This is my soul yantra: a prism of my particular energetic frequency conveyed through color and composition; me as an abstract painting.

I submitted it for the juried exhibition WHO. ARE. YOU. at the Atlantic Gallery in New York City. I find out this week if it has been accepted. (Stay tuned.)

But regardless, I loved submitting this piece for this subject. Self-knowledge and self-representation. Who We Are and how we reflect that back to ourselves and to the world.

Who We Are is the essence of this work and I realize as I write, an essential inquiry of yoga (from which this entire endeavor has grown).

The first question my now Swami posed to us in teacher training was: Who are you?

And the last question she posed was: Who are you?

Because who we know ourselves to be changes—and yet the essence of who we are is unchanging.

And it is that, your unchanging radiant essence of being, that this work seeks to reflect so that you might remember, not occasionally, but regularly, that you might not simply catch a glimpse, but live there, in the seat of yourself, always.

Who are you?

At the core, who are you?

When everything—all your titles and achievements and roles—are stripped away, who are you?

What does it feel like to rest in that place?

Do you know?

Do you live there?

Do you want to?

I do.

(More on finally landing there and what it looks like in my body of work and business next week.)

I invite you into a meditation on this line of inquiry, Who Am I, by Ramana Maharshi, as taught to me by my teacher, Swami Jaya Devi Bhagavati. It’s a short 5 minutes.

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