COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

  How do you remember? What do you remember?  This past Sunday, before Memorial Day, I e-hosted in the Elevation Church chat on Youtube. This is my service. I volunteer, enjoying the experience of “walking people to their seats” online, welcoming them with the appropriate links/ information to support their experience, and prayer.  This Sunday while volunteering, someone placed a prayer request in the chat. It was for their elderly friend who has Dementia, who is struggling to remember. It was the woman’s birthday. I thought about this for a while. How much we take our ability to remember for granted. How, in some cases, we go out of our way to try to forget.  Today, Memorial Day, I offered a Memorial Meditation through Revolution Yoga. We used the Kirtan Kriya in which you chant Sa Ta Na Ma in a loud voice, then in a whisper and then silently to yourself and Infinity, while moving your fingers into various mudras. This is a meditation that has been scientifically studied and offered

This blog is for you if you have ever tried to do something so someone else would love you, like you, approve of you, affirm you... This blog is for you if you realized or are realizing that it does not work. I'm with you.  If you are still reading, we are both standing right now. Not to shame ourselves, but to set things right, to set ourselves free.  We are standing on our own two feet right now. And in order for us to be doing so, our muscles and bones and mind have to be working in accord. No one else can do that for us.  So, fellow person who feels like someone else's happiness is more important, I'd like to ask you: Is that person helping you to stand, literally? If not, I want to inquire of us here, then, how could they be more important to the function of our lives? How can their internal guidance system, that is designed for them, be more important than our own? It's not!    What we think, do, and feel comes from us, individually.  No one else knows what you ne