Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
Here is a Sanskrit Prayer for all of you for the New Year:
Om.
May there be peace in heaven. May there be peace in the sky.
May there be peace on earth. May there be peace in water.
May there be peace in plants. May there be peace in trees.
May there be peace in the Gods. May there be peace in Brahman.
May there be peace in all. May that peace, real peace, be mine…and yours.
-Taittiriya Uppanisad
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
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, December 28, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Overcoming Negativity Through Witnessing
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
In class this week we are talking about “Overcoming Negativity Through Witnessing.”
The harder we struggle against our negativity, the more energy we give it and the stronger it becomes. The only way out is to watch. If you are maintaining your stance as a witness, you will catch your mind spinning out a string of negative comments. Then, you can intervene.
-Aruna Bhargava
The reflection from the quote is to use your asana practice as a training ground for observing your thoughts. Notice what comes up and intervene in order to become more present with your practice. Then take this work off of the mat and apply it to your negative thoughts.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
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
In class this week we are talking about “Overcoming Negativity Through Witnessing.”
The harder we struggle against our negativity, the more energy we give it and the stronger it becomes. The only way out is to watch. If you are maintaining your stance as a witness, you will catch your mind spinning out a string of negative comments. Then, you can intervene.
-Aruna Bhargava
The reflection from the quote is to use your asana practice as a training ground for observing your thoughts. Notice what comes up and intervene in order to become more present with your practice. Then take this work off of the mat and apply it to your negative thoughts.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
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, December 7, 2008
Melting Away Anger
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
In class this week we are talking about “Melting Away Anger.”
Once you begin to watch your anger, you will make an interesting discovery. You will find that as soon as you know you are angry, your anger will melt away by itself. It is very important that you watch with out likes and dislikes. The more you are able to look at your own anger without making judgments, without being critical, the more easily the anger will dissipate.
- Thynn Thynn
The reflection from the quote is to work to just witness the seeds of your anger without labeling it. From this awareness actively turn your anger into a positive emotion like compassion or love.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
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
In class this week we are talking about “Melting Away Anger.”
Once you begin to watch your anger, you will make an interesting discovery. You will find that as soon as you know you are angry, your anger will melt away by itself. It is very important that you watch with out likes and dislikes. The more you are able to look at your own anger without making judgments, without being critical, the more easily the anger will dissipate.
- Thynn Thynn
The reflection from the quote is to work to just witness the seeds of your anger without labeling it. From this awareness actively turn your anger into a positive emotion like compassion or love.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
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, December 1, 2008
Harnessing the Energy of Anger
Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
In class this week we are talking about “Harnessing the Energy of Anger.”
By expressing anger to another person, you harm yourself in two ways. First, you block channels of communication with the other person, which, for better or worse, are part of the flow-pattern that nourishes your life – even if that person represents and endless source of frustration for you. Secondly, you contract your understanding of the particular moment. The energy which you express as anger should be more appropriately used to expand this understanding.
If you refrain from expressing your anger, then it becomes possible for three things to happen. First of all, you have the opportunity to recognize the senselessness of anger, and the need to do something progressive. Next, you become aware of your responsibility for the difficulty, whatever it may be. This allows you to begin to turn it around inside for a while, after which you can articulate it not as frustration, but as a higher understanding. Finally, in doing this, you can change whatever it is that you have been doing to generate such situations. You can also, at the same time, free the other person from what maybe has been unconscious behavior, developed in reaction to you or to some misunderstanding between you.
Anger is really only a demonstration of some blockage in your own system, and not in anybody else’s.
-Swami Chetananda
The reflection from the quote is to notice the seeds of anger at the earliest point in their development - mentally and physiologically. From this awareness work to turn these seeds into love.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St.,
Camas, WA 8607
360.834.5994
http://www.rushingwateryoga.com/
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
In class this week we are talking about “Harnessing the Energy of Anger.”
By expressing anger to another person, you harm yourself in two ways. First, you block channels of communication with the other person, which, for better or worse, are part of the flow-pattern that nourishes your life – even if that person represents and endless source of frustration for you. Secondly, you contract your understanding of the particular moment. The energy which you express as anger should be more appropriately used to expand this understanding.
If you refrain from expressing your anger, then it becomes possible for three things to happen. First of all, you have the opportunity to recognize the senselessness of anger, and the need to do something progressive. Next, you become aware of your responsibility for the difficulty, whatever it may be. This allows you to begin to turn it around inside for a while, after which you can articulate it not as frustration, but as a higher understanding. Finally, in doing this, you can change whatever it is that you have been doing to generate such situations. You can also, at the same time, free the other person from what maybe has been unconscious behavior, developed in reaction to you or to some misunderstanding between you.
Anger is really only a demonstration of some blockage in your own system, and not in anybody else’s.
-Swami Chetananda
The reflection from the quote is to notice the seeds of anger at the earliest point in their development - mentally and physiologically. From this awareness work to turn these seeds into love.
Blessings,
paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
417 NE Birch St.,
Camas, WA 8607
360.834.5994
http://www.rushingwateryoga.com/
info@rushingwateryoga.com
Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003
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