Welcome To Wake Up

Photo by Asha Brogan

​Wake Up! Awake! Arise! Are you up yet? Have you awakened to yourself? To the possibility of Life?

I am a 56 year old woman, and I feel I have been waking up my whole life.  Nudging here, pushing there, and many lives worth of outright, fantastical happenings propelling me out to the world and back to myself again and again.​

And loooong stretches of depression when it seemed waking up was buried so deep under layers of life that I couldn’t wake up.  I used to have a constant dream of being asleep and trying to wake up but, I could not–could not move my arms or legs, could not open my eyelids, could not tell anyone that I WAS awake. My body just would not cooperate, but that was just a dream, or was it? 

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I have not had that dream in over 10 years because that deep layer of powerlessness has started to thaw, has broken up, has woken up.​
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This blog will be about that awakening,  and others.  How I came from there to here. How I came all the way from a small town in Michigan to an even smaller town in Ohio, only to meet my teacher who moved me into life and more possibilities than I had ever imagined.

​My name is Bodhanaa Nithyananda.  It means Eternal Blissful Awakening. This blog is dedicated to Mahadev, Swamiji.  Join me in the journey of Waking Up!