Love from Napa, California

I've just returned from a few days in Napa, St. Helena and Calistoga, CA. I loved seeing the beautiful countryside and enjoying the quaint atmosphere of each town. What a beautiful state I'm living in!

I sat at a coffee shop and started Stephen Cope's Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, a book I can hardly put down. I loved this passage:

Yoga speaks in a startlingly fresh way to the concerns we Western seekers bring to our psychological and spiritual journeys. Americans suffer inordinately with what therapists call problems of the self -- an inability to self-soothe; an inability to sustain a satisfying and cohesive sense of self over time; an inability to warmly love the self; an inability to maintain an ongoing sense of belonging and a deep sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Thank goodness we have yoga to help! :)

Hope you're having a beautiful weekend so far. Namaste, yogis!