Hi Loves,
Are you moved? I am so moved after watching the inauguration yesterday. Tears from the heart welling up and pouring down the cheeks for the last 24 hours. I am in awe of the grace I witnessed and was grateful I was able to watch it LIVE. It truly feels like LOVE is guiding the way and the ego has taken backseat. Whewf!
My heart was swelling with all the talk of Unity. I was ecstatic to see so many empowered women being given spaces in the programming, including the young Amanda Gorman. Ahhhh……
After everything that happened at the capital two weeks ago I think most nervous systems have been on edge these last two weeks and my little inner worrier was up in the middle of the night the last three nights anticipating yesterday’s events. Grateful my friend Holly Jacobson gathered a group of us to have a virtual meditation before the event got going. Ground and settle. Every time the camera would pan out to the national guard, I would feel the deep grief of how divided we have become. The capacity for the human mind to dehumanize other humans and the suffering that that creates. I admire Love’s courage to show up at the capital yesterday morning anyway. And because of that courage, you can feel a fueling of hope for our nation. I find myself dancing, smiling, crying, all of it. I know we are in the infancy of our healing as a nation, but like Tessa says, “It’s a cool time to be alive, if we live through it.”
Like I heard yesterday, it feels like we are writing a new story for our country. I know that a lot of us liked the way things were, and we have attachments to the way they were. That is what the mind does, it clings to what we like. No one likes the loss and devastation that we all are experiencing, but it’s also revealing what has been ignored for way too long and light is finally being shed on what has needed our attention. President Biden laid it out for us. This is the time to put our egos aside, come together, roll up our sleeves and get to work. And it starts with each one of us. What do you want your story to be? What do you want the story for our nation to be? What do you want the story for humanity to be? What do you want the story of our earth to be? If we give LOVE the driver seat, what will it all look like?
So I promised once we got the Men going that I would put another series out. I have decided to take a break from Yoga for Fulfillment where we follow the teachings from Rod Stryker’s book The Four Desires and instead offer an 8 Week Series using the book, What’s Your Story? A Journal for Everyday Evolution by Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond. I heard a podcast with Tami Simon interviewing the authors and all the bells went off to use this journal to hold the container for transformation. There is nothing I love more than bringing together folks to do transformational work. Yes, there will still be some movement practices, yoga teachings and meditation, but I want us to spend a little more time writing. As difficult as it is for myself, I find it to be therapeutic. If you are at all called to being held accountable to write more, I hope you will sign up. If you are at all called to heal aspects of your being, I hope you will sign up. If you are at all called to write a new story for yourself, your family, your community, your world, I hope you will sign up.
Here’s to us coming together in celebration of love in all the different ways it presents itself! This is unity.
Love to all of you!
Namaste,
Shari
P.S. Please take a 5-10 minute sit with the mudra pictured above. Can you sense the feeling of oneness?
P.S.S. Tomorrow morning I am holding The Practice and we are celebrating the light. Respond if you would like to join and I will send you the link.
Write Your Story
An 8 Week Virtual Series
Led by Shari Beard
Expect Somatic Movement, Meditation, Accountability, Conscious Company and of course Writing!
I am sure there will be laughter and tears as well.
Wednesdays 7:00-8:30PM
Feb. 3rd thru March 24th
Sliding Scale $160/$200/$240
Sign Up by Venmo @Shari-Beard-1
The Practice
Friday Mornings 8:00-10:00 on Zoom
$1-$20 Donation
Venmo @Shari-Beard-1 to Sign Up
