Intro Video: I sang my song. Shake (chani) The same theme appeared. I had not been willing to admit that I was hurting, that I was sad, that I felt like I had lost something. That the outward structure of the practice had let me down.

 It’s common to find ourselves compelled to the mat during times we feel stuck, uncertain and not sure how to proceed. If we allow ourselves to trust in the support of the practice, we open to the possibility of what exists beyond the stuck place we find ourselves in and we begin to trust that what lies on the other side of our suffering might be worth the discomfort of moving through rather than running from. We gain faith that the answers to the questions we have are within and we become quiet enough to listen for them to be revealed.

We find the mat or the meditation cushion sometimes by choice, sometimes by no other choice but it is ultimately our willingness to seek the sacred in the most ordinary and unassuming of places that reminds us that joy and beauty and love exist all around us.