Mysore Yoga Wellington

Mysore Yoga Wellington Traditional Mysore style Ashtanga Yoga in the heart of Wellington, New Zealand, with Stewart Cameron

Traditional Mysore style Ashtanga Yoga in the heart of Wellington, New Zealand, with Stewart Cameron Harris Authorised Level Two by KPJAYI.

❤️THE ART OF EFFORT, AND THE CULTIVATION OF GOODNESS🕉️ ❤️努力の技術と善の育成🕉️Read online: https://mysorewellington.yoga/articles...
24/04/2024

❤️THE ART OF EFFORT, AND THE CULTIVATION OF GOODNESS🕉️
❤️努力の技術と善の育成🕉️

Read online: https://mysorewellington.yoga/articles/2024/4/24/the-art-of-effort-and-the-cultivation-of-goodness-

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I really want to share with you about something that is profoundly important for your practice, and your life… effort.

We give constant effort all the time as we live our lives, and as Ashtanga practitioners I am confident we can say that you give more effort than most 😇

It is therefore extremely important to be aware of the quality of the effort that we are generating, and that it brings us the results that we truly wish for.

Patanjali tells us repeatedly about the need for practice and exertion. ‘Tapas’ is the act of making these efforts to generate the ‘inner fire’ of purification. Our asana practice is tapas, as is pranayama, and meditation.

Tapas take on many forms through different traditions, for example in Japan there is a ritual of standing under a cold waterfall ‘misogi’, and the native American Indians have a practice of sitting in a hot teepee, ‘sweat lodge’.

So we can be certain that this consistent and strong effort is of great importance. Then how do we best cultivate and utilise this force?

Patanjali also tells us that -

“By relaxation of effort and meditation on the infinite, asanas are perfected.” ch. 2, v. 47

Just as the Buddha famously shares -

"Just as a string that's too tight will snap, and one that's too loose won't play, so too must you find the middle way."

This ‘balanced effort’ is very helpful for us to remember, and is an art to apply and master.

But, we can go quite a bit deeper…

What is the goal of our efforts?

In yoga we learn that we are governed by three ‘gunas’, that is, three qualities or attributes. They are rajas, tamas, and sattva.

Rajas refers to our mode of being when we are ambitious, when we are giving effort with too much force. Craving.

Tamas refers to our mode of being when we feel heavy, lethargic, tired, lazy. Aversion.

Sattva refers to our mode of being when we are in balance, harmony, aware, focussed, flowing, energised. Goodness.

As regular yoga practitioners with our heavy days, and the exciting days pushing into that next asana, we know these gunas very well. And we also know from our own experience that our practice brings us more into sattva, the sattvic state. This is true from moment to moment progressing through a practice, and it is also true from month to month, and year to year… looking back I have no doubt that you will recognise in yourself how yoga has influenced your life to be more in sattvic harmony, more in a mode of goodness.

Yoga theory tells us exactly this, that this is the purpose of our practice- to decrease the rajas and tamas, and to cultivate more sattva. We could also express this by simply saying that we suffer less.

As we experience ourselves in greater goodness this naturally radiates out through our lives, through our relationships. We act with greater kindness and generosity, and in turn the happiness that we share outwardly grows internally, spiraling us up to higher and higher states of well being.

The Buddha expresses this with great clarity, advising us to generate tremendous effort to develop ‘wholesome mental states’ -

“And what, monks, is Right Effort? Here, monks, a monk generates the will to prevent the arising of unarisen evil unwholesome mental states; he makes strong effort, stirs up his energy, applies his mind to it and strives. To eradicate those evil unwholesome mental states that have arisen in him, he generates the will, makes strong effort, stirs up his energy, applies his mind to it and strives. To develop wholesome mental states that have not yet arisen in him, he generates will, makes strong effort, stirs up his energy, applies his mind to it and strives. To maintain wholesome mental stats that have arisen in him, not to let them fade away, to multiply them and bring them to full maturity and development, he generates will, makes strong effort, stirs up his energy, applies his mind to it and strives. This, monks, is called Right Effort.”

I find this to be profoundly important to keep in our awareness, that as we work with the powerful tools of our breath and asana, the goal is not the asana in and of themselves, but the state of awareness they facilitate within us.

Ashtanga Yoga is not what it looks like ❤️



あなたの練習と、そして人生にとって非常に重要なことを共有したいと思います… 努力です。

私たちは日常生活を送る中で常に努力していますし、アシュタンガの実践者として、私たちが他の多くの人よりも努力をしていると確信しています😇

したがって、私たちが生み出している努力の質を意識し、本当に望む結果をもたらすことが極めて重要です。

パタンジャリは、練習と努力の必要性について何度も教えています。「ターパス」は、浄化の

「内なる火」を生成するためのこれらの努力を行う行為です。アーサナの実践はターパスであり、プラーナーヤーマや瞑想も同様です。

ターパスは、異なる伝統を通じてさまざまな形を取ります。たとえば、日本には冷たい滝の下に立つ儀式「禊(みそぎ)」があり、ネイティブアメリカンインディアンには熱いティーピーの中に座る練習「スウェットロッジ」があります。

したがって、この一貫した強力な努力が非常に重要であることは間違いありません。では、この力を最もよく育成して活用するにはどうすればよいでしょうか?

パタンジャリも次のように言っています。

「努力を緩め、無限を瞑想することで、アーサナが完成する」(第2章、第47節)

釈迦の有名な言葉があります -

「弦が引きすぎると切れ、緩すぎると鳴りません。だから中道を見つけなければならない。」

この「バランスのとれた努力」は、私たちにとって、覚えておくと非常に役立つ、応用し、マスターするための芸術です。

しかし、もっと深く掘り下げることができます…

私たちの努力の目的は何でしょうか?

ヨガでは、私たちが三つの「グナ」によって支配されることを学びます。それは、ラジャス、タマス、サットヴァと呼ばれる、三つの質または属性です。

ラジャスは、野心的な状態、あるいはあまりにも力を込めて努力をするときの私たちの状態を指します。渇望。

タマスは、重い、のろい、疲れた、怠惰な状態を指します。嫌悪。

サットヴァは、バランスが取れた、調和、気づき、集中、流れ、活力に満ちた状態を指します。善。

私たちはアシュタンガの日常的なヨガの実践者として、体の重い日もあれば、次の新しいアーサナに挑戦するやる気に満ちた日があるのもよく知っています。そして、私たち自身の経験からも、練習が私たちをサットヴァの状態により近づけることを知っています。これは練習において一瞬一瞬進化していくときもそうですし、月ごとに、年ごとにおいてもそうです…振り返ってみると、ヨガがあなたの人生に影響を与え、サットヴァ的なの調和の状態、より善の状態になったことを認識できるはずです。

ヨガ理論はまさにこれを教えています。これが私たちの練習の目的であり、ラジャスとタマスを減少させ、より多くのサットヴァを培うことです。単純に言うと、苦しむことが減るのです。

私たちがより大きな善を経験するにつれて、それは自然と私たちの人生や人間関係に輝きを与えます。私たちはより大きな親切心と寛容心で行動し、その結果、外の世界と共有する幸福は自身の内で成長し、私たちをますます高い幸福の状態のスパイラルへと導きます。

釈迦は、素晴らしい明晰さをもって、私たちに「健全な精神状態」を養うために莫大な努力を払うよう忠告しています。

「僧侶たちよ、では正しい努力とは何か。ここで、僧侶は、まだ表面化していない邪悪で不健全な精神状態の発生を防ぐ意志をもって、強力な努力をし、そのエネルギーをかき立て、それに心を集中し、努力する。彼に現れた邪悪で不健全な精神状態を根絶するために、彼は意志をもって、強力な努力をし、そのエネルギーをかき立て、それに心を集中し、努力する。彼にまだ現れていない善良で健全な精神状態を発展させるために、彼は意志を生み出し、強力な努力をし、そのエネルギーをかき立て、それに心を集中し、努力する。彼に現れている善良で健全な精神状態を維持し、それを消えさせずに、それを増やし、完全に成熟させ、発展させるために、彼は意志をもって、強力な努力をし、そのエネルギーをかき立て、それに心を集中し、努力します。僧侶たちよ、これが正しい努力と呼ばれるものです。」

私たちが呼吸とアーサナの強力なツールを使っているとき、目標はアーサナそのものではなく、私たちの内部で促進される意識の状態であることを心に留めておくことが、非常に大切です。

アシュタンガヨガは見たままではありません❤️

#アシュタンガヨガは見たままではありません

Stewart Cameron Harris

Super excited to be in Wellington with TUSK Yoga later this month🥰Please join us if you can✨🙏🏻
09/01/2023

Super excited to be in Wellington with TUSK Yoga later this month🥰

Please join us if you can✨🙏🏻

Maha Sādhana
with Stewart Cameron Harris
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th January
9:30am-12pm @ TUSK Yoga

Maha = Great
Sādhana = Practice / Process

The Great Practice is the combining of asana, pranayama, meditation, and spiritual enquiry.

Join Stewart for a two day inner journey to discover your deeper self through simple and profoundly powerful yogic techniques.

Both Saturday and Sunday we will begin with an Ashtanga yoga practice appropriate for you, all levels welcome.

Then on Saturday we will have an Introductory pranayama session, again suitable for all levels.

We will explore the full yogic breath, and the fundamental yoga pranayamas.

You will receive the tools and guidance so you will be able to establish yourself in a pranayama practice appropriate for you.

On Sunday following Ashtanga and pranayama practice we will have morning tea and a talk with Q&A-

In yoga it is said that having a clear and balanced mind is our natural state, and practice helps us to return there. If this is true why do we experience continued imbalances, despite regular yoga practice?

In this discussion we will explore the nature of the mind and discover the true cause of its fluctuations. You will gain insights that will help you create and maintain a clear and balanced mind, and how to quickly recover when your mind has become unbalanced.

Contact Stephanie :- tusk@tuskyoga.co.nz to book

Saturday classes started again- now at TUSK!!  Posted  •  TUSK NEW - we're pleased to announce Mysore Ashtanga classes h...
23/06/2020

Saturday classes started again- now at TUSK!! Posted • TUSK NEW - we're pleased to announce Mysore Ashtanga classes have begun at our urban oasis, every Saturday 9am -11am “Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn’t have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can’t practice yoga.” A little ABOUT ASHTANGA:- A dynamic style of yoga that links a sequence of postures in a continuous flow with the rhythm of the breath.

It is proven to be safe, highly effective and transformational. Throughout the practice a deep internal heat is created that energizes, purifies, and strengthens the entire energetic and physical system.

A calm focussed mind, light, strong and soft body rapidly develop, providing the optimal conditions for experiencing the self beyond the mind and body.

This SELF-PRACTICE will be run under the expert eye-dance of Stewart Cameron. Who brings a wealth of over 20 years valuable experience to our space.

Stewart has been one of TUSK’s founder Stephanie’s own teachers. Steph is a RYT Level 1 Ashtanga teacher herself.

More about Stewart www.mysorewellington.yoga/stewartcameronharris
TUSK LEARNING TRADITION

Hey Ashtangis✨ Looking forward to a Led Primary with Sharath on Zoom this Saturday- 11am NZ time & 8am Japan time🌟 For r...
22/04/2020

Hey Ashtangis✨ Looking forward to a Led Primary with Sharath on Zoom this Saturday- 11am NZ time & 8am Japan time🌟 For registration see 🕉🙏🏼
We are so excited to announce Paramaguru Sharath Jois is coming to your home, to support your practice, give your life inspiration and
kindness to help students of Ashtanga Yoga during difficult times. Many of us miss our teacher, stuck at home struggling in motivation with our yoga practice amongst many other adversities as a result of the covid crisis and lockdown frustration. Join Paramaguru Sharath Jois & Ashtanga students from around the world for a historical uplifting moment where together we create positivity and unity.
After registration you will be sent a link to participate. Your email used during registration will be required to join.
Online led class & conference will take place on Zoom. This event is for existing practitioners of Ashtanga Yoga. Conference will be directly after the led session. We suggest you make sure your speaker is connected and available for the duration of this event. Ensure your speaker is not connected by bluetooth to another device. Please log into the event 10-15mins before to familiarise yourself and hear the welcome note by the host. Your screen will be set to "Speaker View” to have a full view of him as he counts and conducts conference, please note you will not be seen or heard to facilitate a more stable connection and accommodate more students. If there is time for Q&A, your questions can be submitted by chat. For more details and instructions to prepare for joining please visit
www.mysoreroom.com
In support of the citizens of India during the covid crisis.🙏 @ Mysore Yoga Wellington

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