Mind, Body & Soul: A humble yogi’s calling to serve mother nature
“Namaste is something I’ve learned,” Jesus Barajas, 27, says. “It means, I honor the teacher within me, that’s within you, that’s within all things. I’ve honored my internal teacher since a young age.” Photos by Tom Sanders When Jesus Barajas was 13, he walked out of a Wednesday night service at his family’s church and never looked back. His mother later asked him what was wrong. He pointed at the stars. “This is my teacher. This is my church,” Barajas recalls telling her. From that night forward, he stopped attending church with his family. “My intuition was pointing me elsewhere,” Barajas says. Instead of church, he began visiting secluded spaces in the countryside of Bakersfield, California, where his family lived. He sat by Kern River. He walked through the Sequoia National Forest. “All I knew was, go to the nature and shut up,” Barajas says. “Shut your mind, shut your lips and listen to the birds, the winds and the ocean.” Barajas, now 27, is soon to be the sole owner of Earth Yoga RB—currently known as Sunshine Yoga—in Redondo Beach. He instructs alongside a staff of six other yogis in the minimalistic studio hidden atop the Green Temple Restaurant. “It’s the most important…
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