What do you do with a daydream?
Do you take it seriously and run with it like a tall order of magic? Do you shoo it away like a silly thing? Does it linger above you like a cloud of star dust, a little dark and stormy, a little bright with possibility?
If you’ve read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic you know all about the magic in the air. About ideas and when they come to you and where they go when you don’t take them from the sky. They find someone else. It’s not a personal thing, but they’re alive. I’ve come to see this in my life as magically true.
My Daydream~
My best friend and I live thousands of miles apart and parallel lives. We've always been connected on some energetic level. Like we've come here together from some other life. One day we must live in the same place. We open a studio. On the coast of a sea. Sand and jagged rock. Rolling waves as our music. A blue sky, a sandstone building with olive trees and rockrose, rosemary and those desert shrubs with the light, dusty green leaves. She's a doula, birthing magic into this world, nurturing mothers with love and support to the most primal experience a woman can have. I teach yoga, holding space for those cultivating their gifts. Moving meditation and yoga therapy for those who seek reminder that the answers are already within. We call it Nima. the first part of both of our names. Now, I don’t know if this will ever occur. But the daydream felt too special to shoo away. So I keep it tucked away in my back pocket, for potential is never a waste of space. Maybe a daydream isn’t the actual vision come to life, but a part of it. The name, Nima, both of our names met in the middle, felt like something. So I looked up the meaning and here’s what I found.
In Sanskrit: A female name that is popular in India, Nima means "half-moon". It is derived from the Sanskrit name "Purnima", which means "full" (pur) + "moon" (nima). Nima may have ties to the Hindu god Shiva, who is often depicted with a crescent moon on his head
In Persian: a male name for "just" or "fair". In Persian culture, the name symbolizes the enduring nature of blessings
In Arabic: Nima means "blessing"
Yoga has been nothing short of a blessing in my life. It’s kept me honest and fair in my body, relationships, and heart. It’s been an open space through every cycle of growth when I just needed a place to land. A 2x5 church. A mirror. A cushion to fall on my knees. A place that will love me guts-out and crying or upside-down flying in my strength.
It’s no studio by the Mediterranean (I’ll say, YET, because no way would I close off that door), but I have full intention of providing one thing- space.
Space for you to breathe, move, write, read, lay down. I’ll say what I say in-studio, “sometimes we just need a place to be. If that means this is the only time of day you can attend and you just want to be in savasana the whole time or child’s pose through a whole flow, please do so.”
Instead of seeing yoga as something you should "do" what if yoga was choosing a moment, opening your hands, and allowing the blessing?
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And what an ode to our friendship. She is a blessing in my life and I’m not sure who I’d be without her influence. Cheers to your daydreams.
NIMA.
I love you, friend.
~Nicole
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~ 04. Level 2: Grace & Strength