Happy Halloween!
Regardless of whether or not you’re dressing up for Halloween, we all wear masks.
I’m not talking about Covid masks.
I’m talkin’ the happy mask.
The helpful mask.
The promise that I’m not really really really bugged by what you’re doing right now—I swear!— mask.
The other day, in a mentor session with my mentor student Danielle Washington (check out her stuff, she’s amazing!), we were exploring this theme of wearing masks and how to use this in a theme while creating a Yoga Nidra practice and a great question came up:
What is the price of wearing the mask?
Sure, some of those masks may be necessary sometimes.
But ever feel like you’d like to get to know that person under the mask a little better?
Ever feel like you just can’t be yourself?
Ever feel the need to just take the masks off and be exactly who you are, without filter, without the need for anyone’s approval?
Yoga and Yoga Nidra help us to first recognize the masks we are wearing, then to see that what we are is something infinitely larger and more complete than that mask. Once we understand our True Self, we can go back and choose to wear or not wear the mask.
Point is, that the mask is actually a pointer to what you really are.
I invite you to get in touch with your True Self, regardless of the masks you may or may not wear.
Please join me for yoga or Yoga Nidra this weekend where we will get a chance to connect with our True Self.
This month in my once-a-month Restore Yoga and Yoga Nidra workshop (2-hour rest-fest), we’ll be exploring masks and the cost of wearing masks.
