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Purna Yoga teaches the mind, the body and the emotions how to be at home with the spirit.

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Precision with Feeling
The Role of the Mind
The Gifts of Responsibility
The Need for Holisitc Medicine
Mirra Recommends Movies
News from Yoga Centers, The Home of Purna Yoga
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June 2008
Dear students and friends on the path of yoga, Mirra and Aadil, the owners of Yoga Centers
 
This June marks the beginning of the month-long 200-hour Purna Yoga teacher training at Yoga Centers. We welcome the budding teachers during this, the middle month of the year, the month with the most light.
 
In the Light of Purna Yoga,
Mirra and Aadil
Founders of Purna Yoga
 
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Asana and Pranayama
 Precision with Feeling
Asana June 2008
 
Generally speaking there are two kinds of asana practice:  precise alignment-based asana and the kind that is not concerned with alignment, and is just concerned with feeling. If you are feeling your body without bringing Light into it, you are probably just doing floppy, ineffective yoga. However, if you only focus on precise alignment and do not bring Light into your body, the practice is also imbalanced and ineffective.  So, doing asana in Purna Yoga involves more than feeling, and more than alignment - it requires both simultaneously.  When you bring Light into your body, you are aligning your soul with your body.  By focusing on the simple image of Light that knows the truth of everything, and by focusing on the feeling of love that is the highest vibration the body can connect with, you are welcoming your soul into your body with amazing precision. You have integrated precise energetic alignment with precise physical alignment. You've got the whole package. 
 
-Mirra
Meditation
Meditation May 2008 The Role of the Mind

"A problem cannot be solved by the consciousness that created it."
Albert Einstein

Most of the world's problems are created by mental activity that is disconnected from Spirit.  So we cannot solve our problems with more mental activity. Meditations that stay within the mind won't help, nor will meditations that merely quiet the mind. Much more is needed.
 
Some people recognize this situation and try to repress or abandon their mental energy.  That, too, is not our path. Instead, we use this powerful mental energy to help us go toward the Divine - we don't throw it out, we don't push it, we don't fight with it.  We use it. We take the light force that is being generated all the time in the mind, center it, and then give it to the heart.
 
The mind is supposed to be the servant and the heart the master. Right now, it's the other way around.  That is why you have to offer the mind to the heart. Eventually, when you do that enough, your heart will open up. Then a little voice in the heart becomes the master and tells the mind, "This is what we need to do." 
 
-Mirra
Applied Philosophy
 The Gifts of Responsibility 
 
Responsibility is freedom. When I shirk responsibility for my life or I blame someone else for what happens to me, I am a slave to others.  When I take full responsibility, I accept that my life as it is now is the sum total of my past words, thoughts, and actions. I have been the creator of this moment. Now, accepting responsibility, I can create my future too.
 
-Aadil
Nutrition and Lifestyle
 The Need for Holisitc Medicine  Nutrition May 2008
 
The Journal of American Medical Association reported that the third leading cause of death in the U.S. today - killing a quarter of a million people each year - is iatrogenics, doctor-caused death.  Modern medicine focuses on treating symptoms with drugs, and tries to alleviate toxic side effects with more drugs, which in turn, have other side effects.
 
Holistic medicine addresses the cause of the problem and not the symptoms. More than ever, it's time is obviously now. 
 
-Aadil
Mirra Recommends Movies
 The Illusionist Movie May 2008

A fascinating story that stretches the mind, twisting and turning it along the way.  (PG-13)
News from Yoga Centers
Purna Yoga Immersion with Aadil, Mirra, and Senior Purna Yoga Instructors 
Monday, July 28 - Saturday August 2, 2008
 
Enjoy this rare opportunity to spend six days immersed in the whole of yoga.  Take your yoga deeper into your life and experience your inner energy, peace, and joy that Purna Yoga inspires.  You will refine your asana in standing poses, inversions, twists, backbends, frontbends, and restoratives.  You will also learn classic Purna Yoga sequences, basic pranayama, Purna Yoga Meditation to focus the mind and open your heart, yoga anatomy, nutrition, and applied yogic philosophy.  The immersion inspires personal growth and transformation as you become more conscious of the subtle and deeper aspects at play in your life.  A valuable manual will be given to each participant, covering sequences, philosophy, meditation, and nutrition.  Aadil brings together some of the finest Purna Yoga teachers to join him in teaching this course. 
Prerequisite:  Minimum of 6 months alignment-based asana.

For more information: http://www.yogacenters.com/intensives.html