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| Hugging GuruGanesha! |
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| Chanting Muni Muni Mahamuni with Deva and co. |
I was never much of a concert person until I discovered the wonderful world of kirtan. There is something so amazing about being vibrated with music that is specifically designed to vibrate in an uplifting way.
Anyway.
I'll save the kirtan talk for later.
During the performance, Miten sang a very beautiful love song to his wife that had us all clutching at our chests and awwwwing.
But afterwards, it made me think - there aren't a lot of love songs about being single. Yes, love songs. There are songs about being single but they're usually angry/sad/bitter songs about the relationship you were in or that you want to be in. Mmmm hmm, shoulda put a ring on it.
It made me think about this blog and about the Yogis of All Shapes and Sizes everywhere. It's hard, it's really hard to speak out for the underrepresented without judgement of the overrepresented. I think the yoga world DOES need more champions of the Yogis of All Shapes and Sizes. But as we throw down the gauntlet we must at the same time strive to refrain from thinking we are better or worse for what we do and who we are and what we're capable of. We must avoid singing the Bitter Single Song about yoga. We, above all others, must avoid it because we are walking the yogic path which teaches us that there isn't anything to gain from judging, there isn't any happiness to be had by achieving or not achieving.
Our goal is to write love songs about being the yogis we are right now because we know that true happiness has nothing to do with our asana. The asana is only there to help us connect with the happiness that lies in the deep inner stillness within. Tomorrow, perhaps we will touch our toes, and the day after we may not. That will not change our love song to the Spirit Within.
Take from me what I want
Take from me what I do
Take from me what I need
Take from me everything that takes me from You
-Mirbai Ceiba
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