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Jai Bhagwan! Ah, I very cleverly forgot to mention a few ah ha moments from last night. The first is that without realizing it, I can now step my foot forward from ashva-sanchalasana without having to tent my fingers and I can almost grip my own fingers in gomukasana. My shoulders and hence [...] Jai Bhagwan! Last night was my first opportunity to teach since returning from Florida. When I finally returned home, Shanna asked me how class went—she went to a Relief Society Enrichment meeting last night instead of class, which made me very happy—I told her that it was incredible and so it was. I [...] Jai Bhagwan! I like food; in fact, you could say that I can’t live without it. Some of my favorite foods include Rindsrouladen (German beef rolls), medium rare steaks, hamburgers, chocolate, sugary things, cherry pies, cookies, Snickers, sugary things, cake, donuts, sugary things—did I say that already? As one might expect, all [...] Jai Bhagwan! Yesterday was our graduation ceremony. It is somewhat of a misnomer as we are not yet graduated but it was the end of the current training session. The ceremony was steeped in Indian tradition with chanting, offering respect to and receiving a blessing from Gurudev, everyone dressed in white or celebration [...] Jai Bhagwan! What a marvelous day! Morning sadhana was led by Kamini, Gurudev’s daughter, and the focus was on maintaining meditative awareness during the entire practice. I was immensely grateful to find that I could not almost slip in and out of meditative consciousness at will. The reason I was grateful for [...] Jai Bhagwan! Yoga is union. We often consider this to mean just the unification of body, mind and spirit; all three working in unison and harmony. This is union but it is precisely not Yoga. Consider the United States of America. There are 50 individual states and these individual states come together [...] Jai Bhagwan My intention was to write a long expose today; however, I’ve been taking pictures and studying—I’m a bit behind on the reading, there’s a lot of reading—and chatting with my wife some on a very very very slow connection. That being the case, we’ll all have to be content with [...] Jai Bhagwan! The stiffness is setting in nicely now, two hours of practice plus extended holding of poses during classes will do that—everyone is experiencing stiffness today. I learned today that we will each be receiving full audio recordings of all the sessions! To say I’m excited about this would be a [...] Time is unimaginably short today; so, I’ll just post a couple of quick thoughts. One solace though, I’ll make a complete write up of my experience once I’m done here. Here’s something that Gurudev gave us to chew on during our morning session with him: If I ask you to cover all [...] |
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