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It’s easy to see how the droplet in the ocean is the ocean and still the droplet, being both the ocean and the individual drop at the same time.

It’s a little harder for us in this ocean of humanity and living creatures to see ourselves as the whole of living creation and an individual ego or person all at the same time.

Yoga and meditation can help us experience this merging of ourselves with all of life while still being this distinct person. We can begin to see and feel ourselves as the one in the many.

As the common allegorical story goes, it’s easy to know what part of the elephant we are and not realize we are all the entire elephant at the same time.

The practices can help us clarify the person we are and how we are simulataneously connected to all of life.

We are this distinct droplet in the ocean of humanity and life and, at the same time, all humanity and life.

The practices can bring this experience alive for us, helping us find our place in this world!

Addressing the chakras or energy centers in our being through yoga and meditation helps coordinate and align them to work together better, strengthening our sense of being and peace.

By doing this, we literally run better. It’s like going in for a tune-up.

Hummmmmm!

Our mind grows quieter at a sunrise or sunset, at majestic powerful sites such as the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall.

Wow!

We grow quieter seeing beauty–a stunning rose, a rainbow, a cool cloud….

When we are Wowed, we grow quieter.

For me, yoga and meditation are a tour de force of this Wow factor. The practices can open all of us to feeling more Wowed by life in so many ways.

Wow! Who among us couldn’t use a little more of this in our lives?!

Amidst the dirt of our lives are many golden moments that shine. We all know this.

Yoga and meditation help us pan for gold in the present, the moment we are living now.

This means having a broader vision… seeing the dirt as also necessary, as a means to carry the gold, as the stuff of soil that grows our forests and gardens and wildflowers.

The practices help us acquire the vision or perspective that unearths gold even in that which initially does not shine.

Golden, right?!

Though we are not water animals, we live in an ocean–an ocean of consciousness.

From our center, we witness and exist in this vast universe of being, of awareness.

Consciousness takes form as human beings so that we can be aware of this.

Why?

The sages say this is God’s sport, the universal’s game with itself.

Meditation and yoga are great tools to explore this game.

Play ball!!

Joy has a rippling effect that spreads outward like sound waves from a gong.

Through yoga and meditation, we pivot or turn towards joy. We start to vibrate more with joy, and its waves ripple out into the world.

Can you feel it?

When we practice our yoga and meditation with love, then in one step, even with just one pose or a few breaths, we turn or pivot towards love.

Such a lovely step!

The life force is teeming, scintillating… bubbly. Think champagne, effervescent. Celebratory.

Through yoga and meditation, we drink of this and come to know and feel life’s celebratory quality–to be honored, respected, and loved.

Cheers to life!

Yoga and meditation can bring us home

to the depths within us

that know no bounds.

This boundless nature has taken form as each and every one of us. The formless that knows no bounds takes form as you and me, as all of us.

Through the practices, we explore these depths.

We cannot hold onto our center.

There is no velcro to hold us fast nor any handles to grip onto.

However, the center is always with us amidst life’s tumult. It loyally sticks with us, no matter what. At times, we are the ones who lose touch with it.

Through yoga and meditation, we can remember this center, we can return to it again and again, and we can deepen our relationship with it. We learn to love this center, the universal within us all.

No, we cannot hold it.

But with gratitude, joy, and love, we can behold it.