California and Ananda

June 22, 2013

 My first day at Ananda Village... it's so beautiful.

We made it to Venice Beach, but couldn't find a place to stay. We walked around the boardwalk and I soaked up the ocean breeze thinking about and blessing my mom on her birthday. After driving up the coast til about midnight we pulled over and slept in the car til about 6 a.m.
 We drove the long drive to San Fransisco and saw the Golden Gate Bridge which was big and beautiful. The traffic in California was really trying on our patience. It's just one big traffic jam. But we did make up a new word. When you're stuck in traffic and you have to pee... you're in "Peegatory".
I wish we had more time to see the city but we instead decided to make it to Sacramento. Sacramento was a breath of fresh air! I found a vegan/raw food restaurant called Plum Cafe and found my people. The city was beautiful and the people were beautiful. Like a tiny Austin.

 I don't have a roommate and I'm really enjoying my alone time. Being alone is so important for me to process and get grounded again. I'm discovering the importance of making decisions by myself without outside influence, trusting my intuition and my heart.
I went to my first Sadhana today. The yoga wasn't challenging but it felt good to stretch and get in touch with my body. We did something called energization which is focusing on and activating all our muscles independently from toes to our head. The idea is to become sensitive to energy and be able to direct energy up our spine and out through our third eye. All the yoga poses were designed to activate certain chakra's as well. After energization and yoga postures we did a 45 minute meditation.
In my meditation I had some divine discourse. I feel more of my fears melting away and less of a need to make excuses. I also had an interesting merging of philosophies. In alchemy it speaks of the feminine energy and the masculine energy and how they separate, purify, and come back together to form a Divine Union, or marriage. Out of this union they produce the philosophers stone which can transmutate lesser materials into gold. It also will give you the elixir of life so you will become immortal. In religion it speaks of the Divine Mother and the Divine Father and we are their children created out of their cosmic love. Guru's are enlightened because they realize this and merge with this divinity and understand their powers of transmutation. Because they realize this they also break free of the cycles of samsara and realize the immortality of the Spirit. All we have to do is realize our divinity and understand our own power is limitless. Boundaries are dissolving...