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Nature
is vibrant now and teeming with light.
Enjoy
this phase as the passage of time rolls forward and celebrate this
period of abundant light.
Now
is a good time to develop certain aspects of a Yogic
Lifestyle.
Through
Meditation, conscious living, diet, movement, connection with
nature, reading and asana. It's a great time for taking a short fast
from food. You could taking a break from speaking and work a day of
silence into your week. Enjoy the process of practicing emptiness
through stillness in digestion of both food and outward
communication. It's a lovely time for engaging conscious movement
whether it be through swimming, walking, kayaking, skating, rolling
or practicing asana.
Now is the time to feed the physical body through nourishing
movement that enlivens the prana in the body.
Whatever
you decide to embark on practice awareness in life. Awareness means
watching all that you do then watch the one who watches. This is
called enjoying the play.
Warmly,
Manorama |
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Working
the Yamas: Compassion
By
Manorama
Ahimsa
In
his Yoga Sutra, Patanjali offers a guide to freedom.
The yamas are the series of practices Patanjali lays out
and the first yama is ahimsa, which means non-violence or
compassion.
Why
do seekers of freedom keep returning to Patanjali's
principles? |
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They
return to be reminded of the foundation that everything is in
reality connected and one. The question arises what isn't yoga? The answer
is that everything is yoga. If one seeks freedom then to see
one's Self in others is the greatest truth. The wise remind us
that there is only oneness. Other questions arise: Do we
really gain ground by harming another? Is there any progress
made if one thing goes down while another goes up? Engaging
the yamas helps the aspirant develop a sense of connection
with these questions. In yogic lore, the period of the dawn or
dusk is considered the time of ahimsa becasuse it is the time
when the light and dark co-exist together. Similiarly by
practicing ahimsa the aspirant learns to perceive the
co-existence of the two operating forces in nature as one...
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Upcoming
July & August 2008 Workshops
The
Current of OM (Sun)
Fire
Ceremony, Meditation & Yogic Talk (Fri)
Yoga
Sutra Level I (Sat/Sun)
Mantra
and Meditation I - a
mini retreat (FRi-sAT)
Sanskrit
Level III (Sat-Sun)
And
coming up in September...
Intro
to Sanskrit & Intro to Yoga Sutra (Sat/Sun) | |
Meditation
Programs
with
Manorama
July
16th -
Guru & Mantra
Aug
20th -
Entrain with the Jivanmuktas & experience freedom!
13th
St and Broadway, NYC
212.353.0214
Summer
Highlight
Visit
this website &
watch
the video:
An
amazing video presentation and very informative...
It
will make you consider your relationship with the things around
you.
If
we aren't thoughtful about our relationship with things we will find
our life being swallowed by attending to things rather than to Self.
Too
much attention on things alone will rob us of the time in our lives
needed for being with Self. Be
sure what you want
to
spend time with.
~Manorama
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