First Post

So….today my web-site is ready and out!
It has been quite a journey -- it feels as if I just gave birth to a baby! About seven years ago, Jerome, who had participated in my workshops, out of love and gratitude offered me to do the web-site, as this is his job. I thanked him and declined the offer, because I did not feel any pull to get busy with that kind of thing. In fact, to tell the truth, I did not even know what a web-site was! I myself hardly knew how to write and send e-mails, I had never surfed, so the computer world was very far away… I must have unconsciously felt it was too big a project and I was not ready for it. In that period of my life, the only work I considered valuable was happening in the group or session rooms, all the rest were distractions!
Later on, several people mentioned it to me, encouraging me to make one, saying it was a ‘must’ for someone who does what I do, which is leading workshops around the world.
Then, less than a year ago, I was sitting in the coffee shop at Mumbai Airport, about to go traveling for six months, non-stop, living out of my suitcase -- the first stop being Tel Aviv.
While I was sipping a beer, enjoying my last moments in beloved India, I noticed Anada coming into the bar. I used to see her in the advertising office of the Osho Multiversity in Pune, and now she was on her way to Thailand.
We spent some time together, while waiting for our respective flights, and she told me she creates web-sites and offered to do one for me. Later, in Mallorca, I met Anada again, and in the meantime the idea had taken root inside me, so I asked her to explain to me what it was, and what I should put in it, and also to show me what she had done.
Anada’s enthusiasm for her work had an impact on me and this meeting definitely changed something in my attitude. I knew that my web was on its way, it was just question of time. So, thank you, Anada.
It happened that Shola, a beautiful, juicy and talented Italian sannyasin, was available when I got back to India, and she was ready for this project. Shola is the one who made the design, which I find really beautiful and elegant. I had a great time with her, but I’m not so sure she could say the same, as I have been really “on her case” since we started: calling her, writing e-mails several times a day….And I must say, she has always been available, in good mood, open for changes and improvements. I really thank her for her creativity, patience, dedication, sense of humor. I suggest anyone who wants a web to connect with Shola.
Before Shola, a lot of the basic writing work happened with Subhuti, a former journalist, who for about two weeks spent every afternoon with me, correcting my texts, while we were drinking vanilla tea and chit-chatting about men, women, relationships, fantasies and sex. You see, I felt I had to entertain him, so he would not be bored reading and writing about Primal pain and wounds and deep emotions all the time….. So, thank you Subhuti, for your work, and for those lovely afternoons.
By the way, Subhuti is a wonderful ghost writer, so if you are planning to write a book, please connect with him. I am not ready yet for a book, it is another seed that maybe one day will sprout, but for now…. I am too busy…. However, I read a couple of books he wrote and I really liked them.
Also, a big thank you to Nikhil and his staff, who did the technical part of the website. Not only did Nikhil put it on-line, which is something like a magic for me -- I wonder how he did that! -- but he also had to put up with all the demands and the ‘exceptions’ from two crazy Italian women, Shola and me – not to mention my resistance to having this blog!
He really had to spend much time talking me into making a blog, as I was even refusing to listen about it! By the way, I have been told that there are no errors in this web-site, which is very rare! Again, I don’t exactly know what it means, but it sounds great.
So….if you want an error free web, you are welcome to connect with Nikhil.
There is someone else who contributed: Claude, who took the photos of me, that. As you can see, they are very beautiful. I needed new pictures, as I had recently cut my hair, and obviously I wanted to present myself with this new look, which is also the manifestation of a different energy that I have, and I was in a hurry, as – once again -- I had to leave India the next day. Claude came with his huge professional camera and his girlfriend Samasati, who decided that my pink nightgown was the most suitable outfit for the session!
So….now my website is out, done, delivered! It gives me the feeling I can be in touch with many people; that I am out there, in the market place, not just hiding in a group-room. And this is the famous blog that I did not want, but now I have, thanks to Nikhil. I will use this space to write some impressions/insights/ideas, to copy some interesting articles/quotes etc. and to keep you informed of news in the program or in the schedule.
Let’s meet again soon.
With love.
Shakura