While in a recent class on spiritual growth I had the opportunity to witness the bravery of new students as well as more parts of myself that were, not quite knowing how to open, to trust, to surrender to the beauty that is who we truly are. When I recevied this beautiful poem from a teacher in California,   Chameli Ardagh, Founder of Awakening Women Institute

I hope it inspires and moves you just like it did for me!

"Even when every inch of you wants to run the other way,
when the pain seems too deep to bear,
even when the the jungle of entanglement seems way to thick.
You stay.

Even when you fail,
when you find yourself crawling knee-deep in rancid stories,
even when you betray yourself, again.
Your being keeps opening through it all.

Your holy being unfurls like a flower,
through the unbearable,
through the longing,
through the doubt,
through the silence,
through the fear,
through the stunning simplicity of each breath.

Your roots are no longer clinging to mirages of certainty,
they now draw their nectar from deep within the movement of life,
from within the magnificent pulse of Shakti.
A new breath, A new moment,"

Chameli & The Awakening Women Team.