Welcome to Series 2 of Vegetation: Meditation in Community. We are so glad you are here. We are beyond grateful for the love and support we have received from our digital village since our launch, and are so excited to share Episode 1 of our new series, Origin Stories. In this series we invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we named this sacred practice of Vegetation. This week’s episode, Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla, begins the series with an exploration into what it was like growing up in the US as first generation children of immigrants. We felt like we were consistently failing at cultivating a relationship with our ancestors, our parents’ homelands, and our cultural heritage, while also being submersed in discomfort about never fully fitting into the American life around us. Join us as we reflect on some of our first attempts to create these connections, while recognizing–with love and empathy for our Past Selves–that these connections have been here all along. RESOURCES and LINKS Selena, Fotos y Recuerdos  Arangetram Vastu Shastra Bagua map Moon Chola Creating altars and the importance of intention (in Spanish)  Episode Music: Fashion Chill Hip Hop, Ivymusic from Pixabay Second Wind, madirfan from Pixabay Together Forever,  from Pixabay Summer Forest, NaturesEye from Pixabay Jho Deep - Rain, Mepa ExyZ from Pixabay Pause, madirfan from Pixabay What’s next? Over the next several weeks we will release new episodes from our series Origin Stories and share how we discovered our life’s passion of cultivating the next generation through the foundation of Vegetation. In our next episode we continue our discussion about how we are connecting to our ancestors and some of the challenges we are encountering in our multicultural households while raising children and reconnecting with ourSelves. Stay in conversation We hope you're enjoying the Vegetation: Meditation in Community podcast. We’d love to hear your reactions and feedback on this and future episodes. Stay in conversation with us on Instagram (@TharavadaYoga), Facebook (@TharavadaYoga), and/or send us an email at TharavadaYogaChat@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vegetation/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vegetation/support