Light, Darkness, Love

It was of lightness and darkness...and we talked of love and connection and inclusivity and community. This was the emotional balm after the seemingly harsh and beautifully intense practice. Our energies were melding and meeting in a strange dance, speaking in movements and breaths and nearness (as we close and open spaces in Downward Dog or lay with eyes closed in Savasana...)

This was the space where words could never do justice. We all felt so much...but beneath that and beyond that, we felt love - the tough kind that allows thoughts of letting go and then, ultimately, the same one that wants to stay. When we are threatened with parting, this brings about the most human experiences and we allow them. We allow them because they are what they are. Because in the end, the outcome is not always driven by our will. There are so many deeper elements at work when we make the choices we say we make on our own.

So lightness and darkness. When we find deep connections, both are shared, and we stand in the soft edges where they meet.

In the evening, we talked over champagne and chatter. There is always so much more to the stories we tell.