Its been a long time coming - shifting this site away from congruence yoga as a brand. I realized, belatedly that no better brand exists for me than me. Carlina Muglia. 1 of 1. That solves all the problems of needing a website for this thing here and yoga over there and film-making in a third place. The underlying truth is that all of those things are expressions of me - Carlina Muglia.
An aside: is it really any wonder it took me so long to figure this out? I was taught to mispronounce my own last name as a child so that US Americans could say it more easily. And I hated it. I hated the sound of my own mispronounced last name - MOOGLEEAH - so much that I didn’t even like to say it aloud. It took having a son who is keeping my last name to realize the mistake and correct it. My last name is beautiful and contains within it a distinctly Italian phoneme that is a gift of my culture to me. -GLI is pronounced as a unit ICYW. My full name Carlina Nicole Muglia is unique - there are no others.
I came here to write a thesis on what the intersection of film-making and yoga is. But in the processes I realized its just that simple. I am that. It me! I, Carlina Muglia, am the intersection of yoga and film-making. The way I live my life, the intentionality that I bring to it, my goal to do things holistically and with purpose - those intangibles flow through me. The actions I take, the words I speak and the thoughts I think are the union of my passions and expressions.
And as some final random thoughts that are related: “I am that.” in Sanskrit is an ubiquitous mantra “So’ham.” Also, yoga means union. So there we go. No thesis needed after all.
The web work is going on in the background. I’m trying to make a daily practice of it so that it becomes less daunting. I’m just as curious to see what happens next as you might be.