A Siesta and So Much More
Earlier this year, I took a vacation in Mexico with my 17-year-old daughter. I wandered into a sundries store where I found a book in English: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. I flipped to the back. It describes the life of a high-profile trial lawyer who has a heart attack and almost dies in the middle of a closing argument in a packed courtroom. Then, he decides to leave the law and goes to India to study yoga and meditation. Was this God talking to me?
I read the book in two days, and decided it couldn't be anything else.
When I returned to San Francisco, I read every book and magazine about yoga I could find. I was searching for a group to go to India with, but at the time, India was unbearably hot—120 degrees (not to mention unsanitary.) It became clear that I wouldn't be able go—but I knew I could not wait for the weather to change for my own, personal transformation. Death was perched on my shoulder and I knew it.
That’s when I finally decided to act.
Comments
Just read your Yoga Journal write up and want to cheer you on... for selfish reasons, I must admit. I also have knee problems/pain and reading about Jason suggesting you use a table/chair/wall for support in poses was so liberating. Somehow I thought 'props' were limited to towels & padded bricks... but how do you fit in 8 practices a week? (1 with Jason, 3 group, 4 home--is that right?)
Posted by: Vid | January 27, 2007 08:28 AM
Act on what? Your health? What would India present that you can't find at home? Mexico is fab and I am glad you found the book but I find it interesting that transformation seems to be a place not a destination. Fair? Cheers Pasha
Posted by: Pasha | January 27, 2007 06:32 PM
Good luck on your journey! It sounds exciting and refreshing.
Posted by: *jeanne* | January 29, 2007 03:18 PM
How come you don't about your yoga practice?? How it's coming along?? What poses you find hard and which ones peaceful?? Are you even practicing???
Posted by: kris | February 2, 2007 01:23 AM
.... (it's been a great couple of weeks for me so may as well keep doing whatever I was doing, including following this blog!).. . The only surprising thing is that we don't hear God talking to us more often, given that our interaction with the Universe (which is, after all, all part of God) is 24/7...
God pursues us with the single-minded devotion of the long-lost lover, ever ready to move right in, share your toothbrush and rearrange your furniture... LOL
Posted by: Claudia | February 2, 2007 04:27 PM