Sitting crosslegged by the only outlet I've found in the Fort Lauderdale Airport, halfway between California and Puerto Rico, catching up on emails and the amazingness of the last few weeks. Preparing by opening space and intention for the upcoming 6 months of sharing AcroYoga in Latin America with my co-teacher Justin...
I'm feeling the blessings pouring in and the realization of a dream I didn't know looked like this, but always knew it felt like this. All the years of working in rural communities in Latin America, volunteering, teaching, bringing in students, building schools, community centers, health clinics... eating plates of white rice and plantains. Teaching English to illegal and legal immigrants and yoga to mexican farmers in the United States... It's all coming to a point right now. I've done the work and it continues to change shape and form.
It's time to bring this practice that feels so light and so free, of building conscious loving community, to the pachamama (the earth mother), bless the soil and heal the earth that has been so tormented. Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina.
I am so liberated by this medium.
I bow to the lotus feet of Jenny and Jason, the humble founders and seed planters of this practice. Always stepping into their highest and sharing their journey with those who approach them with the same openness.
The moment that stood out for me at the First Annual AcroYoga Festival (www.acroyoga.org/festival) was the final event, as 200+ acroyogis created a vinyasa yoga mandala, breathing and moving together in pulsating connection. I felt a chill run through me with an awareness that this is the manifestation of a dream being completed, and the door opening for what this practice and festival will expand into, in the next year, 5 years, 10, 20... And the realization hit, of the auspiciousness of me being a part of this highly vibrational community, in this moment, of being invited to teach at this first festival, the begining of so much. Of constantly being invited to go deeper and higher and more fully into my true being, so others can feel this liberation and relief...
This does exist. True intentional, global community, it does exist. It is being practiced, it is happening, and it is dancing around this planet, because the beings here are thirsty for this.
Just until recently, I thought that what I truly desired wasn't possible, that I could get close to the feeling of manifesting exactly what I wanted, but would have to settle for less. Feeling less would still be really awesome...
My time in California, at the AcroYoga festival, in fairyland with the tall grandmother redwood trees, the stunning coast, Orr hotsprings, an AY General Immersion and adventuring with friends who treat each other as sweetly as they want to be treated...
It is clear that:
There is no settling for less than the dream.
There is a perfect fit with me and others.
There is a community that feels like my community in all of it's aspects.
There are teachers who are role models embodied.
~Let's clarify our dreams and play together to co-create manifestations of the one~
It has begun.
Love,
S
