again. She and Wyoma were saying that they didn't want an intermediary to THE SOURCE and that they wanted direct access. But I said to H, I believe that Jesus is the source, so He's not really an intermediary. I just get so excited when God weaves our lives together in this tapestry.
Not only that, the author invited me to Simmons to speak about yoga and social justice because of the work that I am doing with Boston Rescue Mission with ex-addicts and ex-convicts. Oh man. So on fire. It's like this academic, activist healing space and circles that I used to run in that are so beautiful and alive and full of this community spirit that I really miss. But I gotta have Jesus. I really gotta have Jesus.
Not only that, the author invited me to Simmons to speak about yoga and social justice because of the work that I am doing with Boston Rescue Mission with ex-addicts and ex-convicts. Oh man. So on fire. It's like this academic, activist healing space and circles that I used to run in that are so beautiful and alive and full of this community spirit that I really miss. But I gotta have Jesus. I really gotta have Jesus.
http://www.amazon.com/Survivors-Yoga-Mat-Stories-Healing/dp/1583948260
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