About

 

My spiritual awakening began when I was 28. I had come across the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and, while reading A New Earth, something opened almost immediately. One morning, I woke up conscious, with no thoughts running through my mind. Intuitively, I knew to go inward.

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As I went deeply inside myself, a flash of an image I didn't understand appeared. It sparked a deep fear of death in the body, and my entire body began to shake. But I was so conscious that I was able to simply observe it. I didn't resist. Eventually, the shaking released completely.

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What followed was a profound opening into presence. There was no sense of separation. I was one with everything, and I knew I was not the body. As I rested in that state, one sentence arose within me: “Death is not real.”

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But the awakening wasn't the end of the journey. I stayed in the world. Looking back, I can see there was still a momentum of pain that needed to play itself out.

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Years later, during another spontaneous experience, my own face flashed before my eyes. With it came one word:

“Nobody.”

Something began to fall away. The self-images I had accumulated throughout my life—the doer, the worker, the one who mad, the one who was sad the person I thought I was—began to be seen for what they were.

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Then came what I call Moksha Summer, a period of deep presence when thought became remarkably quiet and life seemed to move without the constant interference of the mind. After a quiet spiritual event I woke up with what I felt like the remaining hypnosis of the world was lifted and I was completly present. One thoguh came through it floated across my the screen of my mind once "Moksha"... I had to later inquire into the word although on a deep level I knew what it meant. Since then, the deepening has continued and is speeding up.

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Presence is with me daily now, gently wrapping itself around any remnants of pain and healing without effort. More and more, the time-bound sense of self—the person held together by the past or continually imagining herself in the future—is becoming visible and dissolving.

There is less becoming and more simply being here.

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My service is to bring this presence and compassion into the world—for humans and for animals. I experience animals as conscious beings capable of their own deepening and awakening, and I believe they belong within our understanding of consciousness, not outside of it. Yoga With Salad is one way I offer what I am living in service to all beings.

 

This offering was born from Moksha Summer.

 

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