Sunday at Noon ~ Level One Hatha Yoga

5.15.11  Satchidananda
at Starseed Yoga and Wellness of Montclair, NJ

    "Stay away from anything that will disturb you.  All Yoga practices deal with the mind.  It is the mind that is creating all your troubles.  You can train it and use it to your own higher advantage - that is why it was given to you.  And you can achieve this by the practice of Yoga anywhere and everywhere.  Ultimately, you must find that peace everywhere.  You don't have to talk about it; just do it, live it.  The real Sat-Chid-Ananda exists within every human being.  The goal is to realize that Self, realize that peace, joy, and love; realize that light - all different names and forms for the same experience."
    "All I teach is that you learn to be selfless.  Your life can be a beautiful fruit for all of humanity to enjoy.  You can retain the God who is already in you as the form of peace.  And when you shine with peace, you expose to that light not only yourself, but other people as well.  Let people see something beautiful in you, something genuine in you.  Let God be born in you."
- H.H. Sri Swami Satchidananda To Know Your Self p. 293

Satchidananda is the nature of our soul, Sat - eternal, Chid - knowledge, Ananda - blissful. 

Sequence:  Virasana (hero's pose) for centering and reading, Baddhanguliyasana (bound hands pose), Gomukasana (cow face pose) prep, Urdhva Hastasana (upward facing palms pose), table, cat/cow, table balance, Balasana (child's pose), Adho Mukha Svanasana (downward facing dog).  Vinyasa (moving with the breath) of three poses 3x:  child, table, dog.  Balasana > Ashtangasana (eight pointed pose) 3x, Uttanasana (standing forward bend), Tadasana (mountain pose), Surya Namaskara (sun salutations) 4x:  Tadasana, Urdhva Hastasana, slight backbend, Uttanasana, lunge, Adho Mukha Svanasana, Ashtangasana, Bhujangasana, and reverse to stand.  Virahadrasana II (warrior II), Trikonasana (triangle pose), Prasarita Padottanasana (wide legged standing forward bend), wide Uttanasana, Malasana (squat pose), Adho Mukha Svanasana, pigeon, Balasana, Dandasana (staff pose), Paschimottanasana (west back stretch), Upavista Konasana (wide legged seated forward bend), Savasana (corpse pose) with guided relaxation.  Played two crystal chakra singing bowls coming out of Savasana:   C - root - survival and E - solar plexus - how we present ourselves to the world, our personal power.

"All I teach is that you learn to be selfless. Your life can be a beautiful fruit for all of humanity to enjoy. You can retain the God who is already in you as the form of peace. And when you shine with peace, you expose to that light not only yourself, but other people as well. Let people see something beautiful in you, something genuine in you. Let God be born in you."
- H.H. Sri Swami Satchidananda To Know Your Self p. 293

Closing Peace Chants:
Asaato Maa Sad Gamaya Tamaso Maa Jyotir Gamaya Mrityor Maa Amritam Gamaya
Lead us from unreal to Real.  Lead us from darkness to the Light.  Lead us from the fear of death to the knowledge of Immortality.
OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
Lokaah Samastaah Sukhino Bhavantu
May the entire universe be filled with Peace and Joy, Love and Light
Namaste.