my gifted friend roger came for a visit yesterday. he shared with me his experience assisting a teacher training program at the kripalu yoga center in lenox, massachussetts, where it looks like he'll be moving shortly to be the first practitioner in a two-year intensive yoga study program there. he can't wait to get started. his eyes were beaming! it sounds great, a challenging immersion, commitment to learn, explore. i'm a bit jealous!
i love just sitting with roger. i don't know how we do it, but it seems that when we sit we both enter a calm and meditative state where after just a few minutes we begin to dig deep and share, explore, bring to the surface some wonderful and some difficult stuff. this connection was forged a couple years ago in the intense fire of a brief affair during which we scared and hurt each other so much it's surprising we can relate today. but, i'm finding fire is a great teacher, and with so much fire between us and with the immediate pain now subsided, we're able to explore what it was that lit the fire, got to us, what spun us out of control, how we became entangled, what we both craved, missed, and how we repeat those same patterns today with other people. roger introduces me to or leads me to a new places each time we sit, to new questions, which sometimes bug me, sometimes delight, but always move me, light my fire.
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