Discover Your Inner Resilience and Strength
How do we face life’s inevitable dance of falling down and getting up? Join Mark Nepo as he extends an invitation for listeners to view adversity from a new perspective - facing the challenges of life by choosing to embrace every experience as an opportunity for positive change.
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Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, he has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” Mark has written over 25 books including the #1 New York Times best seller The Book of Awakening, that have been translated into over 20 languages. He was also chosen as one of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s Supersoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity.
When asked about his experience on The Yoga Hour, Mark says “They are great!”
Here is a short poem that Mark asked us to share with The Yoga Hour audience.
Inside Gravity
There is an ancient carving from
India of an elephant balancing its
weight with one foot on a lotus. And
there are some who bark right away,
“That’s ridiculous. The world is too
much. And a lotus would be crushed.”
But I’m convinced this was offered
as an image of what it is to be here.
Once looking inside gravity, the
eye immediately goes to the point
where the foot touches the lotus.
That improbable point holds the
practice of being human: how to
balance the weight of the world
on all that is dear.
Mark Nepo
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS:The interview with Mark Nepo discussing life’s inevitable dance with falling down and getting up was both comforting and encouraging. He reminds us that no matter what difficulty we face, it won’t last. Everything changes. There is always a choice point. If we do the inner-work, it allows growth to come in. “We are always more than what was done to us.” I was personally struck by his insight that after grief, things don’t go back to the old “normal”. Life won’t be the same, the world will have a different hue. Like adding a drop of iodine to water you can still see through clearly, however it is tinted. Another thing he emphasized was the need to be completely who we are, then we can keep the web of connection to others and the world strong and alive. Mark ended with the thought to trust your heart. Let the heart be your teacher. It is the conduit between us and the world.
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DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I always find our conversations and Mark Nepo’s books to be very rich and full, touching on the Oneness of which we are all a part of. I appreciated the dedication of his book, “To those who are stuck", as all of us have been stuck at one time or another. He describes being stuck as a developmental passage in the process of transformation that is important and necessary. It’s part of his approach in this book, an invitation to face the challenges of life by embracing every experience as an opportunity for positive change. I love the idea that our job is really to get up one more time than we fall, or as a Japanese proverb states, “Fall down seven times, get up eight”. Even though we discussed some challenging topics like fear and grief, I find his message to be very hopeful. As Mark says “Everything that can break will, until what is left is unbreakable.”