Carried by a Promise

On the first week­end of Octo­ber we had the plea­sure of host­ing Swami Rad­hananda for a book read­ing at Lotus Books, a sat­sang and a 3 hour work­shop, “Yogic Tools for Trans­for­ma­tion.” Approx­i­mately 20 peo­ple were present to hear her read from her inspir­ing story of per­sonal change, com­mit­ment and devo­tion to her teacher, Swami Radha. I per­son­ally enjoyed learn­ing about her process of review­ing her jour­nals and see­ing the ‘threads’ that were there all along. She encour­aged all of us to keep a jour­nal of our own sto­ries. With­out jour­nal­ing, this book would not have been pos­si­ble! The work­shop took us on a per­sonal jour­ney that was truly amaz­ing in its sim­plic­ity yet pro­found­ness. It was such a plea­sure to have her in our pres­ence, guid­ing us in using the yogic tools that trans­formed her into Swami Radhananda.

Joanne Bel­langer