Evolution Transformation through Yoga                                                            

Dec  16, 2006

Volume 3, Number 6

“They must change often, who would be constant in happiness”

- Confucius

Please send your feedback/appreciations on the classes to vikasayoga@yahoo.com; your suggestions, comments and certainly appreciation will help others to benefit from the service.

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Ash Aragam

Vikasa Yoga

Phone

215-514-3089

E-mail

vikasayoga@yahoo.com

We’re on the Web!

www.vikasayoga.com

Important

If you are new to the Yoga classes, please read the precautions. In a large class, it is not possible to pay individual attention. You should always seek the instructor’s advice before practicing. Drop an email before the class or come in early to discuss.

Yoga and change

So you are all settled down, your routine is well established. You take time daily to do some spiritual activities. You pray to God that this constancy carries on so that you can always be happy as you are.

Suddenly, say, your spouse decides to change his job. After living with him for 15 years you would think he would have told you well before! Welcome to reality. Your routine is now all changed! You need to take care of extra tasks, those that he would normally do. At the same time your work load is increasing and you see opportunities for more success. A change in routine is the last thing that you want to happen. Within a few days you are all worked up, you are almost angry at your spouse and at yourself for getting into all this. Your frustration is not only back, but also increasing.

This is certainly a point where you need to go back to your Yoga practice. What does yoga teach you as a foremost lesion? Detachment or non-attachment. A Yogi is never attached to anything – even to happiness. Happiness is a result of what your are doing and not an end-goal in itself. Because when you consider happiness as a goal, what would you do after you achieve it? It is not a state where you want to end your journey. Happiness is a point where things or the spirit starts to flow out of you.

So the challenge is to strive to stay happy. What could you do? Welcome change for one. Nothing is more constant than change – as the popular saying goes. So learn to deal with change. If an approach does not work, don’t get hung up with trying to make the approach succeed. Think of alternatives. You will find that using an alternative will not only save you time in solving the problem, but it will also keep you happy. When you get attached to a thing or an approach, you are stuck in the muck. To paraphrase Yoda from the movie ‘Star Wars’, Despair leads to frustration, frustration leads to anger and anger leads to hatred.

When you feel stuck, all it needs is to take a step back and breathe well for some time. Get back into the meditative mood. It helps to practice meditation daily for this matter, not just when you need it. Such constant practice helps you stay ahead and keep yourself detached and ultimately always happy.

Yoga at Plymouth Balvihar

There is a special yoga class this Sunday at 2 PM for those who want a much gentler session due to physical limitations or age. We will practice a lot of breathing and meditation. Bring a friend of yours who you will think will benefit. You would be doing a service to him or her.

PS: If you have any medical conditions, it is best to consult your doctor and your instructor personally to discuss what is appropriate for you. Personal one on one session(s) and not group classes may be necessary to determine what is right given your specific conditions, as the right prescription requires constant feedback, monitoring and corrections. Please ask your instructor for basic precautions before attending a Yoga class.

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Evolution Transformation through Yoga                                                            

Dec  09, 2006

Volume 3, Number 5

“Understand well the meaning of life, and then start the quest.”

- Swami Sivananda

Please send your feedback/appreciations on the classes to vikasayoga@yahoo.com; your suggestions, comments and certainly appreciation will help others to benefit from the service.

 FAQ

Precautions

Schedule

Fees

Class Audio

Appreciations

Recommendations

-          Books

-          Music

      Free Class Audio

Ash Aragam

Vikasa Yoga

Phone

215-514-3089

E-mail

vikasayoga@yahoo.com

We’re on the Web!

www.vikasayoga.com

Important

If you are new to the Yoga classes, please read the precautions. In a large class, it is not possible to pay individual attention. You should always seek the instructor’s advice before practicing. Drop an email before the class or come in early to discuss.

Being in touch

 "There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. Certainly there is a right for you that needs no choice on your part. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into your life. Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I don’t think Emerson was talking about yoga when he said this. He didn’t have to. For Yoga is not something specific to a religion or to a country. And there is no one way of Yoga.

‘There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word’. Emerson is saying that each one of us is born here for a purpose and that purpose is our right. By lowly listening he means, in yogic terms, meditation. By trying to attain that absolute calm, one can truly connect with one’s Self. Then you will hear what is spoken through your Self. It flows out of you effortlessly. To paraphrase Dr. Wayne Dyer ‘When you are inspired, i.e., in Spirit, the source energy flows out of you effortlessly’.

‘Certainly there is a right for you that needs no choice on your part’. You don’t have to struggle to find out what is that you need to do in a given moment or in your life’s time. You don’t have to make a choice. Your purpose is there within your Self. The trick is to find out what it is. How do you do that? First of all, give up the attitude of ‘I do the most, I get the most’. It is not about getting. Once you let go of the ‘getting’ part, you have opened up many, many blocked energy channels within yourself. Then the energy starts flowing. Then you are letting yourself be in the steam of power and wisdom that flows in your life as Emerson said.

Many people get carried away when asked what is your purpose in life? For one, it need not becoming a CEO or a manager with hundreds of reports. That would be your ego speaking. If you study the lives of many successful people you will find they are happy in what they are doing. When I say successful people, think Mahatma Gandhi, not Kenneth Lay. Think Warren Buffet, not someone with those fleets of Ferraris. Success comes out of happiness. Pursue happiness and success and more importantly, your purpose in life will stand out for yourself.

Yoga at Plymouth Balvihar

The special yoga class last week was enjoyed by all those who attended. The attendance can be better. I am sure, you will have parents and friends who can benefit from such a class. For the time being, these classes are free and at a later time there would a nominal fee. In other words, fee won’t be a deterrent. So please attempt to make it to the class. We will have another of these classes very soon.

PS: If you have any medical conditions, it is best to consult your doctor and your instructor personally to discuss what is appropriate for you. Personal one on one session(s) and not group classes may be necessary to determine what is right given your specific conditions, as the right prescription requires constant feedback, monitoring and corrections. Please ask your instructor for basic precautions before attending a Yoga class.

Your privacy is well respected. If you would like to unsubscribe to these communications, please reply to this email with the word 'Remove' in the subject; if you are part of an email group, please contact the group administrator.