Spring has arrived with its colorful palette in Vancouver. I cannot but be enthralled by life that has sprouted to nourish the senses.. I am excited to be developing the script to shoot the short film about “Karma” who attended my 2019 teacher training and has moved through so much pain admirably.

Just as life takes its course, the creative process cannot be forced and one has to simply lay the ground for the project to blossom.

I have shared a poem below about allowing our lives to be shaped by life’s highest ideals.

THE HEART OF A TRUE ARTIST

By Yogacharini Maitreyi, arkaya.net

Our lives are the artistry of millenia

Chiseled by consciousness, Shiva

To dance the elements into grace

Earth, water, fire, air and ether or space

Shakthi - The creative force

Sings her birthing tune

Humming the universe into being

Her rhythms manifesting

Unfolding and Infolding. Involution and convolutions

She celebrates, not just the revolutionaries

Mainly evolutionaries.

Who unearth and heal their dysfunction and pain

No artist is true if

One cannot pay homage

And hear one’s heart resound with respect

Senses spring in awe

Support Shakthi soar

Protect sensitivity, guard subtlety. Thrive

Prostrate in rapture. Listen to life’s call

Offer oneself to be shaped again and again, by the greatest artist of all