What happened? Where did I go?

Hi everyone! My name is Lucia Cordeiro Drever and I was a devoted student of the Yoga Sūtra-s of Patañjali for many years. I then became a mother and my life energy has been dedicated largely to raising two incredible human beings. In the meantime, I have also become a psychotherapist. But to be honest, I also believe my capacity to understand the sūtra-s had reached its limit. I now look back and realize that going forward with this blog at that time, would have been forcing something I didn’t have back then to give. Like trying to force juice out of an orange that has already been pressed to its limit.

Back then I also thought that keeping myself anonymous was good for my ego. And maybe it was. I also read from many of you saying it made you feel unsafe to not know the author. I understand that well now. So here I am, revealing my identity as a way to make us all feel more connected.

I would also like to emphasize that I don’t consider myself an expert on the Yoga Sūtra-s of Patañjali. I am a Uruguayan-Brazilian woman who lives in the US and has travelled numerous times to India to study the sūtra-s, yet I am no expert. Seriously. But I do love reading them, studying them, discussing them and having their wisdom help transform my life.

So I am delighted to be returning to this wonderful project! Please interact as much as you would like to! I deeply believe that as we share, not only are we giving, but we also receiving from others because we have so much to learn from one another. I look forward to the giving and receiving!