Sat Nam and Hola mis divine amigos!
Have you ever felt like your heart would burst with joy? I cannot put into words what is happening inside of me, but the best I can do for you is this: yummy. I imagine my real test will be how will I feel when I am home and “regular” life kicks back in, but I will share with you a secret I have experienced: that feeling is coming from something inside not outside of me! You have it too and might be having it right this moment.
Stars In my eyes! Valpairiso, Chile
I am in Miami/Hollywood, FL right now, after two weeks in Santiago, Chile. My dear friend and fellow Kundalini yogini Fateh has welcomed me into her gracious hacienda. I have been able to meet up with many good friends here, share in my “sister” Jiwan’s son’s 17th birthday and to attend some amazing yoga classes, all kinds, Kundalini and Hot vinyasa. We begin Mind and Meditation Level II on Friday for 3 days. A really beautiful way to transition back into life here.
Chile was muy interesante! Santiago turned out to remain a hustling and bustling metro area, we mastered the metro, museums, restaurants and found the Artisans Mercado where a multitude of native craftspeople worked and sold their wares. Not as many textiles as Bolivia, but a lot of leather, glass, jewelry, copper and musical instruments. One day I hiked up to the highest point in the town, the small mountain of St. Christobal and viewed the expansive city stretching out below.
One of our best times was our trip out to Vina del Mar, a beautiful beach town, easy bus ride for a day on the beach. It was still early spring so we did not venture into the water, but a very large pelican ventured over to us!
The three women from my school and I became very close and ended up sharing many dinners and adventures, the most fun of all of this traveling has really been meeting and making new friends! I am in awe of the common and loving threads that tie us all together,no matter where we are from or where we are headed! Hearts meet and laughter is shared and bonds form. It is so beautiful. Now I have great adventures awaiting me, when I head off to visit these friends in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Norway, Holland, and England/Scotland!! So many places!
Yesterday I finally got to reconnect with one of my dearest friends and she asked me about my trip. I reflected and shared with her what I want you to know. I am and am not who I was when I began. A layer of ego is shed, a layer of shyness or rather inhibition is gone. A deep and honest interest in knowing more about others has grown in me, a part of me that I never knew existed has come out, and that is the feeling of a letting go of worry. All worry. A fun and deep sense of trust has manifested within me about all things.
Traveling and being at the mercy of so many other controls has empowered me to let go of trying to control and opened me to allowing and being. Being. That is it, Being. Now, I see when I am headed into a fearful place, and I can more easily let go and simply allow. I trust that everything, I mean everything that happens is exactly as it is supposed to be.
Of course I still make plans, do my part to be responsible for what I can and then I let go. Most of all, I have found myself really living in the absolute present moment and not moving ahead or behind in my mind like I used to. It has been a practice for a long time to do this, but it has been a “practice”, now it seems to be natural, just what it is. Geez, it is so much more relaxing! My neck has not hurt in 3 months!!!!
The Feminine Divine, Museo de Arte, Chile
That is the Being, that is the Joy! When I need to plan, I plan, when I need to work, study, organize or whatever, I just do it. I talk less, I take in more and I feel more than ever before.
I will move on up to Tampa on Monday to be with my family for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday! The final week of this amazing and very blessed 3 month journey to my heart. My daughter will join us as we remember the many souls who struggled and flourished to enable us to live in the greatest country on Earth, as far as I am concerned! We are so blessed!
My deepest heartfelt intention is to share in our classes these “ways and means” with you when I return. I bring to you messages from the Elders in Bolivia, the winds from Chile, the hearts of our wise and masterful teachers and most of all, from my heart. There has never, ever been a more important time for us to exalt ourselves and to ground and clear our energies.
The sacred spiral, circa 800 A.C.E.
The time is now, there is no other and we will exalt our spirits together, beginning Wednesday, Dec. 2nd. I hope you will be there for our first classes back together: Wednesday morning at 9:30 am for Vinyasa and 7:30 pm for Kundalini Yoga, in Annapolis.
Thank you more than words can express to Diane, Eleanor and Kim for holding the space for me in class. You are amazing and divine women!
Also, on another very, very exciting front, I will be joining with three internationally esteemed Kundalini teachers to offer you a Level I Kundalini Teacher Training Course beginning in April 2010. My role is to help organize the course and I will mentor with these teachers so that in the future I can become a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainer. Complete information will be up on my website very shortly and I strongly encourage you to consider this program for your own personal transformation, regardless of whether you have ever thought of teaching or not. The course is one of the most powerful means of personal growth, exploration and expansion available.
Muchos besos y bendiciones,
In the light with love,
Denise Kirpal Kaur
