Is It Playtime Yet? On Surrendering to your gift and cultivating your local communities

During my many moons living in Venice, California, I got the chance to visit the Agape Spiritual Centre, led by Rev. Michael Beckwith. One concept he speaks about has stayed with me ever since: shifting your day-to-day experience of life from ordinary to ordained.

The shift of perspective that every day is a miracle. That the ordinary moments are truly special. That we live in a world where everyone seems to want fantasy and no one wants to sit with reality.

Cultivate Your Local Communities

Social media has been wonderful in helping us create and cultivate a global community. But what I have experienced in my own life, and see so often in the lives around me, is that local communities are not as strong. We long to connect with friends from around the world, while the person who lives just down the street remains a stranger.

The work of cultivating a local community is real work. It is more than liking posts and commenting on photos. It is about being open to meeting in person, being authentic and vulnerable together. To spend quality time with your local community is one of the most powerful ways to move your life from ordinary to ordained. As we get older, there is nothing more precious than good friends who become family.

Surrender to Your Gift

It took me close to six years to really discover and learn that I was already expressing my gifts. I was searching. Travelling. Looking everywhere outside of myself. Until one day my husband Robindra asked me: what is it that would make you really happy?

I told him I wanted to help Mexican women feel empowered. He smiled back at me and said: you, my darling, are the Mexican woman you need to empower first. Then the rest will be easy.

From that conversation, everything changed. I stopped looking for my gift and started living it. The gift was already there. It had always been there. It just needed to be declared.

Your gift is not something you find. It is something you stop hiding.

Every piece I design in this collection is about women feeling beautiful, themselves, stylish, sacred, powerful, and graceful in everything they do. That is the gift, expressed through cloth and colour and the hands of 30 Balinese artisan families who make it all possible.

Is it playtime yet? It is. It has always been. Say yes.

With love,
Myrah

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A Piece for This Threshold

Sat Torri Rainbeau Playsuit

For the woman who has stopped hiding her gift. Botanically hand-dyed in Bali over four to seven days. 100% stonewashed linen. Wide-leg, playful, completely itself. No two are exactly alike. That’s not a caveat. That’s the point.

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