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councidences, hawaii, love, relationships, rocks, soulmates, teacher training, yoga
It had been a month since the wind storm, and all was well. I was on KapĂ a, Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands, for the second module of a 200hr yoga teacher training. I was fundamentally restructuring my ego identity, breaking through things I didn’t even know I was being blocked by. Ten hours of intense training for ten days will do that to a person. It’s like being in a pot of boiling water, one has no choice but to transform into another form of matter. I couldn’t have stayed the same even if I wanted to. My first Shamanic experience, my first foray into Mother Earth becoming me and me becoming Her, at the sacred site on the island where two points of land; Ida and Pingala, hold the ocean, Sushumna, coming into shore. I was shedding an old cocoon, wings still wet, not yet ready to fly but no longer the form I once was. It felt both new and familiar, this becoming.
For some reason, people are always giving me stones, pieces of Earth. It is an inexplicable yet common thread, as I never ask for them, but they are always given.
On this particular Saturday evening, I was enjoying the porch and the sound of the ocean crashing onto the beach. I checked my phone, and had a voicemail from my roommate. Imagine my delighted surprise to hear Zebey’s voice on the other end. We hadn’t seen or spoken to each other since that night, and I was still plodding along in my relationship with Jack. What comes out of her mouth next is unbelieveable. She tells me that she was just in Colorado, and had been hiking up a mountain. She doesn’t know why, but she saw a rock, thought of me, and brought it back as a gift. This meant at some point we would see each other again so the gift could be exchanged. Now, this could be rationally explained, I’m sure, but what are the odds? We choose to see what we want to see, in every situation. I chose to see that this girl, who I only met once, had thought of me and was giving me a gift that had been given to me throughout my whole life. Even in my rational, scientific, logic filled mind, this was epic. I was starting to believe in magic again.