When I feel stuck in my life, and am challenged to understand the next step or direction to take, I go to my subconscious mind through the blank slate of a new vision map.  If you have never tried making a vision board, I would highly suggest it!  It’s a way for the deepest dreams and desires might start to dislodge from some of the interior corners of the spirit so that they might begin to take manifested form in the physical world.

On day #3 of the Monteverde Yoga Teacher Training and Community Building, we collectively sit on the floor at Rio Shanti, surrounded by magazines and images that wait for our heart to place them on our blank slate.  The light of the sun had already passed for the day, creating a womb-like feel for our creation.  It was a sight:  8 grown women on our knees, pouring over pictures, sharing scissors, glue sticks and modge podge while creating a bigger picture that might somehow give us the insight of what the mind may have the challenge of sharing with the heart.

By the end of the 2 hour block of time, the images had assembled themselves on our individual pages.  Eight unique stories waiting to be told.  The next day, we meet again and look into each others pictures to unfold the stories into words.  As we approach each picture, we add to the story of our friend, until a full rotation around the circle creates a story that we may not have been aware of on our own.

I share my story with you.

Sitting in the pool, staring off into the distance, she dreams of the life that is yet to come.  Her beginnings humble, and through hard work and learning to surrender, she achieves extraordinary results in her 38 years, but she still yearns for more.  This is her chance to begin anew.

She decides to pack up all of her material possessions and travel to a place that will allow her to do just that.  Finding a place to be closer to nature and move at peace with herself and the great divine.  The place is a forest that is full of potential and opens doors to a whole new world. 

Could she really be that brave?  What would come her way? Could she trust the powers of the universe to show her the path? Had she chosen this place wisely? Thus, she began.

And…it was so.  Already, forces were at work beyond her knowing.  Life’s web was spinning its cycles and this one would be one she would never forget.  The wind whirls around her but she feels strong, as if she is already rooted in the perfect space…that she is growing into this windy forest. She grasps the earth with her fingers and curls her toes around branches above and becomes the trees wild energy, moving but steady, permanent.  She feels the power in her knuckles to stop the world’s spin and the strength in the curve of her feet to push the sun out of the solar system.

She stays this way for what could be minutes, hours, days or years.  All is pure energy. Neither time nor thought have any meaning. And then, suddenly, she was everywhere and nowhere.

Everywhere and nowhere with no sleeping bag.  Creature comforts became a thing of the past.  Could she REALLY do this??  These forest people are a little crazy! The might be dangerous.  What if they began to suck her life force from her? Could she stay centered, hold her handstand or would they make her feel too rootless?

Only time will tell and the universe will beckon once again…

And she lives happily ever after. 

The beginning…

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