Class on Consciousness

Theme:  Moving with consciousness.  Taking conscious breaths linking opening poses & falling with Grace.

Chants:  

om kriyam namah

om - womb

kriya - action

namah- self reflecting upon the self.  

Translation: “My actions are in alignment with the universe.”

Asana:

Sun A x3

Sun B x3

1. To Low lunge with some deep psoas openers, then up to Crescent lunge and a flow from there.
2. To Warrior II with lots of flow from there to open the heart and hips
3. To runner’s lunge, half-pidgeon, seated spinal twist to standing split to WIII to Half Moon to Chaprasana then other side.

Backbends & Twists

Warm-down

Meditation: Knowing thy true self & connecting to the whole.  Witnessing the breath: the inhales, exhales & the gaps in between.  Take that awareness to the mind.  Witness the thoughts & the gaps in between. 

“Our natural state is divine, eternal & free. Maya, or ignorance, creates the illusion that we are separate from the divine or universe.  The truth is that we are connected to the whole.  This connection to the universe enables us to be infinitely powerful & not mediocre.” -Vedanta, A Simple Introduction

“Be afraid of nothing-you have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding. -Eileen Caddy

-The power we hold in connection to the universe enables us to act out our karma & make change in our lives.  As we work things out lifetime after lifetime, we free our spirits of thought patterns & other emotional baggage.

Poems:

Kabir - 

There’s a moon inside my body, but I can’t see it!

A moon & a sun.

A drum never touched by hands, beating, & I can’t hear it!

As long as human being worry about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero.  When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.

The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.  The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petals fall.

The musk is inside the deer, but the deer does not look for it: it wanders around looking for grass.  

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Gayatri Mantra (sing to them)

Aum bhoor bhuwah swaha,

Tat savitur varenyam

Bargo Devasya Dheemahi

Dhiyo yo naha prachodayat

“May the almighty GOD illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path.”

Closing prayer: For more people to come to know thy Self.