Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,
This week in class we are considering the topic “Rising Above Sex.”
You have to rise above sex – not struggle with it, but rise above it. Because, if you do not have an overall concentrated urge or ambition in life, then the clamour of these little senses becomes a great din in your life. Your life will always be under that clamour. But, if you have got an overwhelming urge for something else, then this clamour does not reach you at all because you are too busy engaging your entire attention in some other direction.
- Swami Chidananda
The homework is to consider the fifth and sixth limbs of Yoga: Pratyahara – refinement of the senses and Dharana – concentration. With the reading in mind consider how the practices of Pratyahara and Dharana can help you cultivate “an overwhelming urge for something else.” What would this overwhelming urge for something else be?
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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