Sept 14. 2024. Newsletter 1.0
Hey Friends,
A warm welcome to Curiously Yours and to all who have subscribed for a while – Thank You! I am happy to get back to writing again 😄 Been a minute. Picture this warm cozy place by the fireplace, some warm matcha/hot chocolate, a book and seeing the snow from outside your window. Take a deep breath. Welcome to this space, again. Curiously Yours - this will be my space for weekly ramblings, thoughts, provocations, questions and some recommendations on things I've been reading. Really happy to be able to get this going after sitting on it for years.
Lately, I have been reading and following a lot of Productivity content and some of you saw on my Instagram that I delivered a talk on it. While productivity is traditionally focused on outcomes and results, I want to take a breath here and just acknowledge how far we've come. There are 111 days left in 2024 (this is a crazy angel number joke on me haha...I promise I just Googled this right now!) Which, let us take as a positive sign, right? All of you have found me mostly from my YouTube videos and you are those people who read the description and everything I've written to connect with me - so Thank you again!
This year was tense & transformational. A lot of heartbreaks. A complete shake-up! Everything seemed to be an illusion. It was a discovery into the deep shadows of myself. There were times I asked myself why I am so gullible, optimistic, a fool and so trusting... and at times I am proud that I AM! There are few pure hearts in this world who keep real connections with people with no malice, no need and no self gain. I am happy being that person. I am happy with whatever has happened cause it has brought me to THIS moment. This moment where I am sitting in a cafe, enjoying Matcha and have a serious vision on writing. This moment where I am in a place that is calm and that is free of emotions except for my original emotion - happiness.
For me, my heaven, my spot is the house I was living in during Covid. It was a pure space. Me and Mocha. It was happy. Happy energy. Creative. No drama. And while Mocha is in a different energetic dimension right now, I am slowly returning to my weird, chill self.
There is so much I want to write and talk about with you! It will all happen slowly. I do write sometimes on my Instagram on themes like Energy, Karma, Vulnerability, Forgiveness etc because I keep thinking about this deeply.
What I want to share in this letter is WHY am I doing this? Why write? Why record meditations? What's the purpose? Let's start here for today.
Synchronicity is a word that has become synonymous with my life, lately. There are no coincidences. The timing is what it had to be! It is true, when people say, later you will understand why. So let me share two stories with you today. One - the Synchronicity and the other my Soul Purpose (so far). 🤓
The Synchronistic Story:
Truth be told, I was never into hardcore yoga before 2020. I loved Yoga retreats. I love philosophy and talking about controversial stuff (pyramids, ancient texts for example); being a Hindu and raised in a family that follows the Vedic practices of worship, I am supposed to know a lot but never really absorbed it into my consciousness.
During Covid, in 2020, some new people came into my life. And at the very same time, I signed up for Yoga Teacher Training without having ever attended a Yoga class in years. Coincidence. But there are no coincidences.
What followed...was a lot of self-enquiry - not something I was prepared for. Yoga is not asana alone, there are seven more facets, deep rooted in ancient Hindu beliefs and philosophy (and there so many parallels to other texts and civilizations too). Each class, we would talk about a different topic which led me to ask myself questions. I started watching YouTube videos asking questions about Soul, Purpose, Chakras, Karma, The Bhagvad Gita, Energy, Patriarchy, Reincarnation etc. And I don't know why, I was deeply attracted to Chakras and the Moon (which is what you all enjoy the most on my channel). And through this period of 200 hours and more of research and studying, something shifted in me. Or started to. I guess it was was my atha anushasam - the beginning.
I ask myself: Why then? Was I in some weird awakening cycle where I am meeting people that are kind of playing a role, throwing triggers (a lot of it happened overnight!) and bringing out this side of me that I really need to go deep and clean. Well, that's one explanation. And this story is still unfolding...
The Soul Purpose:
Fast forward four years later - I am still here. But by myself. Have lost people around me who were my partners, I can say. Have gained a lot more new people who are more me? And while it's just me alone, I can say I am beginning to feel whole again. I feel connected to what's around me...the universe(!) And I have really journeyed into myself through some dark times...to come to this place where I understand why I am doing this...
When I started The Curious Yogi I had told myself that if even ONE PERSON feels great after they spend a few minutes of their day with me, I have succeeded. And when I created this blog I wrote that as a mission - a community of collective consciousness. I don't think I knew what it meant back then.
Now with my self enquiry into myself and with my firm, firm belief that everything is energy, just like our friend Albert Einstein says - even thought is energy. I know my purpose is to create more of this energy with this community. So here I am. And I know in my gut, I have more to do here. Cause everything in the last four years has changed...except for this passion. It has only grown deeper.
So I want to start here and welcome you (back) to our space here.
📚 A few things I am reading, watching this week that intrigued me:
1. Signs that your Higher Self from the Parallel Universe is Sending you a message
3. Dr Tara Swart: The Neuroscience behind Manifestation
I can't wait to have the next coffee soon! ☕️
Lots of Love
Suchi (and Mocha - always in spirit 😇)
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