The business required minimal attention throughout the day, so Vasudev was able to pursue other interests during his time off, like writing poetry. Poetry and yoga are both ways to remove illusions. Yoga helps you to be in the heart, and the body, rather than in the "citta vrittis" of the mind. As we all know by now, the word yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means "yoke" or "union." Yoga unifies the body and mind through the breath, opening channels of energy that send the life force- prana or ki-through the body. Even though you might practice in a group or sangha, no one can get inside your body and move your prana like you can, except for some very rare wizards and enlightened beings. There are fitness and yoga instructors who can guide the participants about how to mix exercises to improve blood flow in the body. That little red book there on my bedside table. I was very touched by this gesture and sat the book by my bed for a few weeks, as I tend to do.

After my friend Steve Bridges passed away 2 months ago, my dear friend Lhotse Hawk sent me a book in the mail. This book is a thorough explanation of the ego - what it is - how did it get there - and what we do about it. When I get on my mat, if I’m in my head, I can’t stay there for long. Since I’m a poet, people sometimes ask me how writing and yoga go together. MC Yogi says: "Leza’s poems are pure gems of wisdom that will wake you up, inspire you, challenge you, move you, and call you to action to live your yoga more fully. I am including 2 poems from each of her gorgeous books. He was the youngest of five children to Susheela Vasudev (mother) and B.V. Conversations is a candid discussion with the Divine Mother of the Universe. When you live in the moment, you realize how inter-connected everything in the universe is. Peace, joy, acceptance and calm arise.

Through yoga, the heart opens, and everything in life begins to shift towards balance and acceptance. When you do a yoga pose, your mind begins to wander. The, take time to write down anything that came to your mind about what it means or what it would look like to be kind to yourself. Nothing frees up the mind better than pure, pranic movement! Leza writes below: Can we see our world and everything in it as nothing less than miraculous and divine? It can go beyond consciousness. She can be yours forever if you can give her such gifts. Can we embrace the stillness, just being rather than constantly doing? The experience of working in a yoga pose, doing it over and over and over again to find alignment and release, not being attached to some idea or image of a "perfect pose," helped me see that the same process in writing was not a "failure" but a necessary and important part of creativity. Please put down what you are doing and read my favorite author of the moment. Draw a line down the middle of a piece of paper.

Just stop and take that line in. This, in itself, is enough to stop me in my tracks. If you can trust the unknown enough to fully surrender to what is, rather than looking toward a future of what could be, you begin to fully live in the moment. Browsing on the web can also provide you with the details of the upcoming free events in New York. She has fostered a vast charitable organization known as Embracing the World which includes schools, hospitals, orphanages, free homes for the destitute and feeding tens of millions of starving people - all from a woman born into a very poor family and who never made it past the fourth grade in school. In his first years of teaching, many of Zink's students were martial arts practitioners who had developed strong but tight muscles, and he taught them only beginner level Taoist Yoga, focusing on long-held yin poses to alleviate their lack of flexibility.

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