Sanctuary

Last month I took on a new challenge as a  yoga teacher.  I organized and co-taught a yoga benefit for an immigrants rights group that I volunteer with as a board member.  It was challenging on so many levels, and in equal measure rewarding.  I'm grateful to my amazing yoga teacher Kate Busby who generously co-taught with me, as well as Lisa, the studio owner who so generously supported this benefit.  I got to experience the big heart of yoga through this experience.  

The theme of the benefit was sanctuary, because it is at the core of what the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice does in our community. It's also what I think that yoga can offer each of us on our self-care journey.  It was the goal of Kate and I to create a space of sanctuary and healing.  Through yoga, sound healing and reiki. 

The dictionary defines a sanctuary as a place of refuge and protection.  Our world, our country, our city, our bodies need sanctuary.  It is something we create together.  It's an intention.  It's a political action.