What is Yoga?
- By onthemat
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- 28 Apr, 2016
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- Yoga is not wearing any make-up.
- Yoga is not blow drying your hair.
- Yoga is not looking in mirror; there weren’t any.
- Yoga is sleeping on wood beds with cushions, four to a room, with mosquito netting.
- Yoga is not eating a meal after 12 pm
- Yoga is waking at 4 am with an electrical coffee pot and your Starbucks packets from home.
- Yoga is chanting and meditating for an hour every morning at 5 am.
- Yoga is bottled water and tea, and no wine.
- Yoga is young nuns practicing Surya Namasakara A in pink robes with tight skirts.
- Yoga is teaching in make shift skirts out of shirts.
- Yoga is Seva (another post)
- Yoga is the sisterhood of the Sangha.
- Yoga is bringing the essence of the practice over 8000 miles across the globe.
- Yoga is falling in love with yoga all over again.
- Yoga is deep gratitude for the opportunity to share this journey with all of you.
- Yoga is coming home, forever changed.
On The Mat Yoga Blog
“There is a light in the core of
our being that calls us home—one that can only be seen with closed eyes; We can
feel it as a radiance in the center of our chest. This light of loving
awareness is always here, regardless of our conditioning. It does not matter
how many dark paths we have traveled or how many wounds we have inflicted or
sustained as we have unknowingly stumbled toward this inner radiance. It does
not matter how long we have sleepwalked, seduced by our desires and fears. This
call persists until it is answered, until we surrender to who we really are.
When we do, we feel ourselves at home wherever we are. A hidden beauty reveals
itself in our ordinary life. As the true nature of our Deep Hear is unveiled,
we feel increasingly grateful for no reason—grateful to simply be.”
—John J. Prendergast, PHD, The Deep Heart
Seems like it’s been rainy,
windy, dreary for eons. Which may have helped us shelter inside a bit more. I
remember reading years and years ago in a Seth book that weather can be
influenced, and even created by mass human emotion. Why not? We are far more powerful
than we currently acknowledge, and science is beginning to validate many
phenomena that had seemed inconceivable before. Those seemingly endless days of
“bad” weather seemed congruent with the emotional tone of covid her in New
England. And now SUN! Glorious, warming, invigorating, hope-filled Sun! Today I
will be outside basking and gardening and thanking. And I’m sure the whole
neighborhood, and most of New England will go outside, stand with our faces to
the sun and breathe a huge healing breath of joy. And maybe the collective
energy of that will resonate out across the word as a promise of brighter days
to come.
