Star Trek Day

Dear friends,

Tomorrow is Star Trek Day. The original TV series first aired on September 8, 1966, and that anniversary is worth celebrating!

USS Enterprise NCC-1701

I have shared with you before that I absolutely love Star Trek - I'm just a total Trekkie. I am enamored by producer Gene Roddenberry's view of the future. He saw it as something hopeful and positive.

People from all parts of this world (and Vulcan!) were represented on the bridge of the Enterprise. The crew was diverse but they worked together well and respected each other. Their main job was "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations." The show was filled with curiosity, humor, and creative conflict resolution—all wrapped up in just 42 minutes!

It was a campy, but beautiful, vision of an idyllic tomorrow. Given all of the conflict and turmoil of our current times, I really love this alternate version of the future.

And here’s where we make the bridge to yoga (pun fully intended!). Yoga is all about connection. We link breath to movement, body to mind, and ourselves to something greater. When we practice, we touch on this truth: we are all far more alike than we are different

We're all on a journey of exploration. But instead of traveling through the stars, our journey is inward—the exploration of the self. The more we practice our yoga, the more clearly we come to understand our own true nature.

So, in honor of Star Trek’s 59th anniversary, I've decided to focus on a future filled with possibility - a future where we treat each other with kindness, where we explore the strange and unknown with curiosity, and where we can live in hope.

Please join me on your mat.

Live long & yoga,

Nina G