These are a collection of notes from the Goswami's Course at Krotona, "Nurturing the Soul. We gather from 10 to 12:30 from Tuesday through Friday. Amit speaks first, then Uma.
Amit
"What are the questions and problems of Mind and How do we solve them?"
"When things happen, they happen very quickly"
"Consciousness contains 4 components of possibilities With Quantum Collapse, the possibilities manifest as the material body, the vital body, the mind and the supra mental intellect."
"How can we be so careless about our own experience that we 'give in' to the materialist belief."
"Meaning is something that cannot be computed...and there is mathematical proof."
"No digital representation of feeling."
[self note: what about a beautiful piece of music or art that creates feeling? is this measured differently?]
Today's Problems:
"We need to value our Archetypes."
"Quantum helps by eliminating argument of dualism."
Chinese Medicine Example:
Two types of complementary chi: yin and yang
the shadow and the light
complimentary is different than dualistic
complimentary is 2 different aspects of the same thing. dualistic is two different things.
Nelda:
Who is the we that makes the choice?
"We" arises simultaneously with the object we perceive from the Tangled Hierarchy of Quantum Measurement.
"We have identified with the brain"...and "I am separate from you."
yang is movement
yin is stability
[note: this was a new place for me. i had never thought of yin as stable before in comparison to yang as movement. in thinking about the bones vs the blood, this was a very useful understanding to me]
David Boehm the physicist:
he was looking for/giving an example of the uncertainty principle and discovered an example in thought.
the maximum difficult of the "straitjacket of the materialist" is whether or not the world is deterministic.
Can we determine the world based on measurements?
They wish yes cuz control and predictability are so nice.
"But complete prediction becomes so boring."
DB "We can never measure momentum and location with complete accuracy."
"Classical physics is deterministic...no creativity in the world."
"In Quantum world there is uncertainty"
DB: "We can never measure the content and direction of thought. "
In free association, you have no memory of content just the direction. In concentration meditation techniques, you stick to the content and allow for no direction.
"Intuition is the quality that is the most rarefied." So have to be careful about talking about it. Cannot do it on command, like thinking or feeling.
Maria:
Can you see content and direction from a higher perspective of consciousness? As consciousness expands, can you see these things simultaneously?
Amit: When You become Whole with Consciousness then there is no separation. Everything is known.
"everything known in possibility."
So "evolution" is only a possibility?
eternity is not infinity.
in eternity, nothing happens, permanent, the Godhead
infinity is a long time from now, extent of time
Aurobindo was the first mystic to focus on evolution.
The Soul is the highest ideal.
[eric: is there a natural selection of possibilities?]
"What is this reality? At once nothing happens and something changes." Krishnamurti
Both Stationary and in Movement.
"it moves, it moves not"
Amit says that it was a mistake of the mystics to not recognize evolution earlier.
"Ideas of Evolution" Come slow to us.
"Transformation is fundamental."
"Evolution is a species level."
we are moving towards "godliness on earth."
Why is it so hard to make progress?
Our negative emotional Brain Circuits
Amit showed a slide detailing the "blueprint" of how we get mental and physical representations from collapse.
"How Biological Functions Come Down From Heaven"
"Why do Chakras Work?"
What are chakras? and Why do we feel feelings here specially?
Chakras are the places Quantum Collapse the blueprint.
It is not the physical organ that creates the feeling.
The feeling is a feeling of vital movement.
A change in the vital energy.
Heart and Thymus Gland
Thymus Gland governs the immune system and the Heart is the most important to us relative to the spiritual.
Thymus: distinguishes me from not me.
"This cell is not me, so eliminate it"
"When we cannot do that, we get cancer."
"Romantic Love is a possessive idea...You are mine...This is part of the drive of physical union and sexual desire. The desire to merge comes from the heart chakra and feels like love....we feel 'expanded consciousness' in heart chakra..."
"The mind as meaning giver interprets the feeling."
Amit nodded to the 'emotional body' that was recognized early on by the T.S. as the place where the mind givens meaning to vital feelings.
When the person we are in love with steps out, we feel jealousy because of the possessiveness.
The idea of marriage/monogamy to prevent sex without love.
Nelda asked the question of how we achieve a balance?
How do we maintain a strong and healthy thymus gland while including other people in our hearts?
She also made the point of many mystics dying of cancer. Was it a loss of the distinction of me?
"Mother is the only one who has conquered the barrier of locality."
Maria pointed out that people with heart disease suffer from hostility, cynicism and the inability to share emotions. And that they do really well with group sharing, realizing and breathing techniques.
Lower Chakras
Amit gets a little old skool when talking about the lower chakras.
"These lower chakras are brain centers of negative emotions."
"We are in a rational age...an age of the rational mind."
"If we are producing separateness, it is not good for us."
"Evolution is trying to take us towards unity."
"Rational mind allows us to justify everything."
"Feeling and intuition and not rational"
"We are making better and better representations of the subtle."
"Mind is a barrier to giving meaning to feelings and intuition."
"How do we overcome this?"
"How can meaning and feelings be included?:
"We don;t have to do what we are doing."
"During Regan's presidency, Women became corrupted"
Women's values were negated, women were 'empowered' and they became 'rational'
"We need the women to lead us out of this."
"Anima integration"
"There I have made my pitch."
UMA
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA
In any teaching of yoga m there are 3 processes:
1. Shravana
Listen to the teachings with entire being. Absorb it. Be open minded. Non-judgemental. Learning depends on both teacher and student being in a harmonious field.
2. Manana
Reflect on it. Use the mind to reflect.
3. Nidhidhyana
Only then will the fruits of the learning be born.
She said the BHAVAN mantra
"We all make sacrifices to be here"
"We have to collectively create the energy to allow the teachings to flow."
"Shiva is the cosmic force of transformation...the one who is fearless, all auspicious, sacred and who will help us dissolve the negative emotions."
NA - Earth
Ma - Water
Shi - Fire
VA - Air
YA - Ether
"The Lord fo the 5 Cosmic elements"
"Mudras help harmonize the elements"
"Human effort has to be accompanied by divine grace.
Transform awareness to reconnect.
Pranas Myth
Told Narada Story of claiming to be the greatest devotee of Maha Vishnu and Maha Vishnu showing him the farmer. Narada asked to carry the pail of oil around the world without spilling one drop during which he never thought of Mahu Vishnu once while the hard working farmer is able to pray 6x a day.
"We become proud of our spiritual sadahana.. Our ego does this."
"The best sadhana is to constantly be aware of the divine undercurrent that is animating all your activities."
Can we become aware of this animating power?
Be aware of the unmanifest in the manifest.
Mandyuka Upanishad
A: pain of separating in the waking state.
Viswa (individual ego) is connected to Urat (virat?)
we are part of the whole nature
told the RK whip mark story.
Bhakti yoga is intimacy with God. Talk to God all the time.
RK to Vivekanadna: make every effort directed to the divine.
Nature can heal you.
Pay attention to the the peaceful ease in which the cows graze the grass.
Lord Laughs 2 times
- when the doctor says he has healed you and when people are fighting over property.
"never feel alone"
"everything in nature is a live"
"the divine is in everything"
in waking state, there is an observer, observed and observation
U
taijasa, the individual ego connects to hiranya sardha, the cosmic womb
dreaming state
psychological state
what is dreaming?
Dreamer
object of dream
process of dream
What is difference between dreaming and waking state?
There is no external stimuli in dreaming.
Memories are the stimulus of dreams, regurgitation.
Dream is better than waking.
More refinement.
We have access to memories of the collective in dreams.
We are connected to universal connected mind.
How does this help us psychologically?
"dump your problems into universal mind."
if most of time in tune with nature, not so much suffering.
if connected to collective mind, not so much suffering.
M
pragnya
deep sleep
ego is quiet
our suffering is the lease
"even physical pain disappears in deep sleep"
"everybody is equalized in deep sleep"
wake up and the same problems appear.
Ishwara
grace works
"never underestimate the power of prayer and grace"
story of Uma heading to temple of Shiva in Rishikesh as a teenager.
if you surrender to God, it is easiest.
"Who Am I" traces the ego to its end.
"Root of I"
Indian Wedding and Guest Story.
Do not get involved in the content of the mind, observe the source of thought.
Be vigilant.
Ego merges back to the source.
Challenge it.
Trace it.
"I am not this"
"I am awareness, intelligence and bliss"
Food prepared with LOVE touches your heart.
yoga = union
viyoga = disconnection
upayoga = practice of yoga in daily life
"to discover that blissful aspect and once we discover it, we have to transfer it."
"if u r not juicy, nothing flows"
"as long as suffering exists in us, it exists outside us."
"macrocosm is reflection of microcosm"
Then she "came to today's topic, Raga Yoga"
She began to go through the Yamas and I had to go.
Ahimsa, not just non-cruelty, but active kindness
Satya, there is an inner truth in each of us. what is the truth about yourself. contact it. manifest it.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Uma and Amit Goswami at Krotona April 22
April 22, 2009
The main theme today between Amit and Uma was the idea of "living lightly". Allow ourselves to be less dense of collapsed memories and ways of doing things and operate in the waves of possibility, allowing for insight. Relaxed Awareness.
AMIT
We arrived 30 minutes late cuz of Class.
As long as the world is "scientific", nobody is going to "let there be light."
the law of science does not believe in miracles.
miracles are "local-exceptions."
Amit presented why Quantum is micro, and not macro.
The unchanging nature of the physical world, gives us a common ground of experience
"When we are not looking, there are waves of possibilities."
[self note: how dies this relate to awareness?]
How do we learn to make a better representation of the subtle?
How as children do we learn to make a better picture?
We learn by making representation first.
Need better representation to make better representations.
[self note: don't we just learn to look more closely]
Do not need to rediscover the wheel over and over.
"to make representations of the subtle" we collapse the subtle?
"I an collapse the same thought over and over again OR I can rethink it"
continuous thought and discontinuous thought are both allowed.
continuous thought is easier, memorized. easier to recall the memory than respond to the new circumstance.
dis continually dominates as we become more refined. so we feel more spontaneous and fresh and new in the supra mental.
5 Archetypes
Love Beauty Justice Truth and Good
basic concept of fundamental thought that it matches our soul.
discontinuity dominates
example mental representation of Love
if we learn about love from our mother, it will be natural for us to repeat that mental memory of love. "imagine the disaster."
"Our difficulty comes cuz we do not look."
recognize that this is not working
"suffering/pain" is the clue
our sense of separation from unity.
"How do we take the Quantum Leap?"
Say NO to the conditioning that is creating the suffering and separateness.
Proof of change is that it does take place.
The belief in electricity example.
I asked question about looking as necessary to see the conditioning and how that relates to "collapsing the possibilities".
Amit pointed towards the idea in yoga of "relaxed awareness."
"focus with ease"
Relax and allow for the insight.
Maria asked: What is calling forth the insight? What is this quality of dhyana? It IS a collapse because there is an insight, but what is happening there?
"It is beyond all this."
Must be a BURNING QUESTION
pursuing it even when relaxing.
Collapse of a WAVEFORM.
"We" is the conscious observer
Omar Quam Love Poems, "The Longing for God is a Romantic Love."
You have to have the answer.
You grow a longing for the answer.
Either Suffering is so great that you have to get out.
Or you can simply seek Joy. You become so intrigued by the Joy, that you want more, you want to find the source itself.
The Bride and the Mother in Law Slide.
"I am creating the world that I am."
Psychophysical Parallelism
people still talk of the "mind/body" problem"
how can both exist without needing a dual argument
"both mind and mater are possibilities of consciousness, there not dual."
There is a Discontinuous Local Collapse in the 5 bodies from both the Consciousness and Supra- mental Intellect and the Mental, Vital and Physical Properties.
"We choose our possibilities from these places."
Amit presented that he solved this problem 8 years ago in his books:
"Visionary Window" and "Physics of the Soul"
"Quantum" is a scary word to philosophers.
UMA
AUM
Om
Purnamadah Purnamidam
Purnat Purnamudachyate
Purnasya Purnamadaya
Purnameva Vashishyate
Om shanti, shanti, shanti
Essentially, meaning:
Om.
That is the whole, this is the whole;
from the whole, the whole becomes manifest;
taking away the whole from the whole,
the whole remains.
Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!
Ghandi said, "if the entire knowledge of the Upanishads were destroyed and this one stanza were to remain, we would still have the entire wisdom of the Upanishads." (or something like that)
the whole gives birth to the whole and is continuous to the whole.
there are no authors of the Upanishads.
"Rishis did not dare put their name on it."
Shruti = wisdom that was revealed to them
Uma mentioned that we owe the study of Vedenta to Shankaracharya.
That up until he recorded it it was an oral history for 2000 years.
She told the story of being sad that she was not born 50 years earlier.
"never doubt the existence of living masters."
"it is thrilling to be contemplating these ancient teachings"
"If we can transform our perception, no other yoga is required."
"in ever manifest creation is the abode of God"
Who's fault is it that we cannot discover it?
The qualities of Divine are Awaress, Intelligence, Blissfullness
"There is Something wrong in your perception."
Avidya
Agnyana
Maya
How do we correct this?
Our suffering comes from ego."ego is the mental construct/creation of the mind"
BG defintion of the Ego:
chit jada granthi
chit: consciousness (chitta/mind comes from chit)
jada: body
granthi: knot
ego makes the unlimited consciousness feel as if it is tied to the body
"when thoughts become silent, consciousness shines through."
"mind is nothing but a flow of thoughts"
in an enlightened man: mind hardly gives rise to thought
ignorance: continuous flow of thoughts, helplessly thinking
meditation: create space between thoughts
not emptiness: FULLNESS
"as long as we do no see divine in another person, we will interact superficially"
our psychological suffering comes from comparison and competition
we suffer when we feel superior or inferior
[story of the boy who would not talk]
"so easy to destroy, so hard to heal."
"so easy to rupture some body's dignity."
"so difficult to return it back."
[story of the Sanskrit pHd woman]
"Find out what is good in yourself"
our society is expert in showing the negative.
parents criticize children 80% of the time
"Let aspects of your soul that you want to be expressed to be nurtured."
"What are the positive attribute that each one of us has?"
"Yoga Therapy"
"Weaknesses will be there in your personality, ignore them. dwell on the positive aspects." RK
Our positive attributes are hard to know.
Easier to Narrate the weaknesses.
Very few people know their good qualities
Swadharma
swa - self
dharma - properties/Laws of Being
MASLOW
people with positive mental health
All happy and successful people have 16 qualities in common.
Healing
"offer a loving observation"
Betsy asked the question of how as a parent to approach the 20%
everything can be clothed in dignity. so many children have shattered diginity. hurting the dignity is an act of violence.
What makes us Violent?
negative emotions are subtle shades of violence. none of us want to be violnet.
Root out the seed of violence.
Root out seed of violence in competitive instinct.
"Competitive instincts is what makes us undignifed human beings."
"Human Beings have to OVERCOME competitive instincts. Part of the Animal Kingdom.
Discussion of the Brain, and the 3 parts.
We need to learn to cooperate.
As long as feel separate, will compete.
How to criticize without being negative?
Do it in dignified language.
The story of Sage Meditating with the Snake.
"I told you not to bite, but I did not tell you not to hiss."
"the bite comes from our own emotions."
"how do we prevent biting"
"don't say anything in anger mood. cool down and then express it."
emotions have births, peaks and deaths.
"don't allow yourself to be exploited."
"we get karma as exploited and exploiter."
the War in Mahabarata
Krishna does not allow for exploitation.
Sometimes we have to fight against injustice.
Purification and Refinement
Chitta Shuddhi
Mind Lightness
"The more light we are, the more divine consciousness can come through."
"Learn to live lightly in your body and mind as a quest."
"We suffer when we assume too much responsibility."
the traveling life is more of a quest.
"don't stick to too many memories, let them go"
"the lighter we are, the more we can be happy."
"the masters liver very lightly."
4 Main Branches of Yoga
- Jnana
discover the divine in others. give up habit of criticism, judgement
cultivate habit iof loving observation
be in tune with your own divinity and tune to their divinity, healing happened
"lecture creates problems, better to sit in holy silence"
"the more centered we are, the more healing can come through us."
"doing the greatest service in perception."
"when we observe, can we bring in the aspect of Love."
Bliss Body has 5 properties
Priya: that which is lovable
"if we want to discover happiness in wold, it is possible."
"don't covet another's property."
Viveka: emotional maturity
Who are you?
what kind of life do you want?
internally honest
be ruthless in honesty
[story of the housekeeper]
[salt and water story]
Raga Yoga
to train our concentration
Bhakti
to purify our emotions
Karma
to purify our actions
Homework: Read these 3 upanishads
Pantajali's Yoga Sutras
using the Mind to turn the mind
Weak Concentration is one of the causes of suffering.
8 Limbs
samadhi
sama: same
dhi: intelligence of the heart
The main theme today between Amit and Uma was the idea of "living lightly". Allow ourselves to be less dense of collapsed memories and ways of doing things and operate in the waves of possibility, allowing for insight. Relaxed Awareness.
AMIT
We arrived 30 minutes late cuz of Class.
As long as the world is "scientific", nobody is going to "let there be light."
the law of science does not believe in miracles.
miracles are "local-exceptions."
Amit presented why Quantum is micro, and not macro.
The unchanging nature of the physical world, gives us a common ground of experience
"When we are not looking, there are waves of possibilities."
[self note: how dies this relate to awareness?]
How do we learn to make a better representation of the subtle?
How as children do we learn to make a better picture?
We learn by making representation first.
Need better representation to make better representations.
[self note: don't we just learn to look more closely]
Do not need to rediscover the wheel over and over.
"to make representations of the subtle" we collapse the subtle?
"I an collapse the same thought over and over again OR I can rethink it"
continuous thought and discontinuous thought are both allowed.
continuous thought is easier, memorized. easier to recall the memory than respond to the new circumstance.
dis continually dominates as we become more refined. so we feel more spontaneous and fresh and new in the supra mental.
5 Archetypes
Love Beauty Justice Truth and Good
basic concept of fundamental thought that it matches our soul.
discontinuity dominates
example mental representation of Love
if we learn about love from our mother, it will be natural for us to repeat that mental memory of love. "imagine the disaster."
"Our difficulty comes cuz we do not look."
recognize that this is not working
"suffering/pain" is the clue
our sense of separation from unity.
"How do we take the Quantum Leap?"
Say NO to the conditioning that is creating the suffering and separateness.
Proof of change is that it does take place.
The belief in electricity example.
I asked question about looking as necessary to see the conditioning and how that relates to "collapsing the possibilities".
Amit pointed towards the idea in yoga of "relaxed awareness."
"focus with ease"
Relax and allow for the insight.
Maria asked: What is calling forth the insight? What is this quality of dhyana? It IS a collapse because there is an insight, but what is happening there?
"It is beyond all this."
Must be a BURNING QUESTION
pursuing it even when relaxing.
Collapse of a WAVEFORM.
"We" is the conscious observer
Omar Quam Love Poems, "The Longing for God is a Romantic Love."
You have to have the answer.
You grow a longing for the answer.
Either Suffering is so great that you have to get out.
Or you can simply seek Joy. You become so intrigued by the Joy, that you want more, you want to find the source itself.
The Bride and the Mother in Law Slide.
"I am creating the world that I am."
Psychophysical Parallelism
people still talk of the "mind/body" problem"
how can both exist without needing a dual argument
"both mind and mater are possibilities of consciousness, there not dual."
There is a Discontinuous Local Collapse in the 5 bodies from both the Consciousness and Supra- mental Intellect and the Mental, Vital and Physical Properties.
"We choose our possibilities from these places."
Amit presented that he solved this problem 8 years ago in his books:
"Visionary Window" and "Physics of the Soul"
"Quantum" is a scary word to philosophers.
UMA
AUM
Om
Purnamadah Purnamidam
Purnat Purnamudachyate
Purnasya Purnamadaya
Purnameva Vashishyate
Om shanti, shanti, shanti
Essentially, meaning:
Om.
That is the whole, this is the whole;
from the whole, the whole becomes manifest;
taking away the whole from the whole,
the whole remains.
Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!
Ghandi said, "if the entire knowledge of the Upanishads were destroyed and this one stanza were to remain, we would still have the entire wisdom of the Upanishads." (or something like that)
the whole gives birth to the whole and is continuous to the whole.
there are no authors of the Upanishads.
"Rishis did not dare put their name on it."
Shruti = wisdom that was revealed to them
Uma mentioned that we owe the study of Vedenta to Shankaracharya.
That up until he recorded it it was an oral history for 2000 years.
She told the story of being sad that she was not born 50 years earlier.
"never doubt the existence of living masters."
"it is thrilling to be contemplating these ancient teachings"
"If we can transform our perception, no other yoga is required."
"in ever manifest creation is the abode of God"
Who's fault is it that we cannot discover it?
The qualities of Divine are Awaress, Intelligence, Blissfullness
"There is Something wrong in your perception."
Avidya
Agnyana
Maya
How do we correct this?
Our suffering comes from ego."ego is the mental construct/creation of the mind"
BG defintion of the Ego:
chit jada granthi
chit: consciousness (chitta/mind comes from chit)
jada: body
granthi: knot
ego makes the unlimited consciousness feel as if it is tied to the body
"when thoughts become silent, consciousness shines through."
"mind is nothing but a flow of thoughts"
in an enlightened man: mind hardly gives rise to thought
ignorance: continuous flow of thoughts, helplessly thinking
meditation: create space between thoughts
not emptiness: FULLNESS
"as long as we do no see divine in another person, we will interact superficially"
our psychological suffering comes from comparison and competition
we suffer when we feel superior or inferior
[story of the boy who would not talk]
"so easy to destroy, so hard to heal."
"so easy to rupture some body's dignity."
"so difficult to return it back."
[story of the Sanskrit pHd woman]
"Find out what is good in yourself"
our society is expert in showing the negative.
parents criticize children 80% of the time
"Let aspects of your soul that you want to be expressed to be nurtured."
"What are the positive attribute that each one of us has?"
"Yoga Therapy"
"Weaknesses will be there in your personality, ignore them. dwell on the positive aspects." RK
Our positive attributes are hard to know.
Easier to Narrate the weaknesses.
Very few people know their good qualities
Swadharma
swa - self
dharma - properties/Laws of Being
MASLOW
people with positive mental health
All happy and successful people have 16 qualities in common.
Healing
"offer a loving observation"
Betsy asked the question of how as a parent to approach the 20%
everything can be clothed in dignity. so many children have shattered diginity. hurting the dignity is an act of violence.
What makes us Violent?
negative emotions are subtle shades of violence. none of us want to be violnet.
Root out the seed of violence.
Root out seed of violence in competitive instinct.
"Competitive instincts is what makes us undignifed human beings."
"Human Beings have to OVERCOME competitive instincts. Part of the Animal Kingdom.
Discussion of the Brain, and the 3 parts.
We need to learn to cooperate.
As long as feel separate, will compete.
How to criticize without being negative?
Do it in dignified language.
The story of Sage Meditating with the Snake.
"I told you not to bite, but I did not tell you not to hiss."
"the bite comes from our own emotions."
"how do we prevent biting"
"don't say anything in anger mood. cool down and then express it."
emotions have births, peaks and deaths.
"don't allow yourself to be exploited."
"we get karma as exploited and exploiter."
the War in Mahabarata
Krishna does not allow for exploitation.
Sometimes we have to fight against injustice.
Purification and Refinement
Chitta Shuddhi
Mind Lightness
"The more light we are, the more divine consciousness can come through."
"Learn to live lightly in your body and mind as a quest."
"We suffer when we assume too much responsibility."
the traveling life is more of a quest.
"don't stick to too many memories, let them go"
"the lighter we are, the more we can be happy."
"the masters liver very lightly."
4 Main Branches of Yoga
- Jnana
discover the divine in others. give up habit of criticism, judgement
cultivate habit iof loving observation
be in tune with your own divinity and tune to their divinity, healing happened
"lecture creates problems, better to sit in holy silence"
"the more centered we are, the more healing can come through us."
"doing the greatest service in perception."
"when we observe, can we bring in the aspect of Love."
Bliss Body has 5 properties
Priya: that which is lovable
"if we want to discover happiness in wold, it is possible."
"don't covet another's property."
Viveka: emotional maturity
Who are you?
what kind of life do you want?
internally honest
be ruthless in honesty
[story of the housekeeper]
[salt and water story]
Raga Yoga
to train our concentration
Bhakti
to purify our emotions
Karma
to purify our actions
Homework: Read these 3 upanishads
- Taittirīya (KYV)
- Īṣa (ŚYV)
- Māṇḍūkya (AV)
Pantajali's Yoga Sutras
using the Mind to turn the mind
Weak Concentration is one of the causes of suffering.
8 Limbs
samadhi
sama: same
dhi: intelligence of the heart
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Class at Krotona
Tonight I had the opportunity to work with the Theosophical Group here in Ojai at Krotona. Thank goodness Alana came to help me. Alana always makes things magic and it's so helpful to have a witness. Her feedback was, "Well that gives a whole new meaning to 'on the fly'."
I was nervous all day and a frog has been sitting in my throat for the last 2 days. I am so grateful for our relationship with Krotona that I really wanted it to go well. I called out to HPV Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Uma, Krishnamurti and Ravi Ravindra for assistance. Then as I drove there I gave it all up.
The meeting opens with a piano recital and then a silent meditation.
Then I was asked to start the yoga.
There were about 14 peeps on the floor and 4 peeps in their chairs.
Opening
Low Back Awareness
Breath Awareness
Apanasana (peeps in chairs could also do this)
Hamstring Stretch with Straps
Transition to Sides and Come to standing
Everyone got a chair
Standing forward fold on Chair
Hip Opener in Chair
Cat/Dog in Chair
Forward Fold in Chair
Swamp Monster and Hallelujah in Chair
Wise Guy in Chair
Chair Tadasana
Come to Standing
(2 of the peeps that had started sitting came to standing)
Tadasana
Little Tree Pose Both Sides
Tadasana
Transition to Floors
Windshield Wiper
Savasana
Sit and Close
I am learning not to judge or go over details of a class to much once it is over. I suppose it went well cuz they used words like "next time we'll mike you" and "we really want to get a class going here" so maybe that means I didn't blow it.
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