Iwa is a beautiful term that comes from the Yoruban culture of West Africa. It roughly translates to “all that informs your existence" and is how Yorubans speak of both their character and their well-being. What I love about it most is that it is the single term they have for what in English translates to the two concepts we generally consider distinct: being and doing.
Read MoreOur friendship is made
of being awake
~ Rumi
I have an invitation for you. It’s free and it’s playful – an interesting way to be reflective as well as pause and see the world. It’s a mindfulness practice I made up called “Vital Haiku.” It involves pairing a photograph with a haiku, both created by you.
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.
~ Excerpt from “What to Remember When Waking” by David Whyte
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