Namaste---When Souls Line Up

When Souls Line Up

I am learning yoga.

Gentile yoga, yoga for beginners, non-threatening-small group, s-l-o-w yoga. This is shocking to those that know me, but it is true…a whole 5 weeks of it. At the end of each class, our teacher closes with this prayer: 

May the long time sun

Shine upon you,

    All love surround you,

    And the pure light within you

    Guide your way on. -Namaste

Isn’t it nice? And “Namaste” means loosely “my soul honors your soul”….

What happens when souls see each other?

[wait for it...]


Here is my friend Babs. She is a kindred soul. We share June birthdays, a year and 10 days apart. It seems as if we have known each other for years but in actuality only since last summer.

I thought...what a great gift for her birthday. Who doesn't need a comforting prayer? 

Of course I wanted to share the meaning of "namaste" with her, so I searched the translations and found this: 

• I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells, I honor the place in you which is of Love, of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, we are One.

Babs and her daughter Ashley (amazingly talented artist and soul too) ran the Harvard Pilgrim Finish at the 50 5K at Patriot Place yesterday.

I'm impressed that they "run" period.  I do not run.  I do not "run".     Remember the start of this story....I have only just worked up to learning yoga ( non-threatening-small group, s-l-o-w yoga)-after 48 years.     

It was starting at 5:30 and I had said I thought I'd like to come see them finish.  But---here's the dilemma. Lots of people, cars, crowds and that is not something I like.

I did it anyway. I waited to see 
them at the finish. I snapped a couple photos of them.  As we talking while they cool down, I showed them the ONE photo I took after I parked.

The race had started when I left my house. There was no traffic. All green lights.  I park in the lot behind, near the Urgent Care. 3rd row back from the stadium and in the center. 

The runners are going by and I can see them all on the maze of ramps and it is impressive. So I stop for a sec and take a photo.

 I show her the pic on my camera

"It's us" Babs said. No. It can't be. How?

There in stride. Babs and Ashley side by side.  

Namaste.