I really enjoyed last weekend’s Yamas & Niyamas workshops with Lila Lolling at Sri Yoga Center. I came away with a deeper understanding of the restraints and observances and took a deeper look inside to see where I am in embracing them in my life. In pondering the journal inquiries, I had to look [...]
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Rod Stryker reminds us that true yoga is alchemy for the mind and has little to do with the shape of our body. I feel fortunate and very grateful that when I stumbled into yoga, I found two teachers whose style was influenced by Rod Stryker’s Parayoga. Like most people, I [...] I found what I thought was a very inspirational quote at Spoiled Yogi: Tell us what inspires you so we can be inspired, too. When I get on my mat at sunrise to sit for a few minutes and perform a handful of sun salutations, maybe chanting a few rounds of the gayatri mantra, [...] “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.Drop everything else but [...] An interesting video on how we can’t control the contents of our mind because it absorbs everything that happens around us. It’s like a garbage can but we don’t have to live in it.
Namaste “Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself [...] I was perusing some yoga blogs this evening when I came across Deep Thoughts on Grounding Thru the Sit Bones. The post was about how wisdom comes with age and the differences in how we expend our energies and place our priorities in our youth and in our later years. I particularly liked the [...] Today I found an interesting article on Sweep the dust, Push the dirt, Karma. No Escape! ~ A guest post by Rev. Trevor Maloney which made my understanding of the concept of karma a bit clearer to me. Karma is a teaching that allows us to take full responsibility for our lives, both for [...] I found this in Yoga Journal’s Yoga Diary, an excerpt from Getting Nerdy with Tantra by Karen Macklin, about a lecture on Tantric Yoga by Chris Tompkins: Tantra, which came after classical yoga, had two new revolutionary offerings: 1 – it offered the possibility of liberation in this lifetime (as opposed to having to [...] |
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