mantra saves my soul..

 

jaya shiva shankara bom bom hare hare
jaya shiva shankara bom bom hare hare
hare hare hare hare bom bom hare hare
hare hare hare hare bom bom hare hare

“Victory to the Auspcious One, the Destroyer of Doubt
Hail to the Remover of Evil, the Great God”

 

 

om bhur bhuvah svah
tat savitur varenyam 
bhargo devasya dhimahi
dhiyo yo naha pra-chodayat

“We meditate on the glory of that
Being who has produced this universe;
may He enlighten our minds.” 
Swami Vivekananda

playing around..

a few little diddys to peruse on your computer …

 

- an old fashioned April Fools joke,  care of lululemon “Farm to Studio: Introducing lululeather” 

- Flex is Kings: this is an excerpt from a documentary about an urban dance movement in Brooklyn called Flexing. KILLER!!!

- do yoga all the time, everywhere, with all the best!   My Yoga Online

 

creating the mood of love..

The mood of love or bhava is essential to any yoga practice. To have this element taken away would leave us flat and without the inspiration necessary to continue. Any yoga practice has to be a labour of love. It has to turn your heart on or it’s just not worth doing.

(David Life and Sharon Gannon)

overcoming obstacles..

 

[A] stumbling block can arise when, just as we’ve been thinking we have made some progress, we suddenly notice how much there still is for us to do. We can grow very disappointed…we suddenly have no interest in trying again…we start saying: ‘No more for me. I thought that was it, but now I feel like a fool, even more stupid than before. I just don’t want to go on.’ We are incapable of taking another step.

When you become aware of the illusion you have been harbouring and look reality squarely in the face, it is unfortunately all too easy to then view yourself as smaller and less important then you really are. You may have reached a point you have never reached before, but you lack the power to stay there and fall back, losing what you have gained.

[On the yoga path] we should should know that the feeling of being a little better today than yesterday exists just as much as the hope that we will be a little better in the future. These feelings will come and go until we reach the point where there is no better and no worse.

 

(Desikachar)

a good hit for your ears..

Retrograde – James Blake

 

 

Ego – Burial and Four Tet Featuring Thom Yorke

 

 

what am I doing?

 

 

 

“.. yoga is ‘to attain what was previously unattainable’. The starting point for this thought is that there is something that we are today unable to do; when we find the means for bringing that desire into action, that step is yoga. In fact, every change is yoga.”

 

“Yoga attempts to create a state in which we are always present – really present – in every action, in every moment.”

 

“..we reach many points where we have never been before. Each of these movements and changes is yoga.”

 

“Another classic definition of yoga is ‘to be one with the divine.’ It does not matter what name we use for the divine – God, Allah, Isvara, or whatever – anything that brings us closer to understanding that there is a power higher and greater than ourselves is yoga. When we feel in harmony with that higher power, that too is yoga.”

 

“We begin where we are and how we are, and whatever happens, happens.” 

 

 

 

 

excerpts from The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice 

by TKV Desikachar

 

when god lets my body be..

when god lets my body be

from each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that dangles therefrom

the purpled world will dance upon
between my lips which did sing

a rose shall beget the spring
that maidens whom passion wastes

will lay between their little breasts
my strong fingers beneath the snow

into strenuous birds shall go
my love walking in the grass

their wings will touch with her face
and all the while shall my heart be
with the bulge and nuzzle of the sea

 

e.e. cummings