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We know you've been waiting anxiously for Leslie's theme of the week and here it is! It's a good one, if we do say so ourselves! Let us know what you think.
Her theme for the week of 11/11 was The Wizard:
We all need our own personal wizard to remind us of what we have or already know. This weekend I was thinking about the Wizard of Oz because on Facebook we posted the quote from Glinda the Good Witch to Dorothy: “You don’t need to be helped any longer, you've always had the power to go back to Kansas … You just needed to learn it for yourself." Dorothy then understands she never really lost this power but had to learn to believe in herself. She returns to Kansas by tapping together her ruby slippers and repeating, "There’s no place like home."
We all need our own personal wizard to remind us of what we have or already know. This weekend I was thinking about the Wizard of Oz because on Facebook we posted the quote from Glinda the Good Witch to Dorothy: “You don’t need to be helped any longer, you've always had the power to go back to Kansas … You just needed to learn it for yourself." Dorothy then understands she never really lost this power but had to learn to believe in herself. She returns to Kansas by tapping together her ruby slippers and repeating, "There’s no place like home."
Dorothy viewed the Wizard as a source of all the answers knowing, if she could only get to him, that all would be revealed to her. Have you ever had the experience of hoping to find the one who had the answers to all of your questions; the one who could tell you what to do and what not to do, who to be and who not to be? Maybe you've had that feeling of not knowing which direction to go in life and where to find the source that holds all the answers. But the true wizard is our yoga practice. Yoga takes us off of the yellow brick road and puts us on a direct path that moves right through the muscles and bones, straight into the center of our minds, our hearts and souls, reconnecting us powerfully and profoundly to our truth, to our true essence, to who we really are. Yoga encourages us to turn away from the distractions and instead to tune in to the present moment. Yoga teaches us to be here now. And, when we are fully present, we are fully alive. And, when we are fully alive, we are able to reconnect to our truth, finding ourselves more deeply aligned with our true nature, to our home in Kansas (or our OM).
The characters that accompany Dorothy on this journey to get to know herself are the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion – who are the embodiment of the mind (the Scarecrow looking for knowledge, a brain), the heart (the Tin Man looking for love, a heart), and the body (the Lion looking for courage, a body) and Dorothy, who represents the soul. She was essentially trying to integrate all three of these aspects in her life as she journeyed on the Yellow Brick Road (the yogic path) which, not surprisingly, is a golden spiral which leads her home (or om). Dorothy's story is truly Tantric because it teaches that what we are really seeking is already inside of us. The answers have never been somewhere else. The man behind the curtain was just that, a man behind a curtain. Each of us hold the keys to our own empowerment and always have - just like Dorothy. The answers and the truth have been within each of us all along.
Scott Hittelman
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