I am from the urban ashram, not the academic hall these days, but my aim and interest in the yoga classes I teach lies in stimulating body, soul, and mind, in balance, with all three densities vibrating in harmonious chording. There's way more on the yogic/buddhist/hindu/philosophical/quantum energetic, kinetic map than physical movement to generate "buns of steel", although the physical side effects of regular disciplined saddhna, seem to be the main draw for most of the current beginners in the "yoga crazed" culture of these times. Especially in California. I am here because my work is to keep awareness of the divine and extraordinary po…
I am from the urban ashram, not the academic hall these days, but my aim and interest in the yoga classes I teach lies in stimulating body, soul, and mind, in balance, with all three densities vibrating in harmonious chording. There's way more on the yogic/buddhist/hindu/philosophical/quantum energetic, kinetic map than physical movement to generate "buns of steel", although the physical side effects of regular disciplined saddhna, seem to be the main draw for most of the current beginners in the "yoga crazed" culture of these times. Especially in California. I am here because my work is to keep awareness of the divine and extraordinary possibility and poetry that can spark microcosmic Big Bangs ("quickies?" haha) within the limited, temporal, dualistic human body and experience. To me, each body is a universe. Standing at a distance, each body is an echo of The Universe exactly, but standing in one's own skin, the body, from origin(s?) to death(s?) forges a unique and unforged path, or thread, on it's journey from "a" to "b". Thats what interests me about movement. Consciousness of how our steps in our lifetime (or our thoughts, or our beliefs, etc) are not inconsequential. They are intrinsic. The very balance of the entire Universe rests on each body's perfect and unique and time/space weaving of the thread in the tapestry that is the Universe. That is would not be the Universe excluding any one of the single threads. So we are all, in my opinion pretty damn important. Yet, we are not at all unique. We are parts of the same body and everybody is made of the same star. How does this pas de deux, the dance of Whole and Shattered, fall (breathe) so easy and so labored at the same time within human (creation's) existence? And also why do we have the need, the urge to even wonder or care if a step is more than just a step, a kiss just a kiss, a sigh just a sigh... The fundamental questions apply...
As Time Goes By, Anahatha Lara Sackey
