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I DO YOGA AND WORDS.
Hi, I’m Shawna Krueger! I am a storyteller who loves yoga. I host and produce the After Yoga podcast, a hypnotic storytelling podcast that uses the depth of yogic practice as ground to explore modern culture, artistry, and big human questions. I write poetry, prose and stories constantly, and creativity has changed my life many times over.
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At 5:15am I was talking to my Uber driver about yoga and God,
and he was so interested in hearing about my experience with yoga, although he had never done it himself. He told me that in northern India he used to see people do yoga frequently. So I asked him if people commonly read the Bhagavad Gita and sacred texts that teach about yoga, because last night I just finished a close reading of the Gita and I feel that it defined yoga in the deepest way that yoga has ever been defined for me. Yoga as spiritual integration, yoga as loving God.
A word I had avoided over the last decade yet now wished to discuss with my Uber driver. He told me, that is a holy text of Hinduism. I am not Hindu. I am Sikh. And so I asked him what the name of his holy book is called. He told me and explained how it shapes his understanding of other galaxies and the depth of the ocean and everything that's unknown. He told me about how consciousness is able to travel faster than light, and how each and every morning and night he meditates. He told me about his yoga.
But he never said the word yoga. I got out of the car and said thank you, God, for reminding me that truth has many paths and many names, and that I should not be afraid to look beyond whatever book I currently have in my hands, and for reminding me that although not everything is yoga, I can find yoga in everything.