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Here you can find
the products used in the Aromayoga class. You can read about
how the products are made and what ingredients are used. The
essential oils help to open up the seven chakras or energy
centers and can help to release blocked areas of your chakras.
They also aid in releasing memory and emotion that are stored
within these centers of your body.
If you do have any allergies and
sensitivity to essential oils, please let me know before
class, or just do not participate in applying them during our
pratice. All ingredients used are complelety free of any
synthetic additives and chemicals and should not cause any
irritations, since they are diluted in a carrier oil. All
ingriedients are either organic or wild
crafted.
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Tuesday
AromaYoga Class:
16. October 2007: 6:30
pm
Letting go of what we think we
own...what we love...what we are accustomed
to...
Practicing non
attachment....
Perhaps you have never experienced that state of
mind in which there is total abandonment of everything,
a complete letting go. And you cannot abandon everything
without deep passion, can you? You cannot abandon
everything intellectually or emotionally. There is total
abandonment, surely, only when there is intense passion.
Don't be alarmed by that word, because a man who is not
passionate, who is not intense, can never understand or
feel the quality of beauty. The mind that holds
something in reserve, the mind that has a vested
interest, the mind that clings to position, power,
prestige, the mind that is respectable, which is a
horror - such a mind can never abandon itself.
In the
state of passion without a cause there is intensity free
of all attachment; but when passion has a cause, there
is attachment, and attachment is the beginning of
sorrow. Most of us are attached, we cling to a person,
to a country, to a belief, to an idea, and when the
object of our attachment is taken away or otherwise
loses its significance, we find ourselves empty,
insufficient. This emptiness we try to fill by clinging
to something else, which again becomes the object of our
passion. Examine your own heart and mind. I am merely a
mirror in which you are looking at yourself. If you
don't want to look, that is quite all right; but if you
do want to look, then look at yourself clearly,
ruthlessly, with intensity - not in hope of dissolving
your miseries, your anxieties, your sense of guilt, but
in order to understand this extraordinary passion which
always leads to sorrow. When passion has a cause it
becomes lust. When there is passion for something - for
a person, for an idea, for some kind of fulfillment -
then out of that passion there comes contradiction,
conflict, effort. You strive to achieve or maintain a
particular state, or to recapture one that has been and
is gone. But the passion of which I am speaking does not
give rise to contradiction, conflict. It is totally
unrelated to a cause, and therefore it is not an
effect.
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Applying
"letting go" to our daily yoga practice on and off the
mat
To
let go is to fear less and love more, to trust
more.
It's about letting go
of the need to strive for the perfect posture and
instead quieting your chattering mind, tapping into the
power of the breath.
Letting go of old ideas of how
your yoga posture should look like, and looking from a
new perspective of how it feels to you. Follow your
inner flow of breath.
The work of
yoga is to coax the mind into letting go of the
perceptions and ideas that keep it stuck so it can
expand and reveal itself as it really is. As vast
creative Awareness. Pure light and ecstasy. An ocean of
peace and power. The Self.
The Universe is
shifting to meet our newly embraced reality. We still
have the same body, the same soul, but our thinking has
changed, and therefore so must our reality change. The
Universe is accommodating us with every change of mind,
that is universal law.
There is a divine energy
that flows from within. This is the river of life that
flows from our hearts. The river is gold and silver,
pure and radiant, a light vibration of the highest
frequency. This light is the Christ, the highest
vibration possible that we can radiate on this plane of
existence. When this river of life flows uninterrupted,
our lives become perfect and in harmony with the
Creator's intention.
In todays class, try to
let go of how you would usually do your asanas and just
follow your body, how it naturally wants to
flow....
Embrace change...embrace
the new.
Think of if you had to leave
everything behind you and there would only be one thing
that you could take with you, what would it
be?
Look at your life and see
where you can practice letting go: physically, mentally,
emotionally?
Letting go of clutter, of
clothes, of things that you do not need any
longer.
Letting go of emotions that
you carry around with you, that are an illusion and self
created.
Letting go circumstances/people
in your life, that do not serve your highest
good.
Letting
go of unhealthy/unfulfilling
habits.
Letting go is very freeing and
makes room for new energy to come in.
You'd be surprised what the
universe has in store for you, once you make room for
the new....
Blessed
Be!
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LETTING GO
TAKES LOVE
To let go is not to
fix,
but to be supportive.
To let go
is not to judge,
but to allow another to
be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the
middle arranging all the outcomes,
but
to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go
is not to be protective,
it's to permit
another to face reality.
To let go is not to
deny,
but to accept.
To let go is not
to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to
search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To
let go is not to adjust everything to my
desires,
but to take each day as it
comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to
criticize or regulate anybody,
but to
try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not
to regret the past,
but to grow and live
for the future.
To let go is to fear less and
love more
Remember:
The time to love is short
Author unknown
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THE RIVER OF LIFE
Letting go
is plunging into this flow without thoughts of a fearful
nature and trusting that lifetimes of fear will be
reversed and perfection manifested our lives. However,
this does not happen to our timetable, but to the
Creator's timing. First we must deal with the self-made
creations already in our lives before we feel the major
effects of the divine. Letting go has to happen first in
order that the Greater can come in. Depending on our
past experiences and reactions to those situations, we
may have created such beautiful karma that life is a
continuous blissful state. Then again, it may not
be.
NOT RESISTING
Letting go is
acknowledging that there is a greater power that flows
through us that has our best interest at heart. Without
any effort on our parts, we can let go to this power and
allow. By not resisting, we can let our lives flow like
a river from our hearts, making room in our lives for
everything that needs to be there and allowing other
things to pass by and move on. The joy of life is in the
standing still and allowing. We discover that peace
comes in when we cease to struggle. When we know we are
in a dream, everything can be released.
By Barry
Elwin-Jones
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Please
come to Centerpoint Studios weekly ongoing
ChakraAromaYoga Class.
The level of this yoga class
is from advanced beginner to intermediate. I do try to
accommodate all levels. If you have no experience in
yoga at all, you are welcome to just join in and sit on
your mat. Observe, visualize, meditate and experience
the oils and the sounds. No one will be send away and
there is absolutely no judgement. This is a feel good
class and healing does occur from being part of the
circle. Its about healing from the inside out and not
about how many advanced poses you can do.
Please
always listen to your body and only do what feels right
at that certain moment. Please let me know about any
injuries that you have before we start class.
Class
is every Tuesday evening from 6:30pm to 7:55pm.
Centerpoint Studios are
located at: 324, Lafayette Street, 7th floor (just north
of Houston) By subway: take the 6 to Bleeker, or W/R to
Prince Street or V/ B/D/F to Broadway
Lafayette
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What are
chakras?
Chakras are psychic centers that lie along the
axis of the spine as consciousness potentials. The
chakras are not materially real and are to be understood
as situated, not in the gross body, but in the subtle or
etheric body. Repositories of psychic energies, they
govern the whole condition of being. In the Hindy
tradition they are usually represented as
lotuses.
As kundalini energy reaches each chakra,
that lotus opens and lift its flower; and as soon as she
leaves for a higher chakra, the lotus closes its petals
and hangs down, symbolizing the activation of the
energies of the chakra and their assimilation to
kundalini.
Each of the chakras, according to the
Tantras, corresponds to one of the elements of which the
known world is compounded. Muladhara represents
solidity; Svadhisthana, liquidity; Manipura, the
gaseous; Anahata, the aerial; Vishuddha, the etheric, or
space.
This ascent through the chakras can be
viewed as an upward journey through the
self.
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As a
courtesy to other yogis, please try to be on time. If
you want to reserve your space you can do so by going to
www.mindbodyonline.com, click on yoga and then enter
centerpointstudios. Its easy.
Aromatic
Blessings,
Tanja
April
Aromatics
tanjab1@mac.com
http://www.aprilaromatics.com
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