• Shiva Rea “Fluid Power/Trance Dance” www.shivarea.com
• Seane Corne “ Off The Mat Into The world” www.seanecorne.com
• John Friend “ Anusara Yoga” www.johnfriend.com
• Baron Baptiste ”Journey Into Power” www.baronbaptiste.com

BOOKS

• Into Thin Air John Krakauer
• Touching My Fathers Soul Jamling Tenzing Norgay
• Rowboat in a Hurricane Julie Angus
• The Inner Tradition Of Yoga Michael Stone
• Red Tent Anita Diamant
• Women Who Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Any of Paulo Coelho’s books

There is a lot of yogic lore about the process of living fully – and there is one piece of lore in particular that I find very helpful. Yogis believed that every human being is born with a special gift. This gift, for each of us, is a doorway to a fulfilled life. It is the doorway to our own particular path, our vocation, our calling- our sacred duty. Yogis call this vocation our dharma. All of life is seen as an opportunity to realize and manifest this unique calling-this unique dharma.

Early yogis had a beautiful way of thinking about the importance of the gift. For these yogis, the whole world was seen as a vast net woven together in space and time- not unlike our notion of the quantum field. This was called Indra’s Net, and at the intersection of each warp strand and woof strand of this net is a jewel. The jewel represents an individual human soul. And it is that soul’s duty–sacred calling– to hold together its particular part of the web by being its own unique jewel-like self. In this way, the whole universe holds together as one great interlocking field. But it only hangs together if each one of plays our particular role, enacts our unique dharma. It only works if each one of us is completely and authentically ourselves. It only works if each one of us is completely who we were born to be.

— Stephen Cope/copyright “Kripalu”registered trademark

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