somatic
to me, yoga is a practice of deep relationality.
a practice of asana will immediately lead you to relate to your body, your breath, soma, the earth below you, the sky above you, the fellow beings next to you, the celestial dancers swirling all around.
it can become an inquiry into refining those relationships.
and there, as I am guiding a practice, my invitation is pretty much consistent: one of intimacy and tenderness towards all that you are touching and all that is touching you.
because there is nothing stronger in the world than tenderness.
i teach all level alignment-based bhakti infused vinyasa, incorporating meditation, pranayama, chanting and a strong attention to the 8 limbs of yoga.
weekly classes tuesday 12pm wednesday 9:15am thursday 12pm saturday 12pm at my local sanctuary santa cruz yoga.
sonic
it is said that the universe is sonic. life is musical. sound recapitulates the pulses of creation itself, arising out of itself, swelling to fullness, dissipating into a sky of reverberation before sounding again.
chanting together brings about the experience of oneness and interconnectedness, of heightened perceptive awareness when we can actually feel in our hearts our connection to one another. we have to find our way to do it in this kind of fragmented individualized world, it is vital.
chanting together is opening up to a force that brings our small and limited perspective to join the river of voices that have called the mantras and bhajans for hundreds-if not thousands-of years.
kirtan is creating and offering that container for us to come in resonance through chanting, singing, dancing. we bring our voice into a singular focal point, we harmonize the myriad of view points into one flow of compassionate intention. what a medicine for a time of division and greater polarities, to remember presence, the long view and the radical depth of our interconnectedness.
and what an honor we get to carry the thread of OM during this lifetime and allow it to flow into the next.
may we hear the vibrational melody of the universe and sing back.
join our next kirtan with temple bliss
