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Make a Pledge for Your Health
When people find out what I do for a living, they often ask me to help them choose a certain style of yoga, recommend a DVD and/or teacher, or offer them a brief yoga practice that helps them with whatever they are suffering with. Over the years I’ve been enthusiastic to help and offer up suggestions, referrals, practices, etc. I’m sad to say that while some are appreciative, the great majority ask and then are unresponsive to the suggestions offered. If I had a dollar for every person who asked me for help and then failed to even try what I suggested, I’d be writing this from my very own private island. <SIGH > Change Is Hard I’ll admit that it’s frustrating
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Make a Pledge for Your Health
11 Minutes to Wow
This past weekend I was in NYC and had the opportunity to take a Kundalini Yoga class with Gurmukh . The class was in the evening following what had been a long day for me. I wanted some gentle yoga. Of course as anyone (including myself, as I’ve taken quite a few classes with her) who has taken a class with Gurmukh can attest to, challenge trumps gentle. No three minute kriyas in this class — instead the majority of the practice consisted of 11-minute kriyas.
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The Buddha: More Than a Statue Upon the Altar
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.” –Buddha At some point in my career as a student I read the book Siddhartha . Little did I know that years later I would attend yoga classes and meditation retreats and sit in front of altars on which the Buddha was prominently displayed. For a long time Buddha represented a life of consciousness, an ability to live in the present moment, bliss, nirvana, enlightenment. My knowledge about this celebrated spiritual teacher was little, yet I threw his likeness, his name, and all that I thought he represented around quite a bit. Then I started studying a meditation technique with Buddhist roots and I learned a bit more. Anicca (all things are impermanent) became somewhat of a mantra for me. My meditation practice turned anicca into something that I learned again and again in my body rather than something that I understood in my mind. Still, yoga, not Buddhism, was my practice of choice and so I neglected to learn more about the man behind the statue on the altar in various yoga studios in which I practiced and in meditation halls in which I sat. Realizing that I was experiencing the benefits of a meditation technique attributed to Buddha himself, I thought it would be helpful to dive a little deeper and learn about his life . There were many similarities in the concepts and teachings that I had already been exposed to thanks to being in the world of yoga and meditation for years
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The Buddha: More Than a Statue Upon the Altar