The Tejaswini Playground Press

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We create our realities with our thoughts. Cultivating the witness, that part of our minds that objectively watches everything we are, allows us to clearly see all of our thoughts. Through the power of watching our thoughts, we gradually change the way we perceive the world. We shift from viewing the world as a serious court of justice to seeing this universe as a joyous playground. Like gleeful children, we get to play and celebrate during this lifetime we've been given. On the playground we enjoy ourselves fully, even if sometimes we scrape our knees or get our hearts broken! No matter what pains we go through, we can't let the heartbreaks keep us from opening up and having a good time on the playground.

Here is a bit of news from the fun I'm having lately on the Tejaswini Playground ~

~ Well, I’ve been having so much fun that I’m way behind on sending out this June newsletter! So much has happened since I last wrote on May 14^th. In this newsletter I will share the highlights and then I’ll write more in depth about it all in a series of blog posts. Speaking of the Teja Blog, I am now posting these monthly newsletters on the blog as a way to share them with more people and also as a way to archive them on-line.

~ The first week of June I attended a training in San Rafael through the Insight Prison Project. We learned a curriculum to use when facilitating groups of offenders and victims, and we spent a whole day inside San Quentin Prison. Watch for a blog about this experience. It was totally inspiring!

~ When the prison training ended I headed to see Ammachi for a few days. Amma tours the U.S. twice each year, and her main center is in Castro Valley, just outside of San Ramon, California. (www.amma.org) This was one of my most potent and memorable experiences with Amma. I will be writing more about it on the Teja Blog soon. The highlight was Amma giving me an apple!

~ While at Amma’s ashram, I meditated on a health issue, and received guidance to see Dr. Paul Romanoff, a chiropractor who offers sessions at the ashram when Amma is there. The healing sessions with him were amazing, and he recommended that I continue the healing process in Ashland with Dr. Mike Young, a local chiropractor. For the past two weeks my focus has been on healing at the physical level: spending lots of time in the sunshine, breathing, and releasing a charge of energy that I’ve held inside for a while now. I feel super grateful for this healing journey of release.

~ While gone on my trip south, I really missed the weekly Radiance Rising Circles, and I was so happy to return to them! One of the attendees said that he felt like mommy was back! I said it must’ve been Amma coming through me. :)

~ I’m still reading The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic, by Ramesh Menon. I’m on page 458 of 686 pages, and I’ve been immersed in the gory stories of the war for a while now… 65 more pages of the war to go, and I am really ready to be through with that part! I am noticing my discomfort with conflict and with violence in general, and reading through it anyway. They say that reading or hearing the Ramayana purifies and cleanses the soul, and I am definitely experiencing that. What a blessing.

~ Here is one of my favorite quotes that I heard Amma say this time:

Be like flowers – flowers have so many good qualities, and they have no pride and no ego.

~ July 21-26, I will be offering workshops at the Mystic Garden Party in Corning, California. See my listing under the Devotional Dome at this link: http://mysticgardenparty.com/workshops/all-bios/

~ Lastly, if you haven’t yet seen the hilarious videos of my friend Pete and I giving each other  buzz cuts, be sure to treat yourself to that entertainment soon! www.buzz-for-bliss.com

May you enjoy the spicy summer playground of your life.

May all beings everywhere know Peace and Happiness.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini