Abundance

Reading: 

We are who we are because of the good & the bad things that happened to us.  But when we become conscious of this, we can start to shed light on our darknesses.  Karma Yoga, the yoga of service, can be thought as action & reaction.  Vedanta: Voice of Freedom;” Man’s character is made from the impressions left upon us from both pain and pleasure.”  -Swami Vivekananda.  Tonight the glass is half full, not half empty, in fact is all the way full and maybe as we start to heat up and turn on our breath, movement, voices, hand gestures and prayers, we can begin to feel that cup start to overflow.  

Mudra: Kurbera Mudra,  thumb, index & middle finger touch.

Pranayama: Om with mouth closed eyes covered, releases seratonin, metabolism, thyroid stimulating

Chant: Abundance prayer: “Om shrim maha lakshmiyei swaha. Phonetically, it's Om shreem ma-hah lahk-sh-mee-yea sva-ah. 

Mantra: “My cup is half full”

Asana:  

Core

Sun A with upper body strengtheners

Sun B building a fun & deep flow

Mantra: (“My cup is full”)

Backbends

Hip openers

Inversions

Twists

Pranayama:  Om with wide open arms x 3

Reading: “Bhakti (the yoga of love or devotion) says have faith, while Jnana (the yoga of knowledge) says question everything.  Raja (the yoga of meditation) says control your mind, while Jnana says the controller is that which you are trying to control.  Bhakti says pray, serve, and surrender to God, while Jnana says prayer and ritual can strengthen separation-that we must see instead that we are already one with God.  There is no path to the truth, truth and spirit are living things, the limbs of yoga can serve as practices and tools to use on our journey.” -Ganga White

Meditation:

Poem: Kabir

“Breath in that word out of which the whole Milky Way has come!

That word is your teacher; I heard that sound, and I am its disciple.

How many are there alive who have taken in its meaning?

Listen student, hold to that word!  Do it!

All the old texts and holy poems shout about it, but no one grasps how mysterious the word is!  

The father gets up from supper and walks out when he hears it.

The ascetic returns to love when he hears it.

The Six Great Systems keep laying it all out.

The animal of renunciation drives toward that word.

The world with all its elephants and microbes has jumped out of that word.

Inside the word everything is full of light.

Kabir says: True, But who knows where the word came from in the first place?”

Song to Sing: Kabir’s Song by Snatum Kaur