02/16/2026
After a few very full weeks (and being cooped up in the freezing cold!), I’ve been craving the extraordinary culture this city has to offer.
Going to the Brooklyn Museum to experience the portraits of Seydou Keïta was just the medicine I needed.
We walked slowly through the exhibit talking about the history of Mali and the transition of West Africa to independence… then we sat in meditation together under the great chandelier in the Beaux-Arts Court.
Art, then stillness, then integration.
In the end, we paired up with one another and looked into one each other’s eyes to see each our creative and highest self, then we shared it out loud.
To witness art and then be seen like that is powerful.
Afterward, we shared thieboudienne and mafé at Café Rue Dix, with meaningful conversation, vulnerability, and real connection.
Several women in this circle are coming on the Senegal retreat this year, and the whole day felt like a bridge, Brooklyn meeting Dakar.
Someone asked at dinner, “When are we doing this again?”
So I’m thinking about it…
Perhaps another gathering at Metropolitan Museum of Art — explore art, meditate, then eat food from that culture. Stay tuned.
DM me if you’d come.
Or take it further, join on retreat and explore art, culture, and consciousness around the world.
This is yoga off the mat.
This is community/sangha.
