Archive for ‘Inquiry & Insights’
Life as we “know” it…….
Posted: Saturday, September 22nd, 2012. . . . . Om Hrim, Namah Sivaya Do you realize the life force that keeps things alive is in service to the thing that consumes life? Prana, the divine life force, is in service to Agni, the sacred fire. Fire is dependent on matter and air. The gross body, our home, the physical [...]
Tags: Agni, body, fire, gross body, life force, Om, Prana, subtle body
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Cleansing? How is your fire?
Posted: Thursday, September 20th, 2012Thoughts of cleansing ring inside and out. Many express the desire and some the need to cleanse. It is fall, nature and the body are giving signals of slowing down and releasing the results of the growing season – leaves turning color and falling to the earth. And friends, practitioners, and local communities are gathering [...]
Tags: Agni, anxiety, balance, body, bones, cleanse, digestion, emotion, fire, gross body, Hatha Yoga, life, life force, mind, stress, subtle body, transform, Yoga
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The need to rest?
Posted: Tuesday, April 17th, 2012The appropriateness for Savasana Does your practice leave you desiring Savasana – the corpse pose? Do you tend to fall asleep in Savasana? How do you feel 1 hour later after practice? 2 hours after? the next morning? Savasana is considered one of the most difficult asana is in my observation overtaught and too often [...]
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Your Fire – Life’s Digestive and Creative Element
Posted: Monday, April 16th, 2012The transformative path The digestive fire burns like an upside down caldron The fuel arrives in the stomach. The combustion, or transformation from matter to components, happens from the stomach to the colon, especially in the small intestine. The essence of the food, after all components are separated and distributed, is absorbed into the ethers [...]
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Bearing your Burden
Posted: Thursday, April 12th, 2012Letting go of old patterns which halt your freedom can be a challenging action. We sense and experience these traps in the mind and they play out into the physical body with symptoms such as aches and pains, nausea, tremors, cold feelings. Stationary standing postures that elicit the essential nature of our being are [...]
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Our feet like our hands…
Posted: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012YES!!! our feet have the same capacity as our hands? I am very impressed with this gentleman’s function, especially the power he has developed in his feet. The use of a hammer and powertools, notice the ability to use the lathe! From a neurological view, the homunculus of the somatosensory cortex, the motor and sensory [...]
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our time is now…..
Posted: Saturday, April 16th, 2011our time is now….. I am continually reminded of the amazing gift to be alive, now. To live during a time of great opportunity, chaos, challenge, disturbance, the ever present cry of “darkness”, and the blessing of the light. I am reminded of the sun’s promise each morning, and the contentment of the plants [...]
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Inquiry and Insights: Pain (part 1)
Posted: Sunday, January 30th, 2011“We’re living in a time where we each need a tremendous amount of courage — a fierce kind of attention and intentionality. The doorway is always through your vulnerability, the experience where you are open to the world whether you want to be or not. “I’ve come to consider vulnerability as a form of imaginative [...]
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