Wings and Roots
This year, I gave myself a gift. I waited for it to arrive before MAKING THIS BLOG POST.
I wanted to make sure my gratitude and my joy are expressed in these lines. My gift for myself is a print of an aerial photograph from a site dear to my heart and right out of my childhood. The West Bekaa Valley of Lebanon where my grandparents lived and where I spent all my summers and holidays through my late teenage years. I also lived and went to school in the West Bekaa during the Lebanese civil war.
Ammiq, West Bekaa, Lebanon by Rami Rizk
The more I contemplate the amazing landscape in this photo, the more I realize why I fell in love with it the second I laid eyes on it. I feel its power and symbolism. Through its vibrant colors and the life and fertility it represents, I keep finding keys to who I truly am and where I come from. I will be talking about all that in classes and blog posts in the coming year. My Mom passed away in 2020 and my roots were shaken as a result. She is the daughter of the fertile, beautiful and bountiful Bekaa. She left me with an immense inheritance of resilience, patience, and love for life and humanity, all qualities of this Bekaa Valley. This photo speaks to me as my Mom did through the cycle of her life and death. This moment in time captured from the sky – as if my Mom’s view of her homeland -- speaks of the energy we are, past, present, and future! My ancestors, my roots, my base, my past, and my path, are well represented together in one photo.
Announcements
Free Meditation on Insight Timer on December 30, 2020. Please consider joining me and invite others. We will come together in union from all over the world with an intention of balance, health, and peace as we bid this difficult year farewell and welcome a new one! Click here to join.
40-Day Meditation Challenge January 15 to February 23: Start your personal meditation practice with me or deepen your already existing practice. It is believed that it takes forty days for any habit to take hold. Challenge yourself to love yourself and commit to your peace of mind and wellbeing for forty days. Click here for more information and to sign up for this life-changing and necessary challenge!
Join my Omkara Yoga community on union.fit for classes, workshops, and empowerment. I am running a promotion during the months of December and January. 5-class pack for $50 is a perfect gift to yourself or a loved one. Just click on “passes” and enter the code GIFT2020 to unlock the special offer. This package is available only during December and January and will be available for use for two months from the date of purchase. You can also purchase any other package or membership and choose the gift option at checkout. Your loved one will receive your gift via email momentarily.
Sunday:
03:00p VinYin – Lift Yoga Dunwoody
05:00p Yin Yoga – Omkara Live Stream
Monday:
10:30a Warm Yin – Lift Yoga Dunwoody in person
12:00p Vinyasa Flow – Lift Dunwoody in person
06:30p Yin + Yoga Nidra – Lift Live Stream & In person
Tuesday:
06:30p Yinyasa & Deep Relaxation – Omkara Live Stream
Wednesday:
07:30p Restorative & Yoga Nidra – Omkara Live Stream
