My experiences, thoughts and their expression: mi vida

Today I read a posting by my Yoga Therapy teacher, Marlysa Sullivan, and it struck me so helpful, hopeful, nice...yet, so difficult for me, and maybe so for so many others...humanity, maybe? Yet, it seems that all traditions, and old Saints, Masters, sages, were telling us about it eons ago! Her post is found at... anatomyofyoga.com  and it is about understanding our nature, our nature at its deepest level. The post is titled... Understanding the Nature of Self as the Strength of the Container  . You can read it on the link, and might want to be patient as you go thru the quotes and terms of an ancient tradition, one which tells so much about our nature. But there are two paragraphs that really "hit" me. They "boil it" down in terms I can understand, and maybe you the reader can too. They are: "In my studies, I have often come across the idea of creating mindfulness, discrimination, the capacity to witness all that arises without judgment and had cons...

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I am preparing the outline for a Yoga class and thinking of the breath-work to practice today, continuing the work done in the classes past. Breath-work is so neat! It is vital - what happens when it stops, for ever? - and it is so sweet, esp. when gasping after hard work, or a run, or a flight of stairs. In the Yoga world, it is part of the Yoga practice, intrinsically tide to everything else. And it is a gateway calming the incessant mind, and its plans, and its review of the past, and its fears, precautions, mandates...agggghhhhh!!! "Shut up please!", I sometimes "yell" to myself (nobody else hears it...!), for those voices consume energy: they are exhausting! Buy Yoga reminds me, reminds its practitioners, that thru the breath, we can calm the heart rate, and focus on the 'beats' and from there continue on to a soothing, calming moment in the daily routine and its "noise". So in writing the outline, and taking a break for some coffee, the...