Sprout!

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I sliced open a clove of garlic this morning to find, instead of the pale yellow center I would have found in the dead of winter, a pale green and growing sprout. I cut an onion and find it, too, was beginning to sprout. How, I ask myself every year when I see this springtime miracle, does it know? Science, of course, answers me with talk of encoded DNA, but I know that, even beyond the truth of science, it is the miracle of prāna — the life force that animates not just us but all the world around us. And if this force is telling bulbs and seeds to begin to sprout isn’t it telling us the same thing?

For this exercise get ready by doing Inspiration – Just a Breath Away Exercise and then go seek out some sprouting life — whether outside or in your kitchen. Absorb the color; note the layers and the way they are ready to unfurl. Sense this unfurling power of prāna within yourself and allow yourself to express it in whatever creative way you want.