Enlightenment: The Reality Show
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What's This Course About Anyway?
What is Yoga? (that depends on who you ask) "The stilling of the movements of the mind" (YS 1.2)- Yoga is a meditative technique that brings stillness and connects one to the divine force "Skill in Action" (BG 4.22) - Yoga is one's ability to perform one's action with the utmost skill so that one might always "act" properly "Yoga is a technique which stops death"(HYP 2.16) - yogic techniques are meant to stop the natural processes of time and have one experience the eternal divine force. "Yoga is the practice of non attachment" (BG 6.15) -Yoga is the ability to perform a ll actions according to one's purpose (dharma) without regard to the consequences of these actions. "Yoga is a form of exercise which p ractice a designed to empower you with the focus, training and insight you need to achieve consistent results in the most important areas of your life." (Baron Baptiste)- Yoga is a form of physical culture w...
Weekly Journalling About Somatic Practice
You will be REQUIRED to practice AT LEAST once a week OUTSIDE OF CLASS. Free classes are available at Yoga Nine ONLINE (Zoom) but there are many other options. After practices in class and on your own, please complete a REFLECTIVE JOURNAL after each practice. Here are some general questions you might consider when doing your WEEKLY journaling. Journals are submitted via your personal BLOG. You can make a blog on this format (blogger for free with a google/gmail account), or any other format. Please email me your blog address so that I can post it in this blog. If you would like your blog to be private (not available to the rest of class), please "close" access to your blog, but allow me in as a reader (you must give me access) . Blog addresses are due to me via email by September 15. Blog posts are due every FRIDAY by midnight. Each week on your syllabus, you will be given a prompt which is reflective of the class topical material, but please feel free to ...