The Journey

Last August I attended a 5 day self-leadership course called 'The Journey,' run a by a man whose inspirational talk I had attended a month previous at Buddhafields Festival. There was something about this man and the message he shared that really spoke to my heart. It was at a time when I had taken a career break and was in the void of not knowing where to go with my life. And it got me thinking...reflecting deeply about some fundamental questions which perhaps should have been asked of us when we were at school. 

The ethos of this course was to guide you to your own inner knowing to find out how you truly wanted to live this life - how/where to find the joy of being in service to the world, in the way that is unique to you.

There were 3 core questions at the heart of this process...What do you most deeply and profoundly love? What are your unique gifts/talents(...which each of us have)? What are your deepest responsibilities(...is it with your child for example, or do you also have a responsibility to your neighbour's child...where does it end?)

As I found out, this is not necessarily something that can be answered in a week, but is something to keep coming back to. But I found out something which I already knew and that was - somewhere deep inside, I have a profound love of nature...I love the Earth. But my question was now, 'how to be of service to nature?'

My gifts and talents didn't seem of relevance, and what I came back to 6 months later was to offer something in my career/purpose in life, which was to do with connecting to self - in order that one can live a life of greater richness and fulfillment. A life lived from ones own centre rather than that of an external source or influence. This feels like living from a place of power and authenticity. But what has this to do with nature?

I now see clearly that the yoga I share is especially intertwined with re-connecting with nature and her rhythms as a way of 'coming home'. When we re-connect with nature, we naturally live more in tune with her cycles, more in alignment with our own well-being, and also the well-being of the earth. 

I write this just after having re-visited a Mac Macartney Ted Talk.  He is the man who inspired me at the festival last summer.