what is your birthright?
"Despite illness of body or mind, in spite of blinding despair or habitual belief, who you are is whole.
Let nothing keep you separate from the truth. The soul, illumined from within, longs to be known for what it is.
Undying, untouched by fire or the storms of life, there is a place inside where stillness and abiding peace reside.You can ride the breath to go there.
Despite doubt or hopeless turns of mind, you are not broken. Spirit surrounds, embraces, fills you from the inside out. Release everything that isn't your true nature. What's left, the fullness, light and shadow, claim all that as your birthright."
-Danna Faulds
Today I arrived at the Kripalu Yoga Center in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The opening session of my yoga teacher training program was easily one of the most beautiful places I have ever been emotionally, as well. I look forward to sharing here whatever fraction of my experience I am capable of transferring. For tonight, I am simply content to have a lovely roommate, see that I really can access LJ from the cafe, rejoice that the first six hours of my four weeks here have seen me begin to adjust healthily, bask in the glow of that first session and my apparently awesome teachers, and get my butt to bed so I will survive my 5:45am start tomorrow. I wish I could speak more to the quotation I have given you today, but at the same time I feel it stands alone better. I discovered it in my guide to Kripalu yoga during the car ride here today, and I knew before I'd even finished reading it that I would want to share it with you. I hope it resonates with you as it does with me.