Light = Lightness

I went to a yoga workshop this weekend, an Anusara - flowing with Grace, one. The lady who led it is an amazing practitioner. She travels all over sharing and healing. She said that when something chaotic or "bad" happens to a yogi, they can recover from it quickly because they are more and more aware of their center. This is the practice of yoga - uniting with the divine - the higher, magnificently intelligent self. When we feel this connection with the divine, the misfortunes that arise in our lives that do make us a bit wobbly around our center are not as jolting. As yogis, we are practicing to make our centers brighter, more apparent. It is not possible for the ego to take over for long when the core of us - the universe - outshines the ego. Our universal glow - intelligence knows better. The ego dissolves. At times, I've been a little turned off by the cultish attitude that the Anusara method seems to have, but I am finding that it is beautifully creative. Creativity is the result of freedom. The principles of the Anusara method give the practitioner freedom. I have felt it and seen it over and over again. The method connects the universe to the body. We can access freedom through our bodies - our minds will inevitably become free too. I know this may sound crazy, but this method truely is capable of greatly increasing human awareness and consciousness. We have bodies that were designed with nature. So, this is a key for us. It's super exciting! There are universal principles of alignment in Anusara that are basically instructions on aligning our bodies. It is so much easier to meditate - empty the mind and become free! - when our spines are aligned. I am not saying at all that it is not possible to meditate without a straight spine. Anybody can meditate. Our spine is like our universal story - evolution. Our chakras align with the spine. The basic chakras define our elemental stages of evolution. When we get up to the heart, we are approaching love - true, pure love. Our hearts want to be wide open, but this is not possible until we have the lower parts of the spine aligned. Don't ignore pain anymore. This is our guide to unraveling our bodily story, the heaviness in our lives. Why continue carrying this pain? We don't have time for this. More next time.