Still Learning. Still Loving. Still Becoming.

Peace Family, 

I thought it would be fitting for me to close out our theme of Becoming this month with a reflection that’s close to my heart.

In 2018, Marcus surprised me with tickets to our forever First Lady Michelle Obama’s Becoming tour at Capital One Arena for my birthday. I’ll never forget the excitement I felt walking into that arena—how much it meant to be in a room full of people who saw their own stories reflected in Michelle’s.

People who weren’t just there to hear a speech, but to be reminded of something we already knew but don’t often say out loud: that our lives, our journeys, our becoming—they matter.

As this month’s reflection on Becoming  deepened, I found myself returning to that memory and to Michelle’s words, where she writes:

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end. I became a mother, but I still have a lot to learn from and give to my children. I became a wife, but I continue to adapt to and be humbled by what it means to truly love and make a life with another person. I have become, by certain measures, a person of power, and yet there are moments still when I feel insecure or unheard. It’s all a process, steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.”

~Michelle Obama, Becoming (Epilogue)

That’s what this month has been about—not a quest for arrival, but a quiet, courageous commitment to forward motion.
To evolution.
To being honest with ourselves about where we are, who we are, and what we are still reaching toward.

Michelle Obama reminded us that even with titles, roles, and responsibilities—wife, mother, leader, First Lady—there is still more to learn. Still more becoming to do.
And that truth? It frees us.

It allows us to show up not as perfect people, but as present ones.
People rooted in love but unafraid to grow deeper.
People willing to unfold, to listen, to keep moving even when we feel uncertain or unseen.

This is what we hold space for at Sankofa.

We are not here to perfect ourselves.
We are here to become more of who we already are.
We are here to walk each other home—to remind one another that we are not behind, not broken, and not done

As we close this month’s theme, I invite you to ask yourself: Where am I still becoming? And what would it mean to choose action over fear?

Growth asks something of us.
It asks us to move differently. To choose differently. To show up even when it would be easier to stay the same.

At Sankofa, we’ve built spaces for this very work—through yoga, meditation, group therapy, and community practices.
Not for "one day" when you feel ready.
But for today.
For this version of you—the version that knows deep down there’s more unfolding to do.

Fear will offer you a hundred reasons to stay where you are.
Becoming asks you to trust yourself enough to take the next step.

We’re here when you're ready to move.
And if you’ve been waiting for a sign—this is it.

With you on the journey,
Tamisha
Co-Founder, Sankofa Yoga & Wellness Center