Who Are You? (Part I)

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which

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we do not see.

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{Martin Luther King Jr.}

When did you last spend time with yourself?

Just yourself.

When was the last time you heard the sound of silence?

Just your inner silence.

Sound of silence.

Music of monkey mind.

Remember Who You Are.

~ Love & Listen from Yoga Gypsy ~

Go Off The Mark To Find The Mark

Those who never make mistakes lose a great

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many chances to learn something.

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{Dogen Zenji}

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~ Love & Learn from Yoga Gypsy ~

Every Breath You Take

The mind is the king of the senses.

And the breath is the king of the mind.

The nerves become the king of the breath.

{Hatha Yoga Pradipika}

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~ Love & Breath from Yoga Gypsy ~

Little By Little

Take one step at a time.

Don't settle for less.

Just continue to climb.

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~ Love & Letters from Yoga Gypsy ~

Краснода́р

How apt.

Красно means 'red' (or 'beautiful') and дар, 'gift'.

With exactly six years to go until the opening ceremony for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Aleksandr and Denis gifted their way to us as we are in receipt of another red gift in Southeast Asia.

V Bananovo Limonnom Singapure and love life laughing.

To Ivan and Michel, lose a little luggage.

You may find yourselves then.


~ Love & Lost from Yoga Gypsy ~

Saṃskāras

संस्कार

Subtle impressions of one's past thoughts, behaviours and actions causing subconscious tendencies, patterns and habitual conditioning.

As we transit through to a new lunar year, we leave old patterns behind and momentarily enter an in-between space.

Just like the liminal space between an exhalation and an inhalation. This place can be unsettling; it is full of possibilities and choices.

Between these two breaths lies the secret to the world.

"It is not the past or the future, but the present that we should be living in." {Francesca}

Por ti... ¡Francesca!


~ Love & Present from Yoga Gypsy ~

The Whole Of Yin & Yang

To live requires energy and fearlessness, but we are brought up in a pleasure-hunting human race, and pain is something to be afraid of, to be driven away completely, to protect oneself from.

But it is the pain and pleasure - the duality - together that make the whole, the wholeness of life.

The more sensitive you are and the more you live from the depth of your being, the more vulnerable you are to life.

The more sensitive you are and the more capable of loving human beings, the more you will be hurt; there is more sorrow, there is more pain.

Psychological hurts, pain and sorrow accompany the sensitivity, intelligence and love.

Love and sorrow go together.

So, if there is physical or psychological pain, you live with it - not out of despair, not out of self-pity, not out of any weakness.

You live with it because it is part of life, it is an expression of life.

{Vimala Thakar}


~ Love & Life from Yoga Gypsy ~

Who Is The Question

Allow the shaking, don't do it.

Stand silently. Feel it coming and when your body starts a little trembling, help it but don't do it.

Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it, but don't will it.

If you force it, it will become an exercise, a bodily physical exercise.

Then the shaking will be there but just on the surface; it will not penetrate you.

You will remain solid, stone like, rock like within; you will remain a manipulator, the doer, and the body will just be following.

The body is not the question - you are the question.

{Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh}


~ Love & Silence from Yoga Gypsy ~

Thumbs & Toes

We look for some magic solution to make us all better, but none of us really know what we're doing.

And why is that so bad?

That's all we humans can do.

Guess. Try. Hope.

But, Justin, just pray you don't fool yourself into thinking you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit.

The trick is living without an answer.

I think.

{Dr Perry Lyman from "Thumbsucker"}

~ Love & Know from Yoga Gypsy ~

What Is Yoga (Part I)

It's refreshing to meet someone like Saiful. An ordinary person following his dream.

We connect through candour, mostly. Something I find lacking in many Orientals.

"What IS Yoga?", he queried.

Followed by, "It comes from India, right?"

WHAT IS YOGA

The word "Yoga" comes from the Sanskrit word "Yuj" - meaning to yoke, join or unite. This implies integrating all aspects of the individual - body with mind and mind with soul - to achieve a happy, balanced and useful life.

What is commonly referred to as "Yoga" these days is more accurately described by the Sanskrit word "Asana", which refers to the practice of physical postures or poses.

Many people think that Yoga is just stretching.

While stretching is certainly involved, Yoga is really about creating balance in the body through developing both strength and flexibility.

This is done through the performance of poses or postures, each of which has specific physical benefits.

The poses can be done quickly in succession, creating heat in the body through movement or more slowly to increase stamina and perfect the alignment of the pose.

ORIGIN OF YOGA

Yoga's detailed history has many places of obscurity and uncertainty due to its oral transmission of sacred texts and the secretive nature of its teachings.

No one knows exactly when Yoga began, but it certainly predates written history.

We know that the classical techniques of Yoga began more than 5,000 years ago.

Stone carvings depicting figures in Yoga positions have been found in archeological sites in the Indus Valley dating back 5,000 years or more.

In ancient times, the desire for greater personal freedom, health and long life, and heightened self-understanding gave birth to this system which has since spread throughout the world.

This need has since re-emerged in our modern world.

There is a common misconception that Yoga is rooted in Hinduism.

On the contrary, Hinduism's religious structures evolved much later and incorporated some of the practices of Yoga. Other religions and cultures throughout the world have also incorporated practices and ideas related to Yoga.

In fact, in the book "The Yoga of Jesus", Paramahansa Yogananda reveals the hidden Yoga of the Gospels and confirms that Jesus, like other Christian saints, mystics of the East and ancient sages, not only knew Yoga but taught this universal science to his closest disciples.

In the indigenous pre-Polynesian Hawaiian culture, the only law that existed was that "We are One."

This concept of oneness in the Hawaiian culture served as the basis of compassionate living, since it was believed that all beings are interrelated. Anything done to one person is consequently done to the self as well.


~ Love & Oneness from Yoga Gypsy ~