Colleen Choate Yoga

The cosmos at dusk, waving higher than my head 🌸✨

Someone recently asked me if I was going to continue my India in Color posts so I decided I would. Starting with Dark Browns and Black; rocks on the beach. Someone else I know traveled to India about the same time I did and when we both got back she mentioned she missed seeing nature and natural beauty while she was there and I was like.....excuse you? What India did you visit? (Bonus: can you spot the sea urchins? Mom and I got chased off the rocks by the life guards trying to look at the tide pools 🌊✨) (fine it was who asked secretly this was just a call out post).
@ Kovalam Beach, Kerala, India

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future recently and how to plan for it. What concrete steps can be taken when you don’t know what kind of future you’re stepping into as you take them? Can we dare to act as if the future we want is coming true at this moment, even if external forces tell us otherwise, tell us it’s impossible? Can we dare to dream beyond the realm of the intellect, and then act like it?
“Though I am beyond the intellect, I am not beyond your daring” - so says Bhairava (god) to his lover Devi (goddess) at the start of the Vijnana Bhairava Ta**ra (trans. to English as “The Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche). Throughout the text, Bhairava urges us to enter each moment, each breath, each sensory impression, and recognize it as the totality, the whole, the infinite. I ask myself a lot of questions and rarely come up with satisfactory answers, but this text reminds me to take it moment by revolutionary extraordinary shocking moment. To act in the world, not avoid it.