capturing essence

On a journey across lands of old, retracing the Ramayama and relating it's relevance to yoga today,  photographing yogis, gurus and the expressions of spiritually I find across the world. Recently in the midst of my frustration over trying to display images that I feel represent me as an artist, Miss 'M' had to flay me with the question, “who are you, who are you?” The whipping stick finally broke the shell of outer considerations of what I think is expected of me,

DONT WANT NO RELIGION

Meditation is the foundation common to all religions and belongs to none and all of them. It is not a religious practice unless it is practiced religiously with continuity. Yoga predates Hinduism by a goat-load of centuries. It is a holistic system of body/mind/nature balance more related to Ayurveda than to any dogma. Buddhists, Christians, Sufis, Hindus all practice yoga in harmony with their individual practices. 
Some say yoga connects one's consciously to the "higher".