Lexie’s reflection on sangha, Vedic fire ceremonies, and spiritual training, exploring ritual, community, and the deep human act of remembering.

From fever and kitchari to gooseberries and sacred mantra, Lexie explores healing, Ayurveda, and how body, mind, and spirit remember how to heal.

I take refuge in love.

This was a mantra I repeated to myself in the past few weeks, a period of spiking anxiety.

A mantra adopted aspirationally. As mantras sometimes are.

Because sometimes I do not. Take refuge in love, that is. Rather, when I feel the weight of the world or the voices of my fears amplify, I turn away from what I know to be true. I curl up into a little ball inside myself and forget that I am loved. That I am love. That there is nothing in this life that matters except that love.