Comments on: Living Unplugged http://www.charlestonyogi.com/509/living-unplugged/ Your resource to the yoga community in the Lowcountry - Yoga Schedules and Charleston Yoga Studios Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:03:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rachel Glowacki http://www.charlestonyogi.com/509/living-unplugged/#comment-40 Rachel Glowacki Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:52 +0000 http://www.charlestonyogi.com/?p=509#comment-40 Amen to that! I just finished a 15 page article for Holy Yoga how the Eight Limbs parallel the Bible. My path of yoga is with Jesus at the heart center and how this ancient and sacred practice can lead one to a deeper connection with our beloved Creator. Yoga has become a prayerful expression with my whole being and so grateful that not only do I experience it but also get so share and teach it as well. I so look forward in reading your article and see it through your lenses. We all have our own set in which we filter these teachings. Have the best day ever. : ) Amen to that! I just finished a 15 page article for Holy Yoga how the Eight Limbs parallel the Bible. My path of yoga is with Jesus at the heart center and how this ancient and sacred practice can lead one to a deeper connection with our beloved Creator. Yoga has become a prayerful expression with my whole being and so grateful that not only do I experience it but also get so share and teach it as well. I so look forward in reading your article and see it through your lenses. We all have our own set in which we filter these teachings. Have the best day ever. : )

]]> By: Mark Knowles http://www.charlestonyogi.com/509/living-unplugged/#comment-39 Mark Knowles Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:32:53 +0000 http://www.charlestonyogi.com/?p=509#comment-39 Likewise. Funny you should mention it.... Look out for my article. It is nice to speak with others who appreciate the works of Master Patanjali. It is after all that which all Yoga must be based upon. Mark Likewise. Funny you should mention it….
Look out for my article. It is nice to speak with others who appreciate the works of Master Patanjali. It is after all that which all Yoga must be based upon.
Mark

]]> By: Rachel Glowacki http://www.charlestonyogi.com/509/living-unplugged/#comment-38 Rachel Glowacki Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:01:50 +0000 http://www.charlestonyogi.com/?p=509#comment-38 So true and very heartfelt Mark. Thank you for bringing to light that the only way to make progress is starting within the attitude or judgments of the heart by not harming ourselves or others. Yes, it is true according to the SUtras that one must start with Yama and then so forth, and I believe in that orderly process it will lead one to wellness or wholeness. I think that within the limbs, one can experience all of them at one time, so that they are not separate. You are right on to point out they have order and perhaps this will inspire your next post? : ) I personally have experienced each limb as a whole, glimpses and moments if you will, by no means have attained or mastered them. They are all daily invitations to look at oneself and requires effort and surrender. So I think it is both , but the first step of anything is accepting with gentleness. I love that we can dialogue and share the beautiful gifts that yoga offers, and honor all paths/styles/interpretations as well,it will take us one step closer to oneness. And I believe that we can agree to disagree too with light and love. I look forward in hearing more of your thoughts on this blog. Peace and Health-Rachel : ) So true and very heartfelt Mark. Thank you for bringing to light that the only way to make progress is starting within the attitude or judgments of the heart by not harming ourselves or others. Yes, it is true according to the SUtras that one must start with Yama and then so forth, and I believe in that orderly process it will lead one to wellness or wholeness. I think that within the limbs, one can experience all of them at one time, so that they are not separate. You are right on to point out they have order and perhaps this will inspire your next post? : ) I personally have experienced each limb as a whole, glimpses and moments if you will, by no means have attained or mastered them. They are all daily invitations to look at oneself and requires effort and surrender. So I think it is both , but the first step of anything is accepting with gentleness. I love that we can dialogue and share the beautiful gifts that yoga offers, and honor all paths/styles/interpretations as well,it will take us one step closer to oneness. And I believe that we can agree to disagree too with light and love. I look forward in hearing more of your thoughts on this blog. Peace and Health-Rachel : )

]]> By: Mark Knowles http://www.charlestonyogi.com/509/living-unplugged/#comment-37 Mark Knowles Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:33:01 +0000 http://www.charlestonyogi.com/?p=509#comment-37 Beautiful. It's always amazed me how 12 Step programs mirror Master Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. They both end in a spiritual awakening too! Really good article Rachel. I do however beg to differ on "...yoga sutras as a moral code that leads to wellness or wholeness." I understood Maharṣi Patañjali Yoga Sūtra to be a scripture which discusses overcoming the mental obstacles to enlightenment, contained in these is the moral code. Yama and Niyama, महाव्रतम् mahāvrtam, or Great Vows as explained in YS II.31. I also think it's important to note that the order is very important. Specifically, one must practice Yama, then Niyama and so forth. For example, one cannot move towards Yoga and realization of Oneness, or Wholeness (Samādhi), if one is eating others, or enslaving others. Thus the first vrtam or vow is अहिम्सा ahimsā. We can practice Asana, hold our breath, swallow cloths, pour water up our noses नियमाः niyamāḥ, concentrate and meditate, but if our foundational believe is seperateness, how can we make progress? What do you think? Beautiful. It’s always amazed me how 12 Step programs mirror Master Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. They both end in a spiritual awakening too! Really good article Rachel. I do however beg to differ on “…yoga sutras as a moral code that leads to wellness or wholeness.”
I understood Maharṣi Patañjali Yoga Sūtra to be a scripture which discusses overcoming the mental obstacles to enlightenment, contained in these is the moral code. Yama and Niyama, महाव्रतम् mahāvrtam, or Great Vows as explained in YS II.31. I also think it’s important to note that the order is very important. Specifically, one must practice Yama, then Niyama and so forth. For example, one cannot move towards Yoga and realization of Oneness, or Wholeness (Samādhi), if one is eating others, or enslaving others. Thus the first vrtam or vow is अहिम्सा ahimsā. We can practice Asana, hold our breath, swallow cloths, pour water up our noses नियमाः niyamāḥ, concentrate and meditate, but if our foundational believe is seperateness, how can we make progress?
What do you think?

]]> By: Rachel Glowacki http://www.charlestonyogi.com/509/living-unplugged/#comment-36 Rachel Glowacki Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:15:22 +0000 http://www.charlestonyogi.com/?p=509#comment-36 Namaste Mark, Thank you for asking me to clarify, forgive me readers for assuming that you already know what “The Eight Fold Path” is! Yes, that is what I was referring to… Ashtanga literally translates “eight limbs.” (astha=eight, anga=limb). The yoga sutras have been threaded by sage Patanjali Maharishi as the first scripture to yogic philosophy written and explained to students dating back between 220 B.C and 200 A.D. Patanjali blessed us with the yoga sutras as a moral code that leads to wellness or wholeness. The eight limbs branch off into ethical laws (Yamas), spiritual oberservances (Niyamas), physical disciplines (Asanas), breath control (Pranayama), internal awareness (Pratyahara), concentration (Dharana), meditation(Dhyana), and transcendence(Samadhi). The Eight Limbs like the 12 step program for “AA” guide a person along to wellness, a quality or state of well being in mind and body. Well meaning whole or peace within. The Eight Limbs on the other hand hinge upon another to where all of them can be experienced at one time, less like a ladder of step by step, but more of a integrated whole, like the movement of our limbs. The arm, shoulder, socket, elbow, wrist and hand, all hinge upon another and work together as the whole arm. I listed the “AA” steps below and there we will find that both paths intention is to live with an awakened heart. And that is why we find ourselves on our mats, to experience more peace and joy. : ) AA Steps 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Namaste Mark,

Thank you for asking me to clarify, forgive me readers for assuming that you already know what “The Eight Fold Path” is! Yes, that is what I was referring to…
Ashtanga literally translates “eight limbs.” (astha=eight, anga=limb). The yoga sutras have been threaded by sage Patanjali Maharishi as the first scripture to yogic philosophy written and explained to students dating back between 220 B.C and 200 A.D.

Patanjali blessed us with the yoga sutras as a moral code that leads to wellness or wholeness. The eight limbs branch off into ethical laws (Yamas), spiritual oberservances (Niyamas), physical disciplines (Asanas), breath control (Pranayama), internal awareness (Pratyahara), concentration (Dharana), meditation(Dhyana), and transcendence(Samadhi).

The Eight Limbs like the 12 step program for “AA” guide a person along to wellness, a quality or state of well being in mind and body. Well meaning whole or peace within. The Eight Limbs on the other hand hinge upon another to where all of them can be experienced at one time, less like a ladder of step by step, but more of a integrated whole, like the movement of our limbs. The arm, shoulder, socket, elbow, wrist and hand, all hinge upon another and work together as the whole arm. I listed the “AA” steps below and there we will find that both paths intention is to live with an awakened heart. And that is why we find ourselves on our mats, to experience more peace and joy. : )

AA Steps

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

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