Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “True Love Transforms.”
The highest understanding of Love lies in its power to transform lives, restore health, and bring about a sense of total well-being. It is the other end of the spectrum which is directed by desire – the limited, contracted form of Love – that has a tremendously destructive potential.
- Swami Chetanananda
The homework is to consider how your Yoga practice can help you develop more discrimination, especially as it relates to desires. What is the end result when we become more aware of our desires and evaluate them in light of their impact on our relationships?
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
True Love
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “True Love.”
We expect our wives or husbands or children to make us happy by behaving the way our ego desires. We all want others to make us feel important, wise and attractive. So we spend twenty to fifty years living together – expecting and demanding many things from each other – but this has nothing to do with experiencing our love and walking on the real spiritual path.
When we truly love someone, we love the Light within that person. The process of enlightenment is the path of learning to appreciate the Light both within ourselves and those we love, and seeking to allow the full expression of our Self as well as the Self of others.
- Swami Rama
The homework is to determine what Yoga practices you can use to start to appreciate your own innate goodness. Work on developing your own inner Light and then use the same practices to appreciate others innate goodness. Observe the external changes that are associated with the combination of the two practices. Notice if the result is the movement of this innate goodness outward into the world.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
This week in class we are considering the topic “True Love.”
We expect our wives or husbands or children to make us happy by behaving the way our ego desires. We all want others to make us feel important, wise and attractive. So we spend twenty to fifty years living together – expecting and demanding many things from each other – but this has nothing to do with experiencing our love and walking on the real spiritual path.
When we truly love someone, we love the Light within that person. The process of enlightenment is the path of learning to appreciate the Light both within ourselves and those we love, and seeking to allow the full expression of our Self as well as the Self of others.
- Swami Rama
The homework is to determine what Yoga practices you can use to start to appreciate your own innate goodness. Work on developing your own inner Light and then use the same practices to appreciate others innate goodness. Observe the external changes that are associated with the combination of the two practices. Notice if the result is the movement of this innate goodness outward into the world.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Monday, March 15, 2010
Love and Sex
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Love and Sex.”
Sex is a sensation. Love is a state of being, a lasting relationship which we can slowly make permanent. That is the deepest desire of all of us, to make this state of union permanent.
- Eknath Easwaran
The homework is to explore for yourself what it means to make Love a permanent state of being. Consider how the various practices of Yoga can assist you in this process.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
This week in class we are considering the topic “Love and Sex.”
Sex is a sensation. Love is a state of being, a lasting relationship which we can slowly make permanent. That is the deepest desire of all of us, to make this state of union permanent.
- Eknath Easwaran
The homework is to explore for yourself what it means to make Love a permanent state of being. Consider how the various practices of Yoga can assist you in this process.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
Sunday, March 7, 2010
The Law of Love
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “The Law of Love.”
The most ancient traveler in the world is called love. Even before this earth came into existence, that omnipotent and omniscient power called truth expanded to create the universe because of love. Love means expansion. And then there is the opposite, called hatred or contraction. Watch what happens someday when you start hating somebody – when someone is not doing what you want, is not fulfilling your expectations. You contract your personality, you isolate yourself. So there are two laws of life: the law of expansion, and the law of contraction.
- Swami Rama
The homework is to notice the next time you start to go down the path of contraction – of not loving. The practice of Yoga helps us tune in more to our physical and mental bodies. In addition to the mental aspects of contraction start to notice how the process of contraction feels physiologically. Use this awareness to help you change your path of contraction to expansion – or love.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
This week in class we are considering the topic “The Law of Love.”
The most ancient traveler in the world is called love. Even before this earth came into existence, that omnipotent and omniscient power called truth expanded to create the universe because of love. Love means expansion. And then there is the opposite, called hatred or contraction. Watch what happens someday when you start hating somebody – when someone is not doing what you want, is not fulfilling your expectations. You contract your personality, you isolate yourself. So there are two laws of life: the law of expansion, and the law of contraction.
- Swami Rama
The homework is to notice the next time you start to go down the path of contraction – of not loving. The practice of Yoga helps us tune in more to our physical and mental bodies. In addition to the mental aspects of contraction start to notice how the process of contraction feels physiologically. Use this awareness to help you change your path of contraction to expansion – or love.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994
www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
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