Yoga Life

Carolina Carloto

Service is the rent you pay for a room on this earth. I had a mentor that used to say to me ‘If you don’t know what to do right now with life, then be on service to the world.’ I remember feeling even more confused with the idea of giving during times I (thought I) needed the most to receive. ‘Is he asking me to work for free? Is he saying I’m not doing enough? What if I’m not good enough to serve the world?’ The most significant way I serve is through movement and this becomes quite subjective as movement is a fleeting gift - you can’t keep movement in a box, you can’t frame it or even experience it twice in the same way. Movement as service is a re-discovery of the ‘I’ to the ‘oneness’. We contemplate moving energies shaping our bodies into infinite possibilities, experiencing its magic in the ephemerality of the moment. Movement taught me that: • there are unexpected solutions and unlimited possibilities within every breath; • as much as you are on a ‘free flow’, your mind will still choose the most familiar pathways; • there’s always a sense of rhythm even in silence; • your body is a portal for divine expression, but the body itself is just a body; • movement is a soul reflection that verbal communication cannot fully express or rationalize; • movement is the most essential sign of life; • if there was no pause, there would never be movement. I believe we are in service to the world in many ways throughout our lifetime. I’m eternally grateful for the ways I have chosen to serve (or that they chose me). As long as I’m able to offer them from a place of love, honesty and freedom - I’ll offer movement as medicine and art to every being.