{"id":337,"date":"2012-11-09T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omlinkyoga.net\/w\/?p=337"},"modified":"2012-11-09T20:58:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T20:58:34","slug":"yoga-stirring-the-ingredients-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.omlinkyoga.net\/w\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Yoga = Stirring the Ingredients = Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently been wondering about how “easy” it is for yoga practitioners to get off their yogic practice path and fall into illness, sadness and\/or depression. \u00a0It always surprises me how when someone new to yoga marvels about their feelings of balance and peace. \u00a0Shortly thereafter, they are equally amazed about how the experience dissipated. \u00a0True hatha yoga is about energy cultivation. \u00a0This classical hatha yoga from India is a process for the art of living well. \u00a0 There are so many priorities in our world that may confuse or overwhelm us. \u00a0When we give up on ourselves we are allowing everything else to have power over us. \u00a0In fact zapping and depleting \u00a0our energy, and then what are we left with? Satsang can be translated to community for conscious exchanges and yoga classes can be our satsang. \u00a0When we have others around to help us stay on the path, to share their experiences, concerns and discoveries this all helps us in our own trust in our yoga.<\/p>\n

One way to keep the glimmer of satsang is to keep inspirational texts close by to muse. \u00a0In this age of the internet, Youtube and blogs we can see, listen and follow those who share conscious living quite easily. \u00a0Like refreshing your computer screen these little visits refresh our outlook – inwards as well as outwards. \u00a0I found this quote from Sadhguru that helps me as a teacher see what may be happening for practitioners:<\/p>\n

“…The science of yoga essentially means this – even a little baby, if you pinch him, he will cry because he can feel his body. \u00a0But he may not be able to feel his thoughts and emotions to start with: he can just feel his body. \u00a0So the body is the first thing he feels. \u00a0The journey of yoga is to take you from the body, to different dimensions of who you are, to the ultimate core….in that sense…then you may be equipped.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of us when overwhelmed lose our memory of our wellness when the “other” priorities take over. \u00a0In these depressed economic climates it is understandable that people are juggling priorities to stay protected in their work environments. \u00a0But is it worthwhile to forget ourselves and lose our personal power\/ourselves? \u00a0While awaiting\u00a0Sandy – the Epic Storm of our Lifetime,\u00a0<\/strong>I have noticed so many institutions actually offering concern, guidance, and even compassion. \u00a0Banks offering forgiveness due to projected lapses due to the storm. \u00a0Businesses closing days early, cities closing public transport and roadways, colleges sending dormitory student populations home days ahead. \u00a0All this to get families together to manage the crisis as a unit, perhaps as a financial decision that does in fact allow for some family bonding. \u00a0Rather amazing that the crisis elevates institutions to compassionate legislation and executive decisions. \u00a0Do we have to wait for a crisis of an even greater magnitude for executive decisions to remind us to stay on our yogic path. \u00a0Perhaps yes? \u00a0Sadhguru commented when asked \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“is 2012 the end of the world?” –\u00a0What is there to worry about if the world is over, no worries he says! \u00a0<\/em>Our real concerns are what to do with our problems plaguing us with the environment, poverty, famine, corruption, etc. \u00a0How easily we can be distracted from the main event!!! We can become so numb that we cannot see how our thoughts are distracting us from our real priorities to be effective in all aspects. \u00a0We rather contemplate doomsday prophecies than work on solutions to the real crises that plague us. \u00a0We are in general the type of being who lapse in our practices and fall ill or sick, time and time again. \u00a0We can become like the little baby who cries when pinched…because we ignored the information at the mental, emotional, energetic screens.<\/p>\n

What does Sadhguru mean when he says…“then you may be equipped” ?\u00a0<\/em>Equipped to grow up towards: strength, health & well-being, compassion for self and others, higher creativity, mental clarity with ease, higher powers of intuition, successes in all endeavors, these follow once the equipment is in place. \u00a0The question I continually have for practitioners is are we doing hatha yoga for exercise? \u00a0When classical yoga is anaerobic not aerobic, one should not confuse the two and both activities are necessary for optimal health. \u00a0True hatha yoga is like stirring a pot of soup to mix the ingredients, to blend and marry the flavors evenly….after some time when we stop stirring the ladle in the pot the ingredients slow the revolutions until it comes to a dead stop….stillness. \u00a0Are we doing hatha yoga for energy cultivation and harmony then why stop the stirring before we are ready for a full stop? \u00a0 Frankenstorm aka Sandy is stirring up lots…are we equipped to manage during the storm and equally important to handle the aftermath? \u00a0Namaste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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