Samasthiti

I don't think I have spoken about the anusara invocation on this blog. Since Emily and Nanna, my teachers in Bali, were from the Anusara lineage, we would recite the anusara invocation often during the training and it was Emily's default shavasana song as well. It is a beautiful chant to surrender to. I found myself chanting it on my ride to the airport from Jati homestay. And it has stayed with me since. I was wearing a red maala on the last day and had rubbed the Joy oil that Emily dabs on our palms into the tassels of the maala. Scents are my thing.  guess they are everyone's thing actually. A whiff of a scent can take you back on time to moments, people, places, feelings. So throughout the cab ride and even on the plane, I would pick up the tassels from the maala to get a whiff of the Joy oil and chant the anusara invocation in the back of my head. That's the power of certain mantra, after a point in time, they become a part of you. You don't even have t