Service to Thy Will: Yoga with Jenn at Yoga Sol, Carson City, NV: May 30, 2016

Today is Memorial Day and there's a lot of talk about service for our country. In particular military service. One thing that has been hard for me living in Carson City, NV is the general conservative culture. The Nevada motto is "battle born".

Its not that I'm not grateful for the amazing lifestyle in the United States. I am. But I'm more interested in the wider implications of service as suggested by spiritual teachers of all faiths, and that is service to Thy Will. A humble bow to God in her many names and forms. As Rumi suggests

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

It seems the prime directive is Love and to share and love all our fellow humans and creatures, American and otherwise. As Ravi Ravindra often says, its not about freedom for ourselves, its freedom from ourselves so that we can Love One Another for real.

This is powerful alignment at home or on the road. 


The battle is the small self, the me me me,  verses the Big Self. My battle cry today is Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu.

May All Beings Be Happy And Free

Namaste