Good morning letter: On Purpose & Transformation ✨😌🪷
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Dear B.Yoga Family,
Have you ever felt like you cannot do anymore what you have so dearly loved doing before, at least not in the same way? Imposter Syndrome, anyone here? ☺️ To me, the creative process phases which seem not "productive" are sometimes excruciating. A part of me, strongly rooted in capitalist belief and indoctrination, creates mental whirls which splash me with the corrosive breeze of deep self doubt.
Something that has healed my mind and soul from these self harming thoughts is: fermentation. I've been an avid kombucha brewer since Michelle McManus introduced me to it some years ago –I think she probably introduced whole Basel directly or indirectly into it ;) –. Last year, I learned to make sauerkraut and this past May, I finally mastered the art of preserving lemons 🫧🍋🙌🏾, using fermenting weights –a gift from David🤍– For a month, I observed, turned, burped my glass jar filled with lemons and salt. The last day of May I finally took a piece of lemon to add it into a salad. 🤗 This microscopic molecular alchemy in which lemons, bacteria and me co-participated, taught me that creation is not always extroverted: magic happens in silence, in the spaces of intimate inner worldings, in our sleep, in the dream and the unconscious. Not exactly as food to be swallowed by the social media feeds all the time. This reminded me of a phrase my brother Diego, a circus artist and hand balance online coach, shared with me after training in the Circus school in Montreal, while I was learning to elbow stand in his company on one of his visits to Basel: Trust the process. 🐛🫧🦋
More bubbles appeared this morning 🫧, waking up after an inspiring evening spent with friends. They opened a path towards the outer realm. Much of what I have been meditating on, can be illustrated in the luminous reflection of an essay I recommend you to read: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin. Here a short introduction, aided by Google search AI:
Ursula Le Guin's "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" offers a powerful critique of traditional heroic narratives and proposes a different way of understanding human story. A key quote from the essay highlights this shift: "If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again-if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time."
This quote emphasizes the importance of gathering, storing, and sharing resources, rather than focusing solely on conquest or domination, as in traditional heroic narratives. Le Guin argues that the "carrier bag" – a container for holding and carrying – is a more fundamental and representative aspect of human experience than the "spear" or "hero" figure.
So much of what is macroscopically and painfully happening in the world is rooted on how we create narratives on what makes us people and humans. If you are afflicted by it, you are not alone. 🫶🏽
Coming back to the particularities of the Yoga world, this essay touches deeply a sensitive point: often the characteristics admired collectively in a Yoga teacher are based on the same "hero" figure. I am looking forward to ferment collectively on these ideas this weekend (today at 11:00!) and in my coming classes.
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Much love and appreciation,
Daniela Fuentes
& The B.Yoga Family
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