Yoga has given me purpose, like it once did for my father

Yoga has given me purpose, like it once did for my father

Malindi, Kenya In 1967, Tanzania’s socialist rulers seized all my parents’ property — their ranchland, their home and their cattle — and overnight my father saw the fruits of all his labor taken from him. He had no time to dwell on his misfortune, since he had a wife and four children to support, so at the age of sixty he picked himself up and vanished off to work in Somalia. My father’s last words were ‘yoga breathing’ and he died smiling We w…