Tag: belief system
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The Way Of the Warrior
The Warrior Spirit. Compassionate intensity, the way of the warrior. Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, my friends, is called surviving. Not healing. We never become whole again … we are survivors. If you are here today… you are a survivor. But…
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Following the nature’s cycle, — earth living.
Ritu samhara by Kalidasa is favourite of mine where each season is described as a pair of lovers. Then there is Baramas, both Meera, and by Ravidas that drift into the tradition of Sufism where with the divine-devotee and seasons. My personal god and theatre guru Ratan Thiyam, presented Ritu samahara, as the way Kalidas…
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Waking up to the life of my dreams..
Waking up to the life of my dreams.. One day Dr.Patricia Sequiera visited me, she is the doctor at the University. She had signed up as an Amway consultant and she had come to share the business the plan. She asked me what my dreams were. At that point in life I could not see…
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Sharing grief, opening to receive comfort
From childhood, keeping a stiff upperlip, not crying in public was taught to us. so much so we confused empathy with pity. The time I lost my father, the time I was recovering from my burns, these were moments that caused me feel shock and sadness, the first thing I did was to withdraw from…
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Challenge and Anxiety
The annual Dussehra performance and I was totally aghast when my performers could not perform since the institution where I took the workshop had suspended the students. Handling the crisis I realized my entire visual of disappointing the audience and anxiety took toll before I even looked at a solution. Most of us are stronger…
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workshop oan Ancient Wisdom
Yesterday afternoon ICG organized a workshop on “Ancient learnings and transferring it to a new wave” I participated in it hoping that there would be some insight in transferring the ancient knowledge. Well the workshop began with us sharing about what we thought of our ancestors, from there were a few slides on Nelson Mandela’s…