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Dear friends,

It is with deep gratitude that I invite you all to participate in ShivaRatri 2013 in Ashland, Oregon. The last time I organized ShivaRatri (2011), so many people benefited that I am tearfully grateful to once again have the energy to offer this to the community (and to all the beings beyond Ashland who will benefit from this offering). Please consider joining us that night for chanting, and/or signing up to be a sponsor for the event. This year’s ShivaRatri will begin at 9:00pm on Saturday night, March 9^th at Oasis, A Healing Arts Sanctuary & Community Gathering Place, and it will be a fundraiser for Rogue Valley Farm to School.

It’s All Good In The Serpent’s Hood… Featuring Krsna Deva, Beloved & The Pure Love Band, Andy Bayliss, Vivek, Ken Abbott, Amma's Ashland Satsang, and other kirtan artists… We will enjoy 11 hours of call-and-response singing on Maha ShivaRatri, the Great Night of Lord Shiva, who is adorned with snakes, and who represents Destruction (of unhealthy attachments, desires, patterns) & the Transformation that allows for the emergence/creation of Inner Bliss, Non-Attachment, and Peace. Chant with us all night, or join us for the evening and/or morning hours. $8-$28(+) cash donation at the door.

As I continue working on other details for the night (such as who will sell some good coffee!), I am seeking sponsors to help cover the initial costs and to ensure that a good amount of funds will go to Rogue Valley Farm to School. If you would be willing to contribute, please do so by February 19^th to have your name (and/or the name of your business or project) listed on the event flyers.

You can contribute by using the “Donate” button on this website store, or by mailing me a check (email Teja for mailing address). If you need your donation to be tax deductible, please send a check (to Teja) written to Rogue Valley Farm to School. However, it is my hope that some of you won’t need that and will write your checks to Teja Shankara (or donate on this store), so I can use that money to cover the event costs (rent, sound, flyer design and printing, and possibly some black hoodie zipper sweatshirts with a cobra design), and after the event I will be happy to provide a full detailed accounting of all money received, spent, and donated to Rogue Valley Farm to School.

So! Time is of the essence, so please donate today!

May all beings know the Peace of the Star-Fire Realms of Shiva Consciousness!

Namaste, I bow to the Divine in you that is also in me,

Yogini Tejaswini

Cobra snake design by Gaelyn Larrick from her villa in Ubud, Bali!

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In a recent blog article (“Tejaswini is Tipped Over the Tipping Point of the Transformation”), I shared how it’s easier for me to go back into bliss these days… and today I just want to clarify what I meant there… I was not saying that I am in bliss all the time: au contrair! I was saying that when I go through the usual contracted painful states, that most of us humans regularly cycle through, it’s just easier to get back into bliss than it used to be…

So this week, my enjoyment of the Bliss state has been surely interrupted… On Tuesday morning, while driving to work, I got stuck in snow and ice while turning left at a light. Fortunately the very nice gal in the big truck behind me offered to bump me forward, and it worked and I carried on my teary way…

Compared to the incredibly awful tragedy in Connecticut last week, I realize that me getting stuck for a few minutes wasn’t that big of a deal, but somehow it really shook me up and triggered a lot of anger and despair… and I’ve been “fighting off” that not-so-cute contracted state ever since!

The thing is, I just really do not like winter. I’ve lived in Ashland, Oregon for almost 20 years, and each year the winter gets more unbearable for this body that longs to be warm year-round. (As soon as my boys graduate from high school, I plan to move to a warm climate, but that is still 5.5 years away!)

So anyway, as the Winter Solstice approached, I planned to ritualize it, despite my poor attitude about the cold harsh winter… So after work on Friday (December 21^st), I chanted the ancient peace prayer from India (that Amma recently requested we all sing each morning and evening)… I chanted it over and over along with Mukti, on their CD “Light of the Sun”. And I cooked a pot of brown rice, and wore white… and honestly, I felt sad the whole time…

So then that night, when I got in bed, just as I was falling asleep, I felt this incredible bliss of dissolving, as if my physical body (with all its wintry aches and pains) was dissolving away, and I thought ‘Oh yes, death take me now – let me dissolve into the bliss of the realms beyond this physical realm’, and that thought woke me up and within an instant my mind spiraled down into negative thoughts about how hard it is to be here in this realm, especially in the cold winter. So then I was awake and crying, but I soon fell asleep… and Saturday morning I awoke remembering that bliss of dissolving and that rude ‘awakening’ and I just walked around my temple cottage crying and feeling so sad…

And then I remembered that I am Yogini Tejaswini, who is tipped over the tipping point of the transformation! So I turned on my colorful cheery faux fir tree lights, cooked another pot of brown rice, dressed in white and gold, lit candles, and sat down to read with a cup of hot green tea… And ahhhh, a little bliss snuck up my spine and brightened my weary winter soul… 

And so it goes, on and on we cycle through bliss and sorrow, joy and grief, happiness and pain… Many of us, anyway…

May all beings be comforted in times of sorrow. May suffering and the root of suffering dissolve into the Radiant Healing Light of Shiva Consciousness and Bliss. May all beings have food, clothing, shelter, and peaceful sleep. May all beings be happy and free.

Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu.

Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi.

May all the beings in all the worlds be happy and at peace.

Yogini Tejaswini

Photos of Yogini Tejaswini and her cottage temple taken by Teja Shankara.

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Today is 12-12-12, and that date has such a nice ring to it, that I just have to post a bit of cheery inspiration… Recently, Amma (the “hugging saint” from India, who is one of the world’s top ten religious leaders, along with the Pope and the Dalai Lama), asked that people pray the ancient peace prayer for at least 5 minutes each morning and 5 minutes each evening. I began doing this practice as soon as I heard about it at our Amma Satsang on December 1^st, and it’s a wonderfully satisfying practice that brings peace to my being and also sends peace out to the Whole Web of Life.

Please join me in this simple practice… you can sing this prayer sitting up in bed, or while doing household chores… Sing line 1 one time, then keep repeating the second line over and over until you are ready to finish, and then sing the last line (Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi) one time… then you can say the translation out loud in English: May all the beings in all the worlds be happy and at peace. Click on the prayer below to link to a short video of Amma singing it with a tear rolling down her cheek. Here is the full prayer:

Om Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu

Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi

May All the Beings in All the Worlds Be Happy and At Peace.

Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi!

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of Teja’s colorful faux fir tree with Ma statue by Teja Shankara.

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In November 2012 I was interviewed by Dr. Krishna Gokani on his TV show The Art & Awareness of Happy Health. Now Dr. Krishna has given me permission to show that video on my YouTube channel. Topics include daily spiritual practices, meditation, grounding, cultivating gratitude, chanting while cooking to infuse the food with high vibrations, eating vegan, and choosing to be happy! I hope you enjoy the show… to view, please click on the title above or here: Teja on TV!

And… to continue following my Mystical & Mundane Musings, please visit this Teja Blog regularly, and enjoy transmissions of Shiva's Star-Fire Energies!

Radiant Healing Light to All,

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of Dr. Krishna and Teja Shankara taken by Nancy Burton, L.Ac.

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Okay, so this was seriously THE most delicious vegan Thanksgiving meal I’ve prepared yet. Since this was only my fourth vegan Thanksgiving, it is possible that it will get even better in the future, but for now I am savoring the memory of how great that food tasted!

Black beans: soaked overnight, rinsed very well, then cooked with many whole peeled garlic cloves (12 or 15?), along with garlic powder, ginger powder, black pepper, cocoa powder (Rapunzel organic non-alkaline), cinnamon, nutmeg, sea salt, coconut sugar, and maple syrup. Smooth, rich, and oh so yummy!

Baked pie pumpkin and baked acorn squash: topped with cinnamon and maple syrup. Steamed kale topped with organic highest lignan flax oil and Himalayan krystal salt.

And the very best part: my vegan version of “stuffing” (based on last year’s recipe “Teja’s Turkey-Free Thanksgiving Vegan Delight”). This year I put thyme instead of oregano and I added some sunflower seeds. And I baked it 45 minutes instead of 40, so it was extra crispy and tasted so amazing with the cranberry sauce I made. To a can of organic cranberry sauce (Woodstock brand, the one with whole cranberries), I added the following: raw ginger root, cut finely; orange zest; black pepper; cinnamon; nutmeg; and a sprinkle of Himalayan krystal salt. Oh, and on top of all that, I put some fresh Italian parsley.

It took me three hours to prepare this vegan feast. Three very enjoyable hours, during which time I had a candle glowing and incense burning (“Natural” from Amma’s Store – it smells soooo good!), and I was chanting sacred mantras to Lord Shiva, Ma Durga, and Kali Ma! When we sing while cooking, those healing sound vibrations infuse the food with so much Love!

I am feeling so much love and so much Gratitude this Thanksgiving evening. This was such a perfect day – my boys were here in the morning and then after they went to their Papa’s mid-day, I went for an exhilarating walk in the park before beginning my cooking rituals. Although there was a dear Amma friend who I would have liked to be with today (but I couldn’t invite him over because of my current Brahmacharini vow – more on that in a future blog), I chose to be alone for the Thanksgiving meal this year, and I very much enjoyed myself. Someday it will be nice to share this holiday with a bhakti vegan tribe, but until those beings appear in my field, I’d rather be alone on this day when so many people feast on dead birds.

I love all the bird beings, as I love all beings. I hold all life sacred.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

Photos of Teja’s Vegan Thanksgiving Meal and of Teja’s Happy Self taken by Teja Shankara.

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Dear friends,

Greetings from a gorgeous autumn time in Ashland! I have exciting news: this Saturday night you can watch my first television interview! The show was filmed last week when I was the happy guest on Dr. Gokul Krishna Gokani’s weekly show, “The Art and Awareness of Happy Health.” The show can only be viewed this Saturday night, and you can watch it on-line if you don’t have a TV!

The thirty-minute show will air this Saturday night, November 17^th, at 9:00pm PST.  If you live in the area, you can watch the show on Channel 15 (Rogue Valley Community Television) If you live elsewhere and/or if you don’t have a television, you can watch the show on their website – click here: www.roguetv.org and then click on Channel 15 (on right side under heading “Watch Live TV”), and then click on the play button in the middle of the screen.

Since this was my first television interview, I did fumble my words a few times, and there were a few things I forgot to say – like where to buy my books! I am just really not a marketer or promoter! (My pocketbook, Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living, is available on this website Store in both print and e-book versions, and the print version is also now available downtown Ashland at Soundpeace.)

I hope you all enjoy the show. Would love to hear your feedback! (And Datta, if you’re reading this, next time you offer a speaking workshop in Ashland, I really hope I’m available to attend it!)

I haven’t been much of a blogger this past year as I have been too busy working in my roles as medical assistant (at Morningstar Healing Arts), soccer mom, and raja yogini… Soon I intend to revise this website and do some blogging again… And I am also feeling some pretty strong internal nudges to organize another all-night chanting event for Maha ShivaRatri in March, 2013… We shall see what the New Year brings!

Om Shanti (Peace) and Radiant Shiva Light to all,

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of Dr. Gokul Krishna Gokani and Teja Shankara on the TV set taken by Nancy Burton, L.Ac.

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Dear friends,

From a bliss-inspired state, I am writing to share my excitement about Pranafest, a kirtan-yoga event that will manifest on September 28-29-30^th here in Ashland at the Jackson WellSprings! When I first saw the list of kirtan artists – including my beloved Guru-brother Jai Uttal, Wah!, Donna De Lory, Prema Mayi, C.C. White, and more – I thought, ‘I have to go to that… but I don’t have the money.’ Well, the Universe thinks it’s pretty funny that I still have those kinds of thoughts, so for Its own amusement, It (the Universe) allowed me to think that way for a few days… until Friday night, when I suddenly had to go on-line and buy my ticket! After buying the ticket, I said out loud, “Okay, Universe, now please send me that $90!” To which the Universe just laughed, knowing that It will send me the exact money I need when I need it… (If the Universe inspires you to help out with my ticket, you can go to my website Store and buy my books and/or make a donation to my work… or if you’d rather send a donation the old-fashioned way, by snail mail, my address is Teja Shankara, 840 B. Street, Ashland OR 97520 U.S.A., which would both make me cry and give me a chuckle, since I often say this affirmation, “Every time I turn around, I get a check in the mail!”)

Well, after I purchased that Pranafest ticket, suddenly a huge creative energy stream got unleashed in my being, and for the first time in 2 ½ months, I got inspired to write something (this letter) for the Teja Blog. It was as if that choice point – of buying the ticket before having the money for it – released an incredible amount of excitement that was filled with so many Bliss streams. From that choice point, a whole download of creative inspirations landed in this mystic yogini! It was quite a lesson for me in remembering that when I do something for my soul, the Universe smiles upon that, and rewards me with so much more than I’d asked for… 

So, since the last blog I posted on April 29^th, “Purifying in the Fire of Change”, in which I announced that I wasn’t going to offer the Radiance Rising Circles again after all, so much has happened, it makes my head spin and it makes me wonder how we mere humans can hold so many things at once?! On May 2^nd, my beloved Grandma died. The night before she died, I was at a fire circle gathering hosted by my beautiful friends Howard and Sue (who are now also my bosses at Morningstar Healing Arts! ~ more on that later in this letter!), and from that place of deep connection with this sacred earth, I got to transmit a few Lalla poems (see below at letter’s end), I offered all my expectations to the Fire (and asked for Bliss!), and I prayed for my Grandma’s passing to be peaceful… and she died (in Indiana) in the morning hours while I was still sleeping… A few days later, while they were having the funeral, I had my own little memorial service for her: I played my harmonium and sang Hallelujah over and over, while looking at photos of her. It was a beautiful time of celebrating her 97 years and of feeling gratitude for all the wonderful wisdom she taught me through the way she lived her life, always enjoying the little things and being cheerful with others.

Shortly after my Grandma’s funeral, we found out that my little sister has cancer. This is the little sister L. (Larita) who I dedicated my pocket book to (Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living), and who I just simply adore… She is married to my youngest brother, Adam, and she gave birth to my first niece, Zoe, last spring. Since June 4^th, they have been juggling life with chemotherapy and a 15-month-old baby, so I have been sending them Reiki healing energies each day during my morning meditation. Also I have been creating little healing altars and photographing them to send to the family. To read what my brother recently wrote, click here: Living with Cancer.

As I send Reiki healing energies to others, I am also sending them into myself. A few months ago, I had some bloodwork done and found out the reason for my cycles of tiredness: my red blood cell, white blood cell, and platelet counts are all low… so I am now focusing on strengthening my bone marrow (the place that makes cells), through sleep, protein, liquid trace minerals, B vitamins, nettles tea, Vitamineral Green powder, sunshine, barefoot walking on the earth, and a pure, organic vegan diet. I am sometimes longing to live in a vegan bhakti tribe, but that will have to wait for a future time when my boys grow up and I can move to a warm climate!

Also this spring, I have re-connected with a beloved vegan friend, which has been the source of much growth in my being. I am ever grateful for him showing up in my life (again and again!), and I can’t really find the words with which to express the depth of the gratitude I feel for all the lessons and love I experience through our connection. 

One of the biggest lessons for me these past few months has been about letting go of expectations. This was especially true for me on Mother’s Day. I didn’t expect anything, so I was particularly delighted when my boys showed up with a beautiful card and delicious chocolate. The love I feel for my sons (and my nieces) just keeps getting deeper and deeper, and I am ever grateful for that experience. Zak, my 15-year-old, is still playing piano and making dubstep music, and he’s going to be in high school in the Fall! Gabe, my 12-year-old, is still playing violin and soccer, and now he’s taking German language lessons too! (They have an older half-brother, Sam, who lives in Germany, thus the interest in speaking German.) It is really amazing watching them grow into young men, and watching myself grow up with them – through my many roles such as “soccer mom” and “dude mom”.

As I’ve written about before, I continue to feel as though I am straddling two worlds: the world of householder and the world of mystic yogini. In the past I felt unsettled about that straddling act, but recently I have found a comfortable balance and I am appreciating the way the two worlds support and heal each other within my being. My sadhana (spiritual practice) is ever sure and I am seeing more and more fruits (of practice) in my daily life. When people say to me, “You are so radiant – I want what you have. What’s your secret?” I say, “I meditate and chant (sing sacred Sanskrit mantras) every day!” 

One of my favorite daily practices is my morning study-with-tea-time (See “A Vegan Yogini’s Time-Out-of-Time Spiritual Practice”), and for the past few months I have been reading Tulasidasa’s Shri Ramacharitamanasa, which has been purifying me on all levels. I am particularly enjoying the image of Lord Rama as the orchestrator of all the lilas, “divine plays”, happening with us mortals… Here are a few passages illustrating that:

“He who wins the favour of that juggler (Rama) is never deluded by his stage-trickery.”

“The universe, Uma, says Shiva, springs into being and is again dissolved at the play of Rama’s eyebrows.”

I absolutely love being immersed in Tulasidasa’s world. Through reading his version of the Ramayana, I once again have many questions surfacing (see “Issues with Rama” and “Back in Rama Bhakti”), as well as incredible inspirations flooding my being with Bliss. One very poignant experience I am having as I read this holy book, is of Sita being the Earth and Rama being the Sun, and I am feeling that union of Earth and Sun within my own body and being. Lately when I am chanting to Sita and Rama and Hanuman, I find myself crying with love for God, because the experience of daily devotional practices is taking me deeper into my own heart, to a place where the Love is so deep it brings tears… After 20+ years of crying over earthguys, and almost 10 years of praying to cry over God instead, I am witnessing that transformation actually happening! And it feels so good to cry with love for God!!!!

Last summer I prayed and prayed to my Gurus (Ammachi and Neem Karoli Baba-ji) to bless me with Dharmic Right Livelihood, and I am so happy to say that little by little that prayer is being answered. Since Amma’s birthday (what an auspicious day to begin!), I have been working at Morningstar Healing Arts as a medical assistant. I never would have imagined myself taking blood pressures and giving tetanus shots, but now that I’ve been doing this work for almost ten months, I can’t imagine not doing it! It is the perfect work for me, as it brings together everything I’ve done and learned previously, and it is such a great opportunity for me to fulfill my longing for seva (service). Hearing story after story (from the patients who I check into the treatment rooms) has been such a blessing, as it has given me a much bigger perspective about how my little life fits into the whole of existence. I absolutely love the work; I only wish that it was full-time, rather than only 19 hours/week!

Since that work is not full-time, the Universe has sent some additional work that could not be more dharmically aligned for me. It is the quintessence of dharma for this yogini! My dear soul sister, Ananda Foley, as the representative for The LaChapelle Library, has hired me to begin work on a book of the teachings of David LaChapelle, who was her life partner for six years (until he left the body on July 21^st, 2009), and who was our spiritual teacher. When she first asked me to begin gathering materials for a book of the teachings that came through him, I saw this image of all the streams of love that flowed in and out of his heart, between him and all the hundreds of beings whom he served… so for now we are calling this project “Heart Streams Through David”…

And, each time I sit down to transcribe someone’s notes or a recording of a talk that David gave, the content amazingly applies to exactly what I’m personally going through that day. It’s as if David is still teaching me directly from somewhere beyond this physical realm! Whilst typing, some days I laugh and some days I cry, and some days I experience huge confirmations for my spiritual process. Like last Thursday, for example, I typed the following words that David said: 

“… where it shows up in our personal process is a continuous tendency to choose pain over joy. And it’s very magnetic and very addictive. So it’s just a little easier to go back to our crunch place than it is to like “ahhh”… But once the bliss muscles get developed better, then it actually is easier to go the other way, and then you’re like tipped over the tipping point of the transformation.” 

After I typed that, I read it aloud several times, and I was overjoyed to reflect that in the past year I have tipped over the tipping point of the transformation! I used to be so addicted to pain, but in the past nine months, I have really shifted and now, through all my expansions and contractions, it is easier for me to go to bliss than to fall back into pain. Hallelujah for that!

What has happened for me, I see now, is the cumulative effects of all the daily spiritual practices are bearing fruit, and I now have a very strong base of Gratitude, Groundedness, and God-connection underlying everything. David LaChapelle taught me so much about the pathways to Bliss, and now that I am more easily slingshotted into Bliss than into pain, I know that David must be smiling from somewhere… he knew that this transformation was possible, and now I do too… and it’s possible for everyone who is willing to sit still and go within! The work of spiritual practices definitely pays off with more and more Bliss!

As I’m coming to the end of this letter, I’m reflecting that it will probably be a while before I post another blog, because there is just so much going on in my life, and I can’t seem to fit blogging into the fullness right now… So I’d like to close this with the two Lalla poems that I transmitted at the May Day fire circle. May the Bliss of these poems enter your being, and may your life be transformed!

Playfully, you hid from me.
All day I looked.
Then I discovered
I was you,
and the celebration
of That began. 

There is a lake so tiny
that a mustard seed would cover it
easily, yet everyone drinks from this lake.
Deer, jackals, rhinocerouses, and sea elephants
keep falling into it, falling and dissolving
almost before they have time to be born.

~ Lalleshwari, 1320-1392, from Naked Song, Lalla translations by Coleman Barks

May all beings know the Bliss that they are.

Om Shanti (Peace), 

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of Tejaswini Bliss Inspired by Teja Shankara.

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After taking over a year's break, I am once again inspired to offer the weekly Radiance Rising Circles, beginning this Saturday, April 21^st, 2012. This time around, the circles will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Center, corner of 4th & C Streets in Ashland, on Saturdays 10:30am - 12noon. As before, the circles will be free of charge and open to everyone each week. The last time around, I offered the weekly circles for 15 months, and because there wasn't any money involved, the circles had a unique purity and sweetness about them. 

I am offering these circles because I really see the benefits of all the spiritual practices I do daily in my own life, and so I feel inspired to share the practices with others. It is very powerful to come together in prayer and meditation. I initially became inspired to offer circles after reading Book of Prayers by Mahatma Gandhi, who led interfaith prayer gatherings morning and evening each day, all throughout his political, revolutionary activities. In the book's introduction, Michael N. Nagler writes, "Squarely in the time-honored tradition of Hindu devotion, Gandhi accepted the validity of all forms of genuine worship. Love of God is love of God. At the same time, he explained, we need forms suited to our culture and even to our personality; since most of the ashramites were Hindu, so are most of the songs."

The simple chants that I lead, in a call-and-response singing format, are mostly Sanskrit chants that call upon Hindu gods and goddesses (primarily Shiva, Durga, Kali, Hanuman, Sita, Rama, Ganesha, and now I am learning a chant to Krishna), since I am a dedicated yogini on the Raja Yoga Path (with Ammachi and Neem Karoli Baba-ji as my Gurus), but I also sometimes lead chants to Green Tara, or chant Hallelujah, or chant for Peace... I am just a beginner at playing the harmonium: I had never played a musical instrument in my life, so I have stickers on the keys with the appropriate letters, and I've just started taking lessons with Krishna Deva (Prema Mayi's son).... so the chanting that happens at these circles is not performance kirtan, but rather it's a co-creation with whoever shows up and sings... and it's great when someone shows up to drum along with me! I always bring a drum and bells, and I welcome people to bring drums as well.... also, if you think you can't sing, don't let that stop you from attending ~ singing from the heart is so beautiful, whether it's perfectly sung on key or not!

Each week, I bring a reading to share after the chanting and silent meditation. In selecting the readings, I tune in to what is most inspiring to me at the time, and also to what I sense might be needed by others. At the circles, we chant mantras with the chakras, going from the root up to the crown at the beginning of the circle, and then chanting back down to the root to close the circles feeling grounded. We also send the healing energies (created by the practices) out for healing and peace wherever they are needed... 

Each person attending these Radiance Rising Circles will be given a free copy of my pocketbook, Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living.

Radiant Cheers to the Spiritual Health of the human species on this Sacred Planet Earth!

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

Flyer for Radiance Rising Circles designed by Gaelyn Larrick, a bright artistic star shining in our midst! ~ Photo of Teja (on flyer) taken by Britt Magadini, another radiant being shimmering on the river of life!

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At the end of January, 2012, my teenage son and I were talking about how fast the first month had gone by, and I said, “If February goes this fast, we are all going to start getting dizzy.” So then, at the end of February, my son said, “I’m getting dizzy!” And now, I can hardly believe it is already the tenth day of March, and I am only just now getting around to writing this blog about my top three priorities for March!

Upon reflection, I see that I haven’t had time to write about these priorities since I have been so busy focusing on them. On the first day of the month, I wrote these three priorities in big letters at the top of the Amma wall calendar hanging in my kitchen: 

1.     Walk and stretch.
2.     Play harmonium and sing.
3.     De-clutter and clean.

These are goals that I’ve been writing about, over and over, in my journal, but then I haven’t been finding the time and motivation to actually do them. Somehow this month is different. I am actually going for walks in the trees, doing stretching exercises, playing my harmonium and singing, and cleaning out some things in this temple cottage. It feels so good to actually be doing these things, and I am filled with so much Gratitude for all the unseen support that must be giving me the boost of energy to do them!

What are your top three priorities for March? Hurry, quick, and decide or the month will be over and you’ll be pondering over the priorities for April instead!

May all beings be happy and free.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

Photo of the trees on my walks taken by Teja Shankara.

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