Border Line Purge To Fitness

Teachings are everywhere- we only have got to be unfastened adequate to see them as such.

I recently led a Yoga and speculation retreat at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara. One of the many rich and beautiful minutes was when I was sitting with my pupil by the ocean. It was not a 'scheduled' session clip but in a single minute I looked out at the ocean and he turned to me with a quizical 'what are you thinking?' look on his human face and right there the teaching, the yoga, emerged. Sitting by the ocean's border gazing into eternity with the soft ocean zephyr brushing against my tegument and my sun-kissed weaponry absorbing the nutriment of this carrier of light, I watched the tide moving in and out unfailingly dancing to its ain rhythm. I observed how a single moving ridge was its ain physical thing and yet portion of the full ocean. It was impossible Iodine observed to experience any sort of separation when we see ourselves in the same way. We are the moving ridge and the ocean. The Self and Atman. Everything was contained in that 1 minute just like it is contained in this moment. We are re-creating ourselves each minute anew. Just as we cannot bathe in the same ocean H2O twice so we are not the same as we were last year, or last calendar month or yesterday.

The lesson here is that Yoga makes not just go on on the mat. The asanas (yoga postures) are a vehicle to apprehension more about who we are and what we are capable but it never halt there. The asana is the inquiry not the answer. It is the topographic point from which we start, not the end that we aim to.

My vision of Yoga these years is about aligning with my most reliable ego and supporting others in doing the same. And whether I larn it balancing in Adho Mukha Vrksasana (Handstand), chanting a mantra, sitting by the ocean's border observation the moving ridge relaxing into the ocean or sitting in traffic and giving the individual who aggressively cuts in presence of me a soundless approval instead of a curse... it is all yoga. It is not adequate in this twenty-four hours and age to make yoga- the inquiry is are we doing it well? Are we embodying Yoga? Are we living the teachings? Are we in the Flow?

Be the wave... continuously re-creating yourself in the Now. And bask your ocean-ness... infinite possibilities be in all dimensions and are only limited by your imagination.