Home practice

A message on developing a successful home practice from Dharma Mittra’s  newsletter:

Find a corner in your house, a little place. If you have a bigger house, find little room where you should do only your practices and nothing else; your meditation, your practice.

Have the picture of someone you believe, a guru, someone that you really believe in and respect, that you feel like God manifests through them. Before each practice, light incense in the house to purify the astral plane.

Keep your refrigerator free from animals, from meat, chicken, everything that involves yourself in cruelty. Then your house will be blessed indeed.

Before every practice you should bow and ask guidance. Do your meditation in that room. Do your exercise, surrendering all the fruits to the Lord. If you pray to the Lord don’t ask anything back; just appreciate His power, His beauty, that’s all. Don’t force yourself to much, do everything naturally. If you feel like not doing exercise today, do meditation. If don’t feel like meditating today, do pranayama. Or just sing for the Lord. There are so many kinds of yoga; bhakti yoga, jnana yoga, kundalini yoga.

Do little, very little, but everyday. That is better then spending three hours one day and then spending three or four days without doing anything. So just do two minutes, but everyday. Then you will really succeed.

Sri Dharma Mittra

You may say I’m a dreamer (1)

Launching a serie of beautiful yoga videos …
Starting with “Yoga in New York Project” …featuring friends, teachers, masters, amazing NYC backdrops, peaceful warriors, dancing queens, birds and many other aerial creatures, trees, flowers, rivers, snow…yellow cabs, towers and graffiti…

LIFE in so many forms and shapes!

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah/ Sarve Santu Niramayah /Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu/ Ma Kashcid Duhkha-Bhag Bhavet/ Om Shantih Shantih Shantih

~May all beings be happy. May all be free from sickness. May all see and experience what is good and beautiful in life. And may no one be unhappy. Om Peace. Peace. Peace. ~

Yoga unveiled

C’est à la fois émue ,toute petite et reconnaissante face à l’infinie immensité du yoga que j’écris ce modeste billet (pour ne pas rien dire même au risque de mal dire les choses).

Yoga Unveiled est une merveille de documentaire, une encyclopédie filmée sur la tradition du Yoga dont il retrace les origines et l’évolution.

Les témoignages des grands maîtres (dont certains ne sont plus parmi nous) m’ont bouleversé… en particulier,Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya(1888-1989) Quel visionnaire! Le citant, son fils TKV Desikachar dit ceci “ A hundred years from now people will acknowledge  Yoga as the greatest gift from India“. Sri Krishnamacharya était tout simplement un brahmin révolutionnaire, un chercheur infatigable, un guérisseur, un ambassadeur de sa culture. C’est le grand maître yogi contemporain qui, en sortant des caves de l’Himalaya à l’injonction de son gourou a ouvert le Yoga au reste du monde (et aux femmes… en commençant par la sienne). Iyengar est émouvant lorsqu’il raconte sa découverte et nous rappelle “yoga is not intended to promote the teacher, but to support the student”.

Mais il n’est pas possible de citer exhaustivement les participants à ce documentaire. Absolument chaque minute est à écouter (et peut-être méditer). Toute la richesse et la subtilité des uns et des autres est phénoménale.

Il y a ce mot en sanskrit Shraddha,qui se traduit par “foi”. La mienne dans le yoga s’est trouvée rafraîchie, renouvelée à la fin de ce documentaire unique. En le réalisant, Gita Desai et son mari ont, en quelque sorte rappelé l’immensité de l’héritage que nous ont laissés les grands maîtres.

Privilégiée et infiniment reconnaissante que le yoga fasse partie de ma vie, je suis.

Human body is attained with great difficulties. Being born in human species is the only way out of the prison of birth and death. If one misses this opportunity out of negligence, lethargy and hesitation one is bound to undergo, forever, the plight of birth and death. Hence rise, awake, attain eternal peace and bliss by being in contact with the best of mankind. ~ Shri Brahmananda Saraswati

Yoga is India’s gift to those wishing to become psychonauts—travelers in the inner space of consciousness. If you genuinely desire to know yourself more profoundly and make sense of the world in which you live, Yoga is a reliable, well-tested vehicle.~ Georg Feuerstein, in Is Yoga a Religion?

Oh surprise le film est sur  youtube ( créer une playlist permet de voir le film presque d’une traite).

Namasté,

Jeanine