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10/06/2024

Hvis du har prøvd yoga, men ikke likte det, kan du prøve en annen klasse med en annen lærer. Hver lærer har sin egen tilnærming, og noen typer praksis vil passe bedre for deg enn andre. I yoga er det ikke én praksis som passer alle, den må tilpasses deg!

Jeg anbefaler å starte i en liten, intim klasse der læreren kan ta hensyn til dine individuelle behov.

Yoga, stillinger, pusteøvelser og meditasjon er noen av de mest kraftfulle måtene å optimalisere din mentale og fysiske helse på. Også vitenskapen støtter dette.

«Det finnes en riktig yoga for alle», sier min kjære venn og lærer Mark Whitwell

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/yoga-for-better-mental-health

https://www.health.harvard.edu/promotions/harvard-health-publications/intermediate-yoga

Thanks for the inspiration .halme

04/06/2024

Krishnamacharya, in the center of this image is in the GuruParampara, the lineage of 10th Century Ramanujacharya, and so are you if you have any connection to the yoga of modern times. Because Krishnamacharya is the founder of modern yoga, the teacher of the teachers, the grandfather of yoga who made this all happen. It is best not to ignore what he actually taught, because the principles that he brought forth from the great tradition empower your practice, making Yoga entirely your own, efficient, powerful, and safe.
Ramanuja in the 10th century declared that yoga was necessary to actualize the realization of Vedanta… that there is only God. That there is nothing but God. Only. Reality only. To imagine anything else is delusional.. that delusion is “the world”.

That is why Krishnamacharya worked so hard for Yoga. The Acharya knows the world is a dream, but must stay in it to do the work of transmission and transformation.

19/02/2024

Thank you for the days… Thank you for the days…
TKV Desikachar. ❤️🙏

Meditation has its origins in the religion of Buddhism. It is now sold as a hopeful product in non religious derivatives such as mindfulness. Yet it is still the practice of religious dissociation from tangible life.

The differentiation between yoga and popular forms of meditation is…
yoga is relationship, the participation in the intrinsic union of all tangible & intangible conditions of existence. This is the meditation of yoga. To merge with the object. Intimacy!
Meditation without yoga is the attempt to reside as the concept of inwardness, awareness to all conditions. To observe the object only. Therefore inherently separate from the object.

However the words of Krishnamacharya, “the Buddha was a Yogi”. “Meditation should not be separated from Yoga”.

Gautama appeared in Yoga culture. He wandered through planes of the Ganga. After his princely life he took on that learning & practice. Hundreds of years later his Yoga realization & utterances were turned into a religion & priestly hierarchy of all male (at first) dropouts from society. Their practice was meditation dissociated from the Yôga context & cause. In fact a life of Yôga was the practical means by which real meditation can naturally arise as a siddhi gift : sahaj samadhi.

The development of the written word enabled Oshaka the Great 304 – 232 BC, Emperor of the Maurya Empire to create a doctrine & distribute Buddhism around his Asian kingdom as a unifying mechanism of public control. Just as Rome & the later colonial powers used Christ for the same purpose. The practice of meditation & its doctrinal theology was religion wielded by political power. Meditation was forced on the people.

Meditation practiced without its Yôga origins, context & cause is dissociating. It is part of the world negative, Earth negative civilization that world religions have created. Despite all of our saints saviors, despite all the worthy intentions & fervor of the religious people humanity has not been saved. We are still in a mess. Tech is not going to save us either in the hands of the few non democratic capitalist billionaires who control it. Religion is doing no better.

19/02/2024

Yoga og meditasjon er en gave 🙏🙇‍♂️

Ongoing from yesterday..

Yoga meditation is not just to observe, or witness only the object of perception. Yoga meditation is to merge with the object. Then we know the object. In knowing the object we know the “knower” of the object… the one who “sees”, the Self, Life itself. Consciousness itself. The principle of awareness.
Emphatically meditation is relationship… that is intimacy with all tangible (and therefore intangible) conditions. It is to “merge with the object” of perception. When that merge is complete it is called samadhi… complete & utter singularity or oneness with the object.
It could be with the sun, moon, your mother, father, baby, a river, mountain, ocean, tree, animal, your teacher, your guru, your deity, your spouse etc. etc.
an important thing is that the object of your merging must be chosen. That is: it is your own natural movement or “chosen direction”. Your teacher can help you negotiate what that may be for you if there is any uncertainty.
The ultimate recognition is that there is not two things in this world. There is only one thing. You, me & the trees are happening in the one reality. For example, you & the sun are not two things. There is only one thing.
Intrinsically the union that we seek has already happened. In our natural state there is no separation. The unity is already there. Here. Life is unity. We are merely participating in what is already here.
Meditation is participation in the tangible objects, starting with the body, the breath, & the body’s intrinsic relationship to its own context, in which it lives & breathes & depends upon. in this way, you can see that meditation is asana & pranayama & relationship of every kind. Meditation is asana, pranayama, dhyana ,(quietly abiding in the union) is a seamless process of intimacy with life as it actually is.

The conventional meditation of religion that has become “mindfulness” is to merely witness the object. To try to find something that is called inwardness or witness consciousness. But there is no such “thing”as consciousness Consciousness is not a separate thing from perception and the object

Consciousness is realized only in relationship
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02/09/2023

In all honesty, in all this talk of Kundalini, this technique that technique, this style that style, in the branding and commodification of Yôga…

it should not be forgotten…

that deep in the wisdom of Yôga it is well understood that the transmission / activation / and realization of the state of Yôga / or steady kundalini awaking comes from no technique or effort. But comes from being with / and loving the company of a friend who is in n the state of Yôga. This asana is call d Upasana… which means sitting closely to the one who is shining. In relationship With. No more than a friend / no less than a friend. In this relationship all techniques spontaneously happen. All Pranas flow in their own intelligence, movement and beauty. It is freely given.

This friendship is the only “technique” of Yôga. It is beyond all concepts, all knowledge all thought. It is the power of the cosmos, life perfectly expressing itself through you and me and the trees. It is the hope for humanity.

19/07/2023

Hva er yoga med hjertet?

Det er frihet i helt vanlige forhold. Om ikke friheten kommer så kan en se på yogaen og undersøke hva som har blitt endret eller mangler.

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