7
May
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Love
The glowing heart of the sun rises and sets each day and belongs to no one. The Earth is cut up into segments of private property and national boundaries but no one owns the deed to the whole planet, except maybe all of us collectively unless we just have it on loan from future generations….
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30
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Speak with Love
The world feels like it’s turned on it’s axis. Love and hate seem all mixed up. Peace and war appear to be tangled up. The last six weeks have been utterly heartbreaking for me. I feel like I failed colossally, like I messed it all up despite my intentions. I know it’s not true. Dana…
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23
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Listen
Learning to truly listen is a skill that applies the core teaching of yoga to daily life. If you learn how to translate the lesson of deep inner listening through a cultivated state of mindfulness it can really change the quality of your relationships. But first, as always in yoga, you have to start with…
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15
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: The Teacher-Student Relationship
Om Saha Naav[au]-Avatu | Saha Nau Bhunaktu | Saha Viiryam Karavaavahai | Tejasvi Naav[au]-Adhiitam-Astu Maa Vidvissaavahai | Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih || Meaning: 1: Om, May God Protect us Both (the Teacher and the Student) (during the journey of awakening our Knowledge), 2: May God Nourish us Both (with that spring of Knowledge which nourishes life when awakened), 3: May we Work Together with Energy and Vigour (cleansing ourselves with…
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9
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Love-in Meditations
A difficult place along the long and winding road of awakening is the realization of how remarkably far you have come and also just how far away you actually are from where you want to go. You may feel frustrated, angry, depressed and just generally overwhelmed. I know I have felt all that over the…
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2
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Yatnah, Effort
The ancient spiritual path is built on the notion of personal discipline. Patañjali defines practice as abhyasa and says that it includes an element of effort, which is called Yatnah in Sanskrit. Practice is not and should not be easy. It leads you to a place of peace, but that great prize of peace is…
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26
Mar
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Awakening
Yoga is all about peace and love. Is that really true? Yes and no. Just like the practice itself sometimes feels both amazing and really challenging, I believe yoga is about giving you a deep and imperturbable peace and steeling your will so that you are strong enough to fight the good fight. Think about…
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18
Mar
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Satya, Truthfulness
Truth is neither convenient nor personal. It seeks out no harm, shares only light, bears out witness to the end of time. Truth needs no name-calling, blaming or hate attached to it. If you are an angel of truth, your words are kind, honest and just. In everything I have written I have taken great…
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11
Mar
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Individuality
It’s rare to meet someone with a true sense of individuality. People who don’t fit the mold are often those who have been rejected by the herd. They walk alone, sometimes wounded, often forgotten, until they find their rhythm and purpose, with or without other people behind them. I believe in many ways every yogi…
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4
Mar
2018
Ashtanga Yoga
Yogi Assignment: Facing Failure
We need look no further than ourselves to recognize that we live in a fallen world. There is not one human being who is perfect, living in absolute Divine harmony. We all stumble and fall. Our mistakes and our failures have the potential to teach us or to destroy us. If devolve into self-denigration you…
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