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​Lead Me Home
Lyrics by Rik Avalos
Music by Joe Clieplinksi and Rik Avalos
Video by Victoria Callor
 
I traveled a million miles
To find my way home
No eloquence, caviar, as I abrogate style
Did I lose you when I began to roam?
 
I walked the water
Learning life’s an island in time
No deception
And survival has escaped my mind
 
You seemed surprised to see the crazed sycophant
I lost my fear and my will to lead is coming back
Let’s vivify this moment and freeze this instant in time
Lead Me Home
 
I walked the water
Learning life’s an island in time
No deception
And survival escaped my mind
 
Lead me home
’Cause I lost so long ago
Lead me home ’
Cause I lost so long ago
 
And when I wake up I just want to see
A sweet confidence built up inside.
To see the person I had once known
Somehow lead me home
 
I’m all that was left of me
Over time...
 
I walked the water
Learning life’s an island in time
No deception
And survival has escaped my mind
 
And somehow I needed you; it was love
Yes, I found I needed you; it was love
Lead Me home
’Cause I lost so long ago

​Hope can manifest itself as a small spot of light in the darkness of depression.  Let that be your encouragement, your incentive. 
 
Be drawn into the light of hope. Allow yourself to walk towards it, touch it, feel it.  It will be your beginning.  Darkness cannot last in the light.
 
Yoga Therapy can help. 

Sometimes there is a whisper that everything isn’t quite right.   You can’t figure out what it is, but it is there.  You have everything in your life to make you happy, but you’re not.  Could it be that you are depressed?  
 
 Yoga therapy can help.

Lead me home with love, love for myself.  It was lost so long ago.  Take a few moments to stop.  Notice the quality of your thoughts.  Let them be full of self-compassion. 

​Place your hands on your heart, bringing awareness there.  Notice what you feel.  Does your heart have something to say to you? Listen. Find the love.  It will lead you home.

​Yoga Therapy helps with depression.  There are poses/postures/forms that calm the mind, open the heart and strengthen the body.  There are breathing practices that increase focus, helping to reduce mental fog, bringing more oxygen into the physical body, and creating better health.  Meditations help with clearing the mind, bringing clarity and vision for a hopeful future. 

All these tools, when used by a skilled yoga therapist, help someone who is depressed to find the courage and insight to step out of the darkness of depression into the light.

The Noble Heart by Pema Chödrön and read by Debra Wheeler.  The noble heart is present in all beings.  It is found in the tenderness of pain itself.  It is that brilliant jewel that can be brought out into the light at any time.  The noble heart is inside of you. ❤️

​Within the throes of depression, it is easy to get lost, at least lost from whom we were. We may wonder; Where is the cheerful, vibrant person?  Where is the assertive, confident person?  Where is the person who takes joy in simple things, like a clean house, shopping, cooking, playing with children?  Where is the person who loves to read, play the piano, talk with friends, go to a movie?  Where, where, where?
 
Struggling, the pleading goes on, please lead me home, home to MYSELF.
 
Let me wake up to see ME, radiating sweet confidence.
Let me be the person I remember…
 
please…
 
Lead me home…

​No matter how hard your depression becomes, know that deep inside of you is a door, open it, even if just a crack.  You will find that that small effort will be the beginning of healing.