Yoga and Compassion

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Comment by Sandra Reis on August 4, 2009 at 4:15pm

Your body houses divine light. Your body is the temple of God. The light exists in everything, in all places, and at all times. The more you become conscious of the divine light in your body, the greater you feel about yourself and the greater you feel about the world you live in.

-from Courage and Contentment
by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

art by Eva Uviedo

Comment by Sandra Reis on July 31, 2009 at 8:11pm

Question: Why do Yoga?
Answer: Because Yoga accepts... Yoga gives!!

Comment by Sandra Reis on July 30, 2009 at 6:01pm

Surf into YOGA
with Rochelle Ballard

"Enjoy your life, get in touch with your body through yoga, the ocean, the mountains, and your surroundings, experience and be apart of your community, travel the world, over come your fears, find your inner gifts, be creative, and through it all find the balance with it to stay youthful and healthy. Being an inspiration with body and earth consciousness, wherever you are in the world or in your life."



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Comment by maryse on July 28, 2009 at 3:11am

Comment by David Sparenberg on July 23, 2009 at 7:30pm

GATHERING OF SHARDS

Compassion is the root and common thread. Compassion abides in the soul, as soul’s most natural offspring. It works through the heart and enters the world without doctrine or dogma. Compassion suffers for otherness, from that which one did not do. And compassion rejoices with the joy of that which is shared by all.

The differences of religions arise when compassion is broken apart, like a mirror dashed in a fit of anger. But the way of compassion is wholeness. And the cause of compassion is unity.

We need not abandon the differences, for they smell of human journeys and the gardens of many imaginations. But we must always remember compassion and the invitation to the banquet of reunion. For the “religious” purpose of compassion is to gather the shards of darkened glass and render them harmless.

Some might call this a miracle, other enlightenment. I am a humble person and I call it only Eden, the place of the Tree of Life.

David Sparenberg
22 July 2009

Comment by Sandra Reis on July 20, 2009 at 8:55pm

Namaste my dear friends

Irina, it´s always so nice see you here.
You must know how I love yoga and this group!

That´s ok to be a bit lazy (humm, may I confess I´m sometimes quite lazy).
But I don´t think you are too lazy...practice yoga in the morning and in the afternoon...wow, you are so disciplinate for me :~))

big hug'asana'

Om Shanti

Comment by Sandra Reis on July 16, 2009 at 3:50pm

Yoga and Pranayama Explanation from Himalayan Yoga Swami

Comment by David Sparenberg on July 14, 2009 at 7:50am

NATIVE SENSES

The expression
of the beautiful genius
opens like a wordless
rose
and clothes us
in the fumes
of paradise.
Somehow
when we are
listening to the wings
of crows and the
tender melodies
of elfin butterflies
we feel embraced
by the breath
of angels.
Beating
so softly, so
delicate-sweet that
velvet on a virgin’s
skin
might touch us
with an offering.
Though
we are there, out
in that other place
the familiar cup
of a summer’s rose
rises
from this ground
to kiss us
with the miracle
of its pouring passions.
And
we are downed
supine
into the common
haunting symbolum
of earth’s
dense mystery.
Though
not a single
word has swollen
to the lips
like a cherry
freshly swollen,
but the heavy
buzzing
of a working bee
lost
in the ecstasies
of pollen.
And
we are spellbound
and complete.
Like fruit.
Like garden.

David Sparenberg

Comment by Sandra Reis on July 13, 2009 at 5:02pm

A wonderful choreography representing Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion

Comment by Sandra Reis on July 8, 2009 at 5:04pm

Nada Yoga - The Yoga of Sound

"Salutations to the Nadam, which is the inner guide and the inner life, the dispenser of happiness to all! It is the inner guru, appearing as Nada, bindu and kala. One who is devoted to the inner guru, the Nada, the inner music, obtains the highest bliss.

Hatha Yoga Pradipika IV, 1



"The deer is entrapped by sweet sound.
The cobra is enchanted by sweet music.
Raga Punnagavarrali charms the cobra.
Nada entraps the mind.
The mind gets Laya in sweet nada.
Therefore you can easily control the mind
Through the practice of Nada Yoga"

Swami Sivananda

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