healing through homa fire

Alx prehoma
Originally uploaded by alxindia.

talking about homas, fire ceremonies, here's some photographic evidence of a healing homa that Jonathan & I did in San Jose in April of this year.

we built the pit from fire-proof bricks, covered it in turmeric, kum-kum (the red powder Indian women wear on their foreheads), and roses...

that's me, flailing to get some incense open so that everyone could hold a few pieces, and a rose, and chant a healing mantra, in this case the Gayatri mantra, 108 times out loud together.