The dark night of the soul–An initiation into spiritual adulthood

Introduction
I was twenty-two years old when I fell in love with Spirit. I had felt the presence of this mysterious, ineffable other dimension many times throughout my childhood and teenage years, mostly during times spent in nature hiking, rock climbing, or swimming in the ocean. During these times of communion with the natural world, I remember a sometimes vague, sometimes acute sense that there was something indescribably sacred, huge, and mysterious that permeated everything in the world. I would at once feel both a great longing to know it, as well as a deep knowing that even if I didn’t understand what it is, that it most certainly is. Like a child fascinated by things in the adult world that I did not understand, I resolved to not try to figure it out, but to simply enjoy knowing it was there. Growing up not going to church and not having “Spirit” or “God” ever come up in conversation at home, I didn’t have much encouragement to pursue my personal relationship with this mystery. Therefore, my relationship stayed at this childlike level until, at twenty-two, after two years of teaching yoga in college, I began my national certification as a yoga teacher in order to deepen my own practice and my teaching.

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Moving toward the light

This week I had two dreams with Barack Obama in them. In the first dream, Obama has appointed me as White House yoga teacher. (By the way, I love this idea!) In the dream I was honored that I was chosen to do such important work, and though I was a bit intimidated, I remember [...]

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