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TBW Guest: Stress & Resilience Coach DurgaMata of London

  1. TBW Guest: Stress & Resilience Coach DurgaMata of London twoboomerwomen 50:07

Such an interesting guest today!  Where to start…

Raised a Quaker; competitive white water canoeist; met her guru by accident… design?; teacher; silk painter; triathlete; habit stacker; musician; forest bather; story teller.

DurgaMata has been meditating for 40 years, and her life experiences have led her to this place where she coaches on stress relief and resilience.  

Covid has prompted her to take her workshops and retreats online.

You can find Durgamata at http://www.durgamataoflondon.com/

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Editor’s note:  I don’t mute DurgaMata’s pipe at the end – Zoom didn’t appreciate it!  🙁

At 25:36, DurgaMata mentions a book that really resonated with her.  The actual piece she read is 

“Freedom, absolute freedom, must be given each individual soul to discover its own path. Mistakes along the path of spirituality are not at all deplorable, for mistakes are simply lesser truths. We are not proceeding from falsehood to truth. We are proceeding from the least revealed truth to the most revealed truth.

Until we have realised God and have become one with God, we have to call upon Him as Master, Guide, Friend and so on. According to our relationship with Him, our attitude towards Him may vary. This is of  no consequence. What is of supreme importance is that we Love God as our very own. In our sincere love of God, we shall be inspired spontaneously to worship Him.”      Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971

The full article can be read at:  https://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/ysl-1

 

I’ve probably done most of the things you expect a woman my age to have done: married and divorced; three children; variety of jobs over the years including a couple of home-based businesses and, finally, a pretty good career; gave up that career (and home and life) to move and take care of a dementing mother; adult daughter moved back home with a baby; financial struggles; sucker-punched by the post-2007 economy. You tell a similar story.

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