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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. (B.K.S Iyengar) Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked. (The yoga sutras of Patanjali) When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. (Hatha Yoga Pradipika) Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked (Desikashar) Do your practice and all is coming (Sri K Patthabi Jois) Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious. (David Williams, Ashtanga teacher) This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go. (Katha Upanishad) Join Our Facebook Community. Visit Guiding Yoga's Light, get the latest updates, see our photos, and join our commuity. Yoga Class For Beginners Video for Shoulder Work FREE Yoga Videos - Class 5 - Shoulders [Full Length Premium Version] from Les Leventhal on Vimeo. Moon Salutation Bhasktrika--Bellows Breath Bhastrika, or bellows breath, is a vigorous, dynamic, and vitalizing pranayama that clears obstructions in the respiratory system, strengthens the nervous system, increases physical vitality, and enhances clarity of mind. Cause and Effect "You are responsible for your destiny. You need to know that you are carrying cause and effect on your shoulders all the time. No matter how powerful a king may be, he is under this law. Each word you speak and each word you think will fall back to you." Uezusan The Five Simple Rules of Happiness. 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less. Following Rumi "You wander from room to room in search of the string of pearls that is already around your neck." Be A Humble Teacher “If you want to enlighten others, get enlightened yourself. What you read in books is not enough. As a Yoga teacher, you should show your students the way because you know it well. Don’t pose as an all-knowing person. That’s the problem: Are you going to teach or preach? Preaching is not important. Practicing is what’s important. In fact, nobody is a teacher; we are all learners. Sometimes, we learn from the students themselves. So be humble and gently impart what you know. Say: ‘This is all I know; this what I’m hoping for. You try. You may even get it before me.’ That kind of humility is important. Sri Swami Satchidananda Hatha Yoga Pradipika 1.6 “Yoga is not obtained by reading scriptures, nor by wearing the dress of a yogi, nor by talking about it. Practice alone is the course of success.” Sign Up For the GYL Newsletter If you'd like to receive our newsletter, please email us at info@guidingyogaslight.com ARE YOU A TEACHER? Let us know what kind of lessons you love to teach. ARE YOU A STUDENT? Let us know what kind of classes you typically attend. SHARE YOUR LIGHT. Do you have a favorite quote, affirmation or prayer? Send it to us and we'll share it with others. Why Your Joints Crack The most common type of joint in the human body is the diarthrodial joint--knuckles and shoulders are examples--in which two bones come together in a capsule. Inside that joint capsule is a lubricant called synovial fluid, which contains dissolved gases. When you stretch the joint, you're actually compressing it and the fluid within, forcing those nitrogen-rich gases to escape the synovial solution. The release of "air" within the joint capsule is what you hear as a "pop." Once the gas is released, the joint is a bit more flexible (enabling you to go a little further in a yoga pose, for example). Potential "Man is born only as a potential. Growing old is not growing up, growing physically is not growing spiritually. And unless you grow spiritually you are wasting a precious opportunity. Don't waste a single moment in anything else. Do the necessary things, the essential things, but pour more and more energy into watchfulness, awareness." Osho Discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.--Swami Vivekananda Get rid of anything that weighs you down, keeps you from moving forward, and stifles your spiritual growth. What Is Your Deepest Desire? You are what your deepest desire is. As your desire is, so is your intention. As your intention is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny." ~Upanishads Intention is the starting point of every spiritual path. It is the force that fulfills all of our needs, whether for money, relationships, spiritual awakening, or love. Intention generates all the activities in the universe. Everything that we can see--even things we cannot--are an expression of intention's infinite organizing power. Once we plant the seed of an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, our soul's journey unfolds automatically as a bulb becomes a tulip. Sutra Practice for Your Intentions San Kalpa means " My intentions have infinite organizing power." When you enter a meditative state and repeat this sutra, you strengthen the power of your intentions. Spend a few minutes in meditation allowing your mind to settle. Now imagine that the entire universe is a vast ocean of consciousness and that your intentions emerge from your heart and ripple out into this ocean, where they are fulfilled with effortless ease. Then say silently to yourself, "San Kalpa". For every intention, whether for healing, a new relationship, wealth, or opportunity, envision the desired outcome in your mind. Feel the sound vibration and notice the energy flowing through your body. Keep It Simple Our life is frittered away by detail, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify! I say let your affairs be two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. Henry David Thoreau Osho On Meditation Meditation has a few essential things in it, whatever the method, but those few essentials are necessary in every method. The first is a relaxed state: no fight with the mind, no control over the mind, no concentration. Second, just watch with a relaxed awareness whatever is going on, without any interference - just watching the mind, silently, without any judgement, evaluation. These are the three things: relaxation, watching, no judgement. Osho |
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