Summer Solstice

I am heading out Sunday to the celebration put on by the 3HO organization with the above name. Its based around said time of year but involves a 3 day course of white tantric yoga (wow!), yes 3 days. I did one at winter solstice and it was intense.

This being the year that the organization is celebrating fire I can only imagine how intense this experience will be. Going deliberately into the fire! Yes I am. In the middle of the desert none the less!

So each year there is a meditation based around the elemental theme and so I just checked on it and its a biggie. Of course, you're just sitting there but your arms are floating with the elbows at shoulder height and the fingers intricately wound up and an intense mantra chanted four times one one breath. I am going to try it in a few minutes for the first time to see the effect it has on me.

I'm curious about this draw to keep going into the fire; the fire of practice, the fire of intense introspection, the fire of life! Its a metaphor of course, but also not. Its intensity is just that for a reason, to pull forth the things that have been buried and are needed to work on to get them gone for good.

But this is my path, to go into those things with intention and draw them out, and allow them their space (sometimes, most times the hardest part of the process) and then let them go through processing. Hmmm, off to do that meditation. Lets see what it brings up and what direction I head in with what comes up!

Sat Nam