Rebalancing With Yoga

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

This week in class we are considering the topic “Dealing With Difficulties.”

Rebalancing With Yoga

Disease indicates that we have been making an error in terms of our lifestyle or thinking and therefore have become imbalanced. It shows that we must make some changes if we are to live a healthy, fuller and more joyous existence. Yoga teaches us that we must learn to use and value our sufferings as springboards in our spiritual evolution. Somehow we have lost our awareness of who we are and how we should lead useful and aware lives. Loss of awareness allows disease to creep in. When we are sick, we are forced by nature to wake up to our transgressions of natural laws. Regaining our awareness through Yogic practices is the key to health. The Yogic process brings about rebalance, insight, understanding and appreciation of these universal, natural laws which operate in the world we live in.

- Swami Karmananda Saraswati

The homework is to consider how it is that our sufferings can act as springboards in our spiritual evolution. What is it about the practices of Yoga that helps us understand the universal natural laws? What are the universal natural laws?

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
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Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003