While hammering nails and cutting planks in the prop department at New York¡¯s Lincoln Center for the Metropolitan Opera in the early 2000s, Barry Silver never dreamed of a life in Japan.
After halting his youthful downward spiral with the help of meditation and yoga, Silver took a series of odd jobs in order to dedicate himself fully to his yoga practice.
As a trained actor in off-Broadway productions, Silver had imagined himself on stage more than backstage. ¡°I always wondered why I was swinging a hammer,¡± he recalls. ¡°Yet it connected me to building Hindu temples for my yoga teacher in New York, and it¡¯s indirectly the reason I became a teacher myself. Many of the great blessings that happened in my life had nothing to do with me planning them, so I¡¯ve gained a great deal of trust in what is coming.¡±
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