NO CLASS JUNE 12 - 25
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 June 18 - 24, 2012  
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SUMMER IS HERE!

I'm off to the high desert
of New Mexico for
SS2012
NO CLASS
JUNE 12
to
JUNE 25
(including Yoga at the Armory)

CLASSES RESUME
TUESDAY, JUNE 26
(Yoga at the Armory
resumes July 22)

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The Wizard of Awe
Where is your yellow brick road?

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." 
-- Siddhartha

I happen to love Kundalini yoga so I do it often.

 

You, on the other hand, may not take to Kundalini yoga. Maybe you're all about "hot" yoga, something I have never been drawn to mostly for fear that during a peak pose other people's sweat will fly off of them and onto me.

 

Yellow Brick RoadThen there is always the possibility that (*gasp*) you don't care for any kind of yoga. Perhaps you prefer gardening or hiking to feel centered and connected to your highest self. Maybe you play an instrument or paint or sing and that brings forth your deepest meditative experience.

 

To that I say: fantastic!

 

My point is that there is no one path that is The Way. Kundalini yoga is not "better" than hot yoga or hiking. It's simply the best tool I have found for getting myself together and feeling good. If it didn't work for me, I can guarantee I would not do it. Nor would I bother every year to haul my butt up 7,500 feet above sea level to camp and meditate in the dry, dusty heat for 10 days (which I am doing as you read this) if it didn't bring me serious benefits. It's challenging as hell but, for me, it really works...so this girly-girl, who prefers mani-pedis and air-conditioning to "roughing it," now owns her own tent and cot.

Does that sound intriguing? Maybe you're itching to join me on that mountaintop one of these days. Or maybe not so much? Either way, that's cool. It doesn't matter that you do what I find effective to liberate my body, mind and spirit.

 

It only matters that you do what is effective to liberate yours.

 

Now maybe you don't know what that is -- in that case, I urge you to find out. No one else can identify it for you and if they try, I gently suggest that you run screaming in the other direction. Dedication to and passion for one's own path is a wonderful thing. Believing that way is The Way is a dangerous thing. A good teacher or spiritual adviser is not someone who tries to impose a particular philosophy on you but rather someone who assists you in the discovery of yourself.

 

So be open to others' suggestions but blaze your own trail. It's the only one you can walk. 

 

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Sat Nam,
Mary
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