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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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Dear students and friends on the path of yoga,
 It has been a busy month at Purna Yoga Centers as we prepare for the first annual Purna Yoga Teachers' Retreat, starting this Wednesday. Over 60 people are gathering together to renew their certification and their inspiration as Purna Yoga Teachers.
Look for the July issue to be full of photos and video from the retreat, held in the mountain town of Leavenworth, WA. In the meantime, enjoy this archived issue, from June 2008!
In love and light,
Aadil and Savitri
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| Asana and Pranayama | | | Precision with Feeling
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.
-Savitri | |
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| 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 | | Meditation | |  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."
-Savitri | |
| Savitri Recommends Movies | | The Illusionist 
A fascinating story that stretches the mind, twisting and turning it along the way. (PG-13)
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