Dear all,
Why is it, we would like to share our journey on the path?
We are here on planet earth with our own goal in life?
That what not is for-filled in earlier lifes?
Find out what we are do-ing here?
Find out that we can not do, only be-ing here?
But still questions arise?
I know why I am here on AYP
It’s not easy in normal daily life to meet someone with whom you can talk about this journey,
I have only one, and I believe he has awakened me,
With who I can share my deep questions with,
Aldo my work now is yogateacher, the questions asked are not so deep, but thats ok, it has to grow,
it’s not easy to share your deepest feelings/questions face to face,
That’s also why most of us not use our real names
I am so grateful that I have found this AYP
You all feel like my friends on the journey to the deepest 
Thank you all for be-ing here!
I think this will become easier. Yesterday I went to a little festival that my friend helped organize called “Awakening into the Sun”, and there were a bunch of booths where people were offering yoga/meditation/healing services and sharing their experiences openly. I talked with a man I had never met for a straight hour about spiritual experiences and nitty-gritty details.
Everyone is coming out of the closet. 
P.S. My real name is Cody, and one of the things I’m trying to do with my website “AYP for Recovery” is lead by example by not being shy or ashamed about my murky past, or these ongoing spiritual awakenings. Not that it’s something to flaunt or boast about, but anonymity can be tricky, as I’ve learned from hanging out in AA for several years. I respect people’s choices to remain private, but for me, some visibility is needed, especially when it comes to transformation and recovery. People thrive on real stories and true mythologies. 
I noticed that it is sometimes more easy with people you never met. But there are still moments I feel myself an alien, and then at the same time I know and see that that are only thoughts. I know and feel most of the time that everything is ok as it is, and embrace the experience, but still something inside me would like to escape socialising and bla bla talks.
My life changed in so many ways and I really enjoyed and enjoy opening up, after many years of wearing all kind of masks.
I made a yoga website, in Dutch were I also blog, and there are reactions, of likewise thinking people or people who are touched by the words. Not that that is the reason I write it but inside me is something that will shake and awake, the words has to come out and at he same time I know that it happens for everyone on the right time and the right place. It can make me sad, when I see the suffering in so many lifes…
Anyway, enjoy and embrace every moment thank you for your time Cody/Bodhi and keep up your good work! and beautiful writings, they are really good and hopeful!!
Marjoleine 
Charliedog
This is so resonating with me today!
Same here, from Michael, one of many dogboys
People have alway been taught to keep their sadhana and experinces a secret. I think unless it is a source of income it shouldn’t be talked about often. Defiantly share, if someone wants to know
Actually once you take that first step with due caution and appropriate safety measures like meeting in a public place making sure your own people know where you are what you are doing and have established check in points it is wonderful to be with others in person and share your lifes stories and even better to sit together and practice Spinal Beathing and Deep Meditation etc…
In recent times It has been my extreme good fortune and pleasure to spend full days with a fellow AYP Practitioner, we sat togother and talked and talked shared our experiences for hours and sat in AYP Practices together and the result was amazing the intense feelings of Divine Love, and Deep Appreciation for a complete stranger and a new friend overwhelminly beautiful and heart fulfilling.
With this kind of living it takes the idea of unity out of the realm of philosophy and brings it home and making it very, very real. It is like meeting yourself in another and loving them all the more for the uniqueness they represent and the feeling of love for their existance just knowing they are out there everyday living their life their way is a very unique and rewarding experience.
Like being with one of my own tribe, my kind. Which is to say someone who knows the same things and can relate it was very special you know. In this world we have all become far to alienated from one another while at the same time there are more people walking the earth than at any other time in history.
Odd no?
The old ways of keeping it to yourself are just that, old tired and a relic of a bygone era. Still some traditions insist upon it and to that it is thought whatever floats your boat. Mums the word ok too bad for you we could have enjoyed this life in kinship.
Yogani was bold and brave enough to break that barrier. Seems like it has worked out pretty darn good.
It is thought we are not put on this earth to hide and hold secrets from one another nor hide and covet that which is life. Stories and the stories of ones life are important they help others learn, or better understand what to expect when the time comes for them to have and opening and reinforce what we already know by repeating them.
Stories shared are a very human thing and it is sad to see it discouraged, maybe if it were not those of us of a certain knowing would not be so alienated and missing our tribe?
Thank you for sharing So- Hi ! Good to hear your story!
Why is it so difficult with family, parents and brothers to share, talk a little bit deeper then the surface… 
I am very very grateful for my children, they are open and sharing there feelings…
Sorry for ranting, feel alienating in my own family again 
Same here. They’re still lagging behind. I’ve had to learn to continue to blaze ahead, regardless. They’ll come along, in due time. Just leave a trail of breadcrumbs, and that will suffice. Trying to drag them against their will is simply exhausting and counterproductive. Leading by example, however, is the way to go.
At least we’ve got some felow practitioners to connect with through the emerging AYP network! The future looks bright. Onward.
I don’t try to drag them, well maybe I do, but I just would like them to be happy, so it is me again, who is not accepting them the way they are. It is not easy I guess because we share the same DNA 
it gives me a headache if I share too much time with my own family. It is confronting, so it is interesting to learn from it I suppose.
Thank you Bodhi for sharing,
Onward.
Rant here all you like. Seeing your feelings in words reduces the ache; releasing the ache samyama style cleans the slate. Staying connected with family as your true self will resonate over time. We are wired to be drawn to the Light.
It is also kind of confronting to see parents grow old, they need more help, the roles are changing, not easy for both parts. I want contact and they want to talk about the car of the neighbors. Sometimes I have the feeling, yes we are connected and then suddenly it’s gone again. Sometimes it is ok, sometimes it hurts, today it hurts, but then again I can feel love and it’s ok, and so we move on… 
like this.
To see my ranting in words gives me the opportunity to see exactly what is happening here inside, that clears up the sky, letting it go in silence now, samyama style. [OM]
Been there, done that. I feel your pain.
On the other hand, when the audience’s ears are receptive, the headache becomes a head massage, which I know you know from your ongoing experience as a teacher. That’s the best.
Let it go and go on, every moment fresh and new, and I would love a head massage Bodhi
I hear you, Charliedog. Like Dogboy said just residing in the beingness and let everyone be where/as they are is what’s been happening these days. People who are interested will come to you.
Having this online AYP family, I never feel disconnected.
Yes .
Today I attended an event “International Day of Yoga” in which they offered classes from Kundalini, Yin, Hatha, Ayurveda, Laughter yoga and so on. I had a vision of AYP being there in few years.
Another beautiful experience when chanting “Ong Namo Gurudev Namo” meaning “I bow to divine light/ guru” during Kundalini yoga- Yogani’s name arose from the silence, I let it go back in silence. Every cell in the body lit up and “I” melted.
Thank you again Yogani for showing the way to living a magical life and creating this scared space where we can share and connect to our heart’s content .