art of living
there is a contact form on that site, what is that for?
applying for a meditating class?
i go there too
on marks place, new york…
best place
[QUOTE=oak333;64622]You can perform a google search for “SRF LESSONS APPLICATION”
A search for SRF LESSONS only (without application) will probably give some free lessons.[/QUOTE]
thanks, Oak!
great stuff!
here is also a great video for yoga beginners
there are few parts there
thanks!
welcome
kima, i used that patch you mentioned for my stretched leg, this thing really works! as i understood one need to apply each patch for 2-3 days, right? (that’s what i did)
Thats right.
Dear Anand,
I am really sorry. I am trying my level best to follow your steps. After many days of practice, I am back to square one. I still cannot understand and find a way to clear my confusions and conflicts.
I surrender to “Prana”, but still the act of surrender incorporates my body and mind. I let air (“Prana Sakthi”) take charge of automatically going in and coming out of what, my body and the feeling of it through my mind.
When things go beyond understanding, the well known suggestion comes here in the name of “Shradha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience)”.
Again how long this Shradha and Saburi has to go on, is still decided by one’s own karmic nature.
If everything is ultimately by karmic reactions of many births, why can’t I surrender every second directly, selflessly and absolutely to my karma instead of all other concepts?
[QUOTE=Anand Kulkarni;63983]
[li]Relax the body to the maximum, as if body is not there.[/li]regards
anand[/QUOTE]
Involves very much body & Mind.
[QUOTE=Anand Kulkarni;63983]
[ol]
[li][B]Allow[/B] the [B]automatic[/B] breathing to take place.[/li][/ol]
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How is it automatic? one just makes up the mind to feel it is automatic.
[QUOTE=Anand Kulkarni;63983]
[ol]
Please [B]don’t do[/B] anything yourself.
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[/QUOTE]
To practice this, I still need to differentiate between me (mind & body) not doing it, but the Unknown power “Prana” (that is also understood by mind & body by reading about Mahayoga) doing this automatically.
Isn’t this becoming “Chicken or egg like” situation?
Surrender to Thee!
Sahasrara.
[QUOTE=john32;64608]oak, do you mean that there are exercices that develop power of will?[/QUOTE]
“The great secret of yoga is concentration.”
YoganandaI quote from an interview of Dr. Stephen Sinatra, well known to heal almost impossible cases, where all other doctots gave up.
It is most important to instill in the patient the BELIEF that he will get well.
There is even a book to quote: Bology of Belief, by Bruce Lipton.
It is actually the patient who heals himself; the doctor just guides him.
Dr. S. Sinatra believed so much in the healing power of belief that he took a course of Gestalt Therapy., which resolves blocks and tensions in the body. Otherwise said, it is the good old qi gong, which TCM (traditional Chinese Medicine) has been practising for
thousands of years.
Gestalt Therapy uses Bioenergetics, already discussed on this forum.
could you tell more about it?
[QUOTE=Sahasrara;64983]Dear Anand,
I am really sorry. I am trying my level best to follow your steps. After many days of practice, I am back to square one. I still cannot understand and find a way to clear my confusions and conflicts.
I surrender to “Prana”, but still the act of surrender incorporates my body and mind. I let air (“Prana Sakthi”) take charge of automatically going in and coming out of what, my body and the feeling of it through my mind.
When things go beyond understanding, the well known suggestion comes here in the name of “Shradha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience)”.
Again how long this Shradha and Saburi has to go on, is still decided by one’s own karmic nature.
If everything is ultimately by karmic reactions of many births, why can’t I surrender every second directly, selflessly and absolutely to my karma instead of all other concepts?
Involves very much body & Mind.
How is it automatic? one just makes up the mind to feel it is automatic.
To practice this, I still need to differentiate between me (mind & body) not doing it, but the Unknown power “Prana” (that is also understood by mind & body by reading about Mahayoga) doing this automatically.
Isn’t this becoming “Chicken or egg like” situation?
Surrender to Thee!
Sahasrara.[/QUOTE]
Dear Friend:
There is absolutely no question of surrendering to [I]karma[/I] as these were in the first place done in the domain of “physical I-ness”.
In mahayoga introductory practice, it is this “physical I-ness” that is surrendering to the driving force, prana, via the manifestation of this force in the form of automatic breathing. [B](The word automatic is important, because in the practice, one should not impose any pattern. Let the air come in, go out or stay still)[/B]
One may ask, if everything is a manifestation of [I]Prana[/I], why select automatic breath? The answer is that in animated creatures, breathing is the native form of [I]Prana~Shakti[/I]. Following it is following the movement of [I]Prana[/I].
[B]Not imposing one’s mind on something and having faith in it is known as [I]Shraddha[/I][/B]. So have [I]Shraddha[/I] in the divine living force known as [I]Prana~Shakti[/I], pray to Goddess [I]Saraswat[/I]i or your Guru and sit for Mahayoga Introductory Practice.
Another thing to be remembered is that [I][B]Atman and Prana are two sides of the same coin.[/B][/I]
Please continue the practice. Through this, mind will learn total surrender, by which, Grace will descend i.e. prana shakti will ascend.
regards
anand
thank you!
what is maha yoga?
i think maha yoga is a theory of yoga. i’ve read some articles about it - to unprepared mind it’s a huge challenge to understand…