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Day 4 Hridaya Yoga!! I woke up today with the sun around 6am feeling quite wonderful and after my morning porridge, checking emails and a little reading it was time for class. First up we went straight into our meditation with a focus on our heart centre - amazingly I was able to hold my position much better today and realize the minds sneaky attempts to lure me away from non-thinking. At one point during meditation a huge happiness came over my body and a smile ear to ear is what I wore for the rest of the session. I had some wonderful thoughts that I was able to watch and let go - attaching myself to none and so not associating myself with any. Moving straight into our yoga class I was able to keep my consciousness awareness and really feel energies and parts of my body. Everything started to make sense today; why I have practiced yoga for so long, my once obsession with clean eating, my obsession with exercise and everything else all seemed to make sense at this point. I even had a revelation as to what direction my life might lead from this point on - not to attach to the thought but recognize its validity. We held difficult poses for long periods of time and I managed to shift my focus from pain and discomfort to stillness and gracefulness thanks to the meditation. It as if everything I had ever truly searched for was being presented in this moment, to let go of the past and future if only for a short time allowed something that words can't describe. Our warmup was sun salutations and I noticed my fear or laziness and was able to overcome it - this emotion being not of the body but of the mind. I can't help but realize the mess in my mind and how it has lead me on a self destructive past - this probably all sounds crazy and trust me it is :) Relaxation came again and I struggled to stay awake - take note: from now on when I struggle to sleep I know what to do. The lecture followed and was a round up of Hridaya and Hatha yoga - we looked at why the importance on meditation and how this enables our witness consciousness to come about and then we can focus on feeling energies within our body. Our bodies are talking to us all the time but its not until we are silenced in our minds can we observe these feelings. I talked with our teacher after the class and had to express all the magical things that were happening and that it was through her belief and her love for this practice that I was able to experience it on the same plain. We talked about the possibility of me attending the head school in Mazunte Mexico as just this morning the school had excepted my request to join their second module of the course. I am not sure if I will go but at the moment the feeling is I want nothing else but as I am learning from this practice I will except only the moment and make my decision as the time draws nearer. After a brief chat with my fellow students and a tasty lunch I was off into town and down the hill to my favorite spot - the dock to gather some sunshine and write this blog. The rain started but I decided to stay and glad I did as I got to meet the two Jose's a father and son duo that had come down the dock to fish. Amazingly my Spanish has improved and I could understand a good percentage of what young Jose was saying. On the way back up the hill I got to meet the chocolate shaman Keith who I had recently written to about the possibility of attending one of his cacao ceremonies - he was trading coins for quetzals with one of the local kids and we had a good chat about coins before I was back on my way. I can't explain but everything I did today had more life more flavour; I noticed myself in others, I noticed gestures and I noticed kindness - am I walking in the kingdom of heaven?? Maybe maybe not but it doesn't matter whatever is happening to me is magical.
OBSERVATIONS:
- A Glimpse at pure joy
- Meditation - Making senses
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