After a community class with one of the long-time resident swamis who had become a wise and trusted friend, we walked together to Siva parking lot. I had spoken of a deep yearning, a desire to change. “If you really mean it,” she said, “then take the YDC. This is something that changes lives.” Life conspired to open the opportunity to do this. My concepts about what it meant to make changes were soon irrelevant. Ideas about what I wanted or how I thought my life should be were so much less and incomplete in the context of what this course opened for me. One of repeated statements in my writing throughout the course was, “This is not what I thought.” The tools and practices, the integrity of these teachings and those who have committed to passing them on – these are of inestimable value in revealing what lies within. What was given, what emerged through the practices, was so very much more than I could have known from the level of my thinking mind. This is a gift that indeed changes a life.
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