Altar

"'Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again." 
~ Joseph Campbell

At the beginning of every yoga class, there is a statement, translated and not:  "Now is the time for yoga."

"Now is the time for Beauty." echoed in my thoughts, as splashes of light in the forest called me to a sunny day.  On any given morning, there are many things I "need to do", but when "Now is the time for Beauty", Beauty is what I need.

Eventually I came upon an altar, its origins unknown.  Perhaps it was a child at play.  Perhaps it was an adult.  Is there really any difference?

"American Veda" author Philip Goldberg leading Saturday workshop

Philip Goldberg, the author of the award-winning book American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West, will be leading a workshop Saturday, 1-4 PM, at The Movement Center.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Philip on my radio program The Frontier Beyond Fear, in which he described a pivotal moment in history when the Beatles went to India in 1968.

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