The Road Back

However men try to reach me, I return their love with my love; whatever path they may travel, it leads to me in the end.
—Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, Verse 11

For this is my son who was dead, and is now alive again; he was lost and now is found.
— Luke 15:21

On the way out, we were looking only forward: only toward our mission. And now that we have encountered and embraced the divine (in the world and in one another), we begin to look back. Back toward the real world. Back toward home.

1. What have you struggled with most in the last few weeks? Which week was the toughest to this point? What about it was so tough? Face that struggle again. Face that challenge. Can you somehow approach it anew and reframe it?
2. What other do-overs would you like? That time you put your foot in your mouth? A time when you really didn’t live up to your own values or morality? As you reflect on this time (these times), can you reframe them? Can you forgive yourself? Can you leave them by the side of the road? If that’s challenging, write it as if someone you loved (a child or your dearest friend) were beating themselves up like you are, what you tell them?

If you have completed the journal prompts above, then simply let yourself write for ten minutes without any rules or restrictions. Consider the prompts, your previous journal entries this week, and just let your pen go!

Many thanks to The Mercedes Club, Hell’s Kitchen, NY, for letting me record these yoga flows in their gorgeous yoga studio.