~ Thru Soulful Eyes ~
I am a woman in her fifties. A mother, grandmother, writer, traveler, and lifelong student of Yoga. I have learned, over time, to pay attention.
I am drawn to movement and stillness in equal measure: to journals written on trains passing through unfamiliar landscapes, to shared meals and conversations with strangers, to photographs that quietly witness what words sometimes miss. Yoga, its philosophy, practice, and lived inquiry, has been my steady companion through joy and grief, certainty and unknowing, love, illness, and change.
A moment of an Introspective Heart
We are given a brief and precious window in this life. How we live within it matters.
Life, and yoga has taught me that my sense of freedom does not come from controlling the world, but from understanding what is mine to tend, my actions, my words, my thoughts, and the lens through which I meet my experiences. In learning where my responsibility ends, I have discovered an unexpected abundance… gratitude, humility, resilience, and a growing trust in life itself.
This practice has shaped how I move through the world: with curiosity instead of certainty, compassion instead of judgment, and a willingness to remain teachable. It has taught me to hold joy and sorrow without turning away, to see beauty without denying pain, and to recognize that suffering, when met honestly, often carries the seeds of healing.
I strive, imperfectly and daily, for ahimsa – non-harm in thought, speech, and action. A compass that helps me return when I lose my way. When I fall short, I practice reflection and make a heartfelt attempt toward repair and forgiveness, knowing that the offering may not always be received and without assuming the outcome is mine to decide.
This path is not without fear, doubt, loss, or the humbling moments that bring us to our knees. And still, it is held by faith, a faith in something larger than myself, in the intelligence of the natural world, and in the quiet divinity that lives within us all.
Through Thru Soulful Eyes, I write and reflect from this place, a lived practice rooted in Yoga, shaped by experience, and guided by a desire to meet life with honesty, reverence, and care—so that no one who arrives here feels they must be anything other than human.”
An inner awareness of Self and the Peaceful Power of the intelligence behind our breath can become our guide. Giving us the tools to FACE our discomforts, to FLOAT through our experiences of life with a POSITIVE attitude while letting TIME and LOVE soften and heal our sweetly broken hearts.
~Leora
Thru soulful eyes 