There is something tender about returning.
After time away — especially time spent in a place as ancient and alive as India — reentry is not simply coming home. It is a quiet integration. A soft landing. A listening.
Every aspect of yoga is life-affirming. To live fully is to be in relationship with ourselves — not only in moments of ease, but in the unfamiliar, the challenging, the expansive. Over this past month, I was reminded that the true journey is not the one outward. It is the one inward.
And that journey does not end when the plane lands.
The Practice of Assimilation
Travel changes us. But what transforms us is not what we gather — it is what we release.
To digest and assimilate experience…
To gently let old patterns soften…
To notice the subtle vrittis — the small, repetitive movements of the mind — and meet them with compassion.
My intention now is simple:
to be aware of awareness.
To return to the sweet familiarity of home, while seeing through new eyes.
To shift from the small mind into the vastness of Here and Now.
India did not give me something new.
It reminded me of what has always been true.
“India did not give me something new.
It reminded me of what has always been true.”
The purpose of my life is to live fully — and to support others in remembering how.
This is the quiet work of spiritual integration — letting practice meet real life, moment by moment.
A Space for Quiet Gathering
In that spirit, here at Yoga Among Friends, I feel called to open a simple space on Sunday mornings.
Beginning Sunday, March 15, from 8:15–9:00am, I will offer a free Sunday morning meditation and simple community gathering for peaceful reflection in Downers Grove. A short, guided inward practice. A time to settle into the steady vibration of the heart. A pause before the day unfolds.
Nothing elaborate. Nothing required.
Just a willingness to sit together. To listen inward. To remember that together we are stronger and more luminous than we are alone.
When we restore our inner light, life becomes a living laboratory — an opportunity to move from fear toward love, again and again.
If you wish to continue the morning in movement, Sundays also include Gentle Yoga & Self-Myofascial Release and Yoga for the Soul, each held in the same spirit of inward listening.
The doors are open.
There is no perfect moment to begin.
With love,
Laura
This gathering is offered freely. If you feel called to join, we simply ask that you register in advance so we can prepare the space with care.
