Yoga

So, I'm just finding out about 3 senior Anusara teachers renouncing their Anusara certifications, so that they can just teach yoga. I'm elated! I love Ashtanga, I love Kundalini Yoga and I love Anusara yoga.

But I love them as techniques to teach you how to get in connection with your inner being, your yoga. So it makes me happy when I see things like this. Not the separation of it, but the inclusiveness of it. I love seeing that they want to make it accessible to everyone, the techniques they use to get in connection, without it having a label or a very specific focus.

This has been my goal for the past couple years. Even though in the past couple years I've been focusing on Kundalini yoga, I think mostly to get in touch with the energy movements in the body and the effect that the sound current has on the body, and how the mind is affected by both of these aspects. I also am now certified in kundalini and teach straight up classes of it, but I also am having most of my students be my hatha students who want to take it to the next level. They also are still coming to my hatha classes or vinyasa classes, whatever you feel like calling them, and seeing the benefits of connecting to the energy on the level of a kundalini yoga class, but also seeing how it applies in a more asana/vinyasa based practice. Then you're able to start tapping into the depth of it when you're moving in a vinyasa practice, once you've sat still and learned how it feels that way.

So, awesome.

I know everyone talks a great game. I teach this style of yoga but we believe everyone should get along. Rather than just getting along and supporting them, going to their classes and making it your own experience, and welcoming them when they come to yours. Yoga=union with the divine, right? So if you're divine and you're in connection with it, in your way, and I in mine, why not lets have a conversation and compare the similarities of our connections, or of our ways of connecting, rather than focusing on the differences?

I love yoga, yes its hard sometimes, yes it takes you deep into your emotions and emotional issues, which isn't always something we want to deal with, yes it can make you feel better, yes it gets your body and mind more open and available, to yourself as well as to others. And yes, sometimes its the last thing you want to do, but always most people feel better afterwards. Always, you feel more connected, to what you ask? To what? Ask yourself that, not me. I know what I feel, and if am in your vicinity can often tell what you're feeling, but it most likely makes you feel differently than it makes me feel. So use it, in whatever way it works for you, tune in, tap in and turn yourself on.

Its not time anymore for our light switches to be left off, its time for us all to turn them on, and find the way for our inner light to shine out. And if yoga is one of those ways, use it, do it, be it and live it. If music is one of those things, use it, play it, be in it, and live it. Hell, if music within yoga is one of those things . . .

You get the point right?

Sat nam all you beautiful beings and happy Age of Aquarius as of this Friday!