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The Purna Yoga Foundation | |
The PY Foundation is a non-profit organization created to spread Purna Yoga Meditation world- wide, by teaching the Meditation Snacks to a diverse population.
We are cultivating a harmonious world, one student as a time.
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Greetings!
 Love is in the air! Happy (belated) Valentine's Day - an entire day dedicated to the experience of love! We therefore dedicate this issue to love - some inspiring words and some tough(ish) love! This month we also honor The Mother of Pondicherry, one of our Spiritual teachers, for her birthday was on Monday. Here is one of our favorite teachings by her on the subject of love: The Rungs of Love
At first one loves only when one is loved. Next, one loves spontaneously but one wants to be loved in return. Then, one loves even if one is not loved but one still wants one's love to be accepted. And finally, one loves purely and simply without any other need or joy than that of loving. In Love and Light, Aadil and Savitri |
| What is Love? | | 
Love is the essential force that drives the universe. Love, as we understand it in Purna Yoga, is the process of becoming one. (In ancient Sanskrit, the closest word to love is the word for union,
"yuj," from which the word yoga comes.) When I love myself, I am one with my Spirit. Don't confuse this with hedonistic, or egoistic, love for the self. I feel love to the same degree that I feel my mind, body, and emotions uniting with the Light that is my source. When that which is manifested unites with that which is the Creator of the manifestation, there is union, which, in yoga, we call Love. |
| Love and Need | | |
 I cannot have a relationship with someone else that is better than the relationship I have with myself. It is impossible. The love I have for myself will be the dictator of all I bring into my life. If I feel I am missing something in my life, it is easier to think that another person can fill that void and bring to me that which I lack. When I have that need, and connect with another to fill it, I build a dependency, and when I have a dependency, I have bound that other person to me in energetic chains. This is not love, since love is about freedom, not bondage.
This is really a revolutionary idea, that love and need do not go together! Look around - so many of the images of romantic love are built on the idea of need: "You complete me," or "Like the flower needs the rain, you know I need you." But the truth is if I am in need, then I am not able to make a clean choice. That's why we always say to eat a meal before you go grocery shopping! If you are hungry, you will be controlled by the desperate desire for food - without discernment. The same applies to relationships: our choice of a partner is too often controlled by our fear of lack.
When I work on knowing myself, loving myself, and keeping my awareness on what is going on inside, then I attract that which will move me closer to my Soul, to my Light, and to The Divine in me. Then I am practicing the yoga of relationships, where one whole plus another whole equals something much greater than two!
(To learn more, purchase Aadil's audio class, Relationship Secrets and Surprises, from the Purna Yoga Media Store.) |
| Purna Yoga in Hawai'i | | |
 Aloha, from Jennifer Weinert!
I am a Certified Purna Yoga Instructor and the owner of Hilo Yoga, a Purna Yoga studio on the east side of the Big Island. My studio is above a detached garage, with ocean views from the front (the whales are jumping today!) and glorious views of Mauna Kea (snow-capped today!). With average daytime temperatures of 78 degrees there is no need for heat or air-conditioning. My studio is fully equipped from wall ropes to eyebags.
 I offer weekly classes and privates and once a month, I host a special class in which the students' tuition goes to support a family in Pondicherry, India. I'm teaching my second 200 hour Teacher Training and love every minute of it. Aadil and Savitri (when she can) visit Hawaii 2-3 times a year, and their presence is very much felt here as our beloved teachers and ohana (family).
Whether I am guiding a meditation, sharing philosophy or teaching the basics, I can feel the lineage flow through me. I gratefully and joyfully feel my connection to Purna Yoga Centers home across the ocean in Bellevue. ~ Light of Aloha ~
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| New from Aadil - Online Classes Anytime! | | |
Enjoy audio and video classes available for instant download at the Purna Yoga Media Store. We just added these classes this week (and there are 26 other classes to choose from):
© Relationship Secrets and Surprises - one of Aadil's best classes ever! Gives essential tips for all relationships, with others, ideas, things, stressing the importance of honesty, integrity, listening and awareness. (MP3 audio)
© Therapeutic Uses of the Three-Minute Egg: Lower Back Pain - 35 minutes on using Aadil's new favorite prop for the hard-to-reach stretches to relieve back pain. (Video) |
| Save the Date! 5-day Immersion with Aadil | | |
June 8-12, 2011 at Purna Yoga Centers in Bellevue, WA
 We are resisting the urge to design a topic for this workshop because Aadil wants to keep this special immersion fresh, spontaneous, and extremely relevant to those attending. Trust that these 5 days will joyfully give you exactly what you came for - or at least what you need (even if you didn't know it!). Aadil is a true master at intuiting the energy, moods and needs within a group; with humor, wit and compassion he serves just the right ingredients for a deliciously transformative experience. Those of you who take class with Aadil know that his spontaneous teaching is some of his best!
See workshop times
Payment plans are available. To register, call 452-746-7476 |
| Loving Our Students | | | From the acclaimed book, Fire of Love,
by Aadil Palkhivala 
A great teacher is impelled by a profound love for students. When I really love my students, I want them to fulfill their own destiny, I want them to find their own wisdom, I want them to feel peace, not because it glorifies me but simply because I love them. This means entering their world, caring about them, putting aside my agenda for theirs, and helping them embody their particular dharma.
Love is a function of unity. When we feel united with our students, we feel what our students feel. The challenge is to become one with them, yet remain separate. As a teacher, I must feel my student's pain without being drained, feel his grief without being sad, feel her experience of separation from dharma without separating from my own. Only with love can I truly help them overcome grief, pain, and separation from dharma.
Some styles of yoga are extremely regimented, encouraging practitioners to be obedient to the teacher's authority, while others are loosey-goosey, encouraging practitioners to just feel and let the body find the pose. To love our students is to strike the elusive balance between too much guidance and too little. Just as it is not love to dominate students and make them practice exactly like their teacher, so it is also not loving to be permissive and free, allowing students to do whatever they like, with no sense of order. This shuns responsibility. Freedom has to be within a structure. When I teach yoga teachers specific instructions that they can use in classes, I ask them to voice these instructions in their own words. Within the boundaries of clarity, teachers should be autonomous and creative.
Love for our students does not mean showering them with kindness and praise. Sometimes love is telling students a challenging truth, being honest about what they need to work on in order to grow. Remember the old saying: Love is truth and truth is love.
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