| New Summer Schedule! There are a few exciting changes starting Monday, June 18th! At the Yoga Sanctuary, we are always evolving and shifting. Thanks to the suggestions of our students we are constantly creating a better practice space. Our 2pm College Street afternoon classes will now commence at 1:30 until 3:00pm. This allows the parents in our classes enough time to pick their children up from school. WOW - what a good change! We are also excited to announce that we have Daniel Tzar-Lacerda teaching Zen Yoga on our College schedule. Zen Yoga is a combination of Zen meditation, Hatha yoga and Chi Kung. Check
out Daniel's classes on Monday from 1:30 to 3:00pm, Thursday
from 3:30 to 5:00pm and Sunday from 10:00 to 11:30am all at
our College location.
Arm
and Hand Balancing This module will focus on both self-practice and the art of refining communication on how to teach the more advanced and challenging arm and hand balances. Together we will learn to end our fear of balancing the weight of our bodies on our hands, while learning techniques for doing this safely. We will encourage our students to feel just as confident while standing on their hands as on their two feet. We will fly upside down to the sky!
Musings by Archana "The
path to salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as the
razor's Often, no mater how much I "practice", I find myself slipping. Slipping back into "old familiar patterns". Patterns of relating. Of being in relationship. And I know these patterns well. It's a familiar groove. They are comfortable samskaras in their dysfunctionality. Part of the process of liberation from their tentacles, which reach through from one generation to the next, is to recognize them. You have to be able to recognize them otherwise you remain in denial. Asleep. Denial being the first and most powerful defense mechanism. Denial wants to protect and shield us from awakening to whatever those original wounds were because it's just too painful otherwise. And so that is denial. The fragile ego stays protected ... slumbering in unconsciousness, comfortably numb. But we have to wake up and see what is not obvious. Or else we are screwed up for life. And possibly the next life and so on ... And
these painful issues - working against the liberation of our
soul - Everyone
goes over the same stepping stones at some point in their journey.
And karma is determined by the choices we make. And we make choices each and every moment. And we learn to change the WAY we make our choices. And we begin to recognize we are on a slippery slope and start to chose "consciously" and with awareness. And the power of the unresolved wounds, the unconscious samskaric forces, which are dysfunctional and unenlightened and do not serve, begin to reveal themselves. Part of the awakening is knowing you are asleep. And learning to watch life unfold as it were a dream,is nothing more than you projecting your unresolved issues onto whatever you come into contact with. It's like asana yoga practice. Energy moves in equal yet opposite directions. It is relatively chaotic and unstable at first, until that polarity comes into CONSCIOUS alignment and the resultant tensile strength inherent in all oppositions, is used to deepen awareness and to grow. Like Arjuna is in the Bhagavad Gita ... in the middle of opposition ... and seeking enlightenment. And so it is. |
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