The metric I disdain is one that attributes value to the number of followers a person has.

By societal standards, growth is (often, not always) attributed to how much of something a person has because it provides status, wealth, and influence.

Which ultimately leads to power and control. 

However, I’ve discovered refinement and my own true radiance through the quality of my approach. 

I have a small social following. And an even smaller newsletter list. 

When I share something, I am grateful if one person reads or likes what I’ve created. 

You could be a friend, foe, thief, or priestess; your status does not matter.

The creative process matters most to me: doing the thing to witness my evolution as a human being part of a much greater matrix than I could ever understand.

The growth I am most concerned with right now is of my inner world: I want to keep meeting the edges and tearing them apart with my bare hands. 

I want to say YES to everything until my throat is dry and my bank account is empty. 

Under the affirmation to receive life, there is an eternal wellspring within that doesn’t need superficial lubrication.

It is self-sustaining. 

I want to go there, and I am stubborn in my resolution.

In one of the discussions during our pilates training, a participant asked me if I’d experienced the Kundalini Awakening. 

My answer is, and hopefully always will be, No. 

I don’t want enlightenment while I am on Earth. 

I want the struggle, the YES, the resistance, pain, and purpose that come from defining (delivering?) myself through art. 

I am not seeking divine ecstasy; I want to reach for the God/Goddess and keep straining until perhaps my fingertips brush up against beauty, truth, and justice. 

My mentors died before their influence fully flourished and touched humanity. This will be my path, too. I can feel it. 

Simone Weil is the woman I turn to whenever I question who I am and how I live.

Which is often.

At the bottom of this letter, I’ve included one of my favorite passages from her novel, Waiting On God.

Sending you love and light,
Sera

 

Zoom With Me ~

KUNDALINI YOGA - SATURDAY
8am pst | 11am est | 5pm cet | 6pm trt

KRIYA VINYASA - WEDNESDAY
7am pst | 10am est | 4pm cet | 5pm trt

These classes are open for everyone to attend.

Please email me directly if you want to be added to the weekly Zoom link list.

seraphinadawnyoga@gmail.com

 

Poetry for the Soul

Bridge 

The heart rests a little to the left
to avoid scrutiny. Whatever aligns
in the middle must balance the poles.

Carried as a

dancer by melody
painter by color

tide by moonlight

Spontaneous expression is elicited
through the soul. Connected to the
rhythm of breath, it knocks. 

Question the habits that break the
line into a dot or a dash. 

— Seraphina Dawn

CURRENTLY

What I’m reading:

◇ The Pilates Body by Brooke Siler

What I’m listening to:

◇ Nam Myoho Renge Kyo Mantra

What I’m meditating on:

◇ The Dakini Sword

Quote of the Week:

We live in a world of unreality and dreams. To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence...

To empty ourselves of our false divinity, to deny ourselves, to give up being the center of the world in imagination, to discern that all points in the world are equally centers and that the true center is outside the world, this is to consent to the rule of mechanical necessity in matter and of free choice at the center of each soul. Such consent is love.

The face of this love, which is turned toward thinking persons, is the love of our neighbor; the face turned toward matter is love of the order of the world, or love of the beauty of the world which is the same thing.

Simone Weil

 

1 question to brew on:

• What is growth?