Spicy Lessons From Veggies: Yoga Lessons From the Farm

I have the honor of teaching yoga in a very beautiful barn at a local farm. When the yoga season started this summer at Amee Farm in Pittsfield, Vermont, the tomatoes were seedlings, roughly an inch tall, growing indoors. All striving to be full grown tomato plants that would produce fruit and thus "survive" as future seeds. Their dharma is simply reproduction and species longevity. The act of living that dharma, however, is called tapas or burning zeal. All the plants at the farm share a similar tapas. As do the trees in the Green Mountain National Forest surrounding the farm. They don't try to be anything other than what they are, nor do they judge one another for such authenticity (at least as best as I can tell). Every now and then, one of the offspring will share a different tapas than its ancestors and go off to be something more than seeds for a future plant. For example, the tomato may become caprese salad, a spectacular sauce, or heaven forbid it gets wild and becomes a spicy salsa (those jalapeños are quite an influence!) In any case, tapas means nothing when the conditions aren't ripe for growth. If the soil isn't balanced, the rain/water and sun aren't in correct proportion, and predators are attacking, the plant cannot grow to its fullest and it certainly will not produce much, if anything. When humans try to resist their dharma or take on the dharma someone else expects of them, they immediately challenge their tapas. The "soil" of the souls garden isn't ba...
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