Long story short. I went to an amazing weekend yoga retreat a few weeks ago conducted by a friend who also just happens to be an amazing yoga teacher and personal coach. I’m not someone who has ever had a true yoga practice and normally I am not someone who would attend a weekend retreat, but when this offer came from someone I admire — I had to try it.

Michel Eubank Spruance has a great website with her upcoming Retreats, Classes and Services — Check it out!  I was so grateful for the opportunity and for the first time I feel like I “got” why everyone was so transformed by yoga.  Thanks Michel.

But just as important as the yoga retreat was a poem that was read as we began our early morning meditation walk on the beach. I can literally hear myself reciting certain lines occasionally in my mind. Normally, any poem with the word “God” in it sends me running for the hills, but somehow the humor and joy was too hard to resist.

So I’m trying to move my body a little big more, and trying to learn to bend — physically and spiritually. Enjoy.

You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the ‘mine’ – that is the veil.
Why ever worry about anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magi’s brilliant trick, though its affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Hole.
Sweetheart, O sweetheart
You are God in Drag!
from The Gift — Hafiz