Divya Ma Lovingly's second book in the Happy Leaf series is a grateful and joyous dance through nature. Feelings are of paramount importance in this second series addition. In this new venture, we find Happy Leaf playfully twirled by the wind and warmed by the sun's smile. She asks us to join her in pure love, community and indeed happiness. We are thus infused with the childlike bliss of warm hearts as we sway and frolic with her in ultimate calmness. Divya's imaginative story accompanied by playful, heartwarming illustrations, teaches all of us to revel in natural wonder.
Divya Ma grew up Catholic in Manila, Philippines, and later became a yogic nun. She travelled in Bangkok, India, Jamaica, the United States, Mexico, and Canada, teaching meditation, yoga, and humanitarian services. She has been one of the pioneers in introducing yoga classes in U.S. public schools with preschoolers, elementary, and middle school students and teachers in the 1990s. Starting in 2000, she lived in a solar-powered yurt in the Ozark Mountains in Eureka Springs, Arkansas for about ten years. Presently, she lives with her spiritual partner, Gopala, in Wisconsin and Arkansas. Divya Ma describes the inspiration for her story this way: “One night, I was trying to sleep when I suddenly thought of a leaf that I saw one autumn day as I was walking on a trail surrounded by trees. The leaf brought a big smile to my face and touched my heart. I watched the leaf dance and dance until it landed softly on the ground. As I fell asleep, I imagined I was that leaf. Words, feelings, and images came flowing like a gentle river.”
Divya Ma grew up Catholic in Manila, Philippines, and later became a yogic nun. She travelled in Bangkok, India, Jamaica, the United States, Mexico, and Canada, teaching meditation, yoga, and humanitarian services. She has been one of the pioneers in introducing yoga classes in U.S. public schools with preschoolers, elementary, and middle school students and teachers in the 1990s. Starting in 2000, she lived in a solar-powered yurt in the Ozark Mountains in Eureka Springs, Arkansas for about ten years. Presently, she lives with her spiritual partner, Gopala, in Wisconsin.
Divya Ma describes the inspiration for her story this way: “One night, I was trying to sleep when I suddenly thought of a leaf that I saw one autumn day as I was walking on a trail surrounded by trees. The leaf brought a big smile to my face and touched my heart. I watched the leaf dance and dance until it landed softly on the ground. As I fell asleep, I imagined I was that leaf. Words, feelings, and images came flowing like a gentle river.”
