Here are some of my favourite poems by Gerry Hillier which I collected over the past 5 years after attending the annual yoga retreat in Australia. Enjoy. Gerry will be visiting Singapore in mid May, if you are keen to attend her workshops, check out www.theowlcompany.com.
I am
said the leaf
in stillness and then
Karuna means compassion in Sanskrit. My connection with Karuna Home (www.karunahome.org) goes back to 2001 when I was introduced to this special project by my previous yoga teacher, Erika Khoo to a very generous lady, Linda Yong who is one of the founding members of the Karuna Home for the disabled. On Erika’s 50th birthday celebration, Linda gave a slide presentation to the audience as a part of her fund raising drive for Karuna Home. In that presentation, I experienced a deep compassion for the disabled Tibetan children and had since been supporting them in my little small ways.
Since July 2011, I had been contemplating on a suitable name for this new exploration and expression of mine i.e. sharing the science of yoga and healing with others. One morning in late August, suddenly “Your Presence Heals” was revealed to me in a flash during my morning Sadhana (practice) in a deep “unclutched” state. The words appeared clearly in my inner space. Just like how scientists like Newton or Einstein had their sudden revelation of scientific discoveries in the one moment – the present moment, these three words came to me but I had to piece the puzzle together by figuring out logically the space where this revelation happened.
There is a common saying “Your presence speaks volumes about who you are and what you stand for”. Presence can be expressed from different energy spectrum, for e.g. from a grosser level as physical matter like body expression but at a subtler level, it is energy or consciousness radiating the spirit of Light. Fundamentally, we are all nothing but energy as concluded by Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence theory, E = MC2. Everything that exists is energy. Presence is nothing but energy we radiate.