september2002

Last month on this page we talked about taking risks in your practice and in your life.

Fall has descended with a deliciously rainy Labor Day weekend, and we're all about to step it up in our work and our lives.  How can we begin to take such risks and fully connect to what we need?

By opening to grace, the first principle of Anusara Yoga, we PARTICIPATE, we consciously involve ourselves in every experience, Yoga or otherwise.  It's challenging for us to open in this way because we have such strong assumptions about our roles in the world.   Through our Yoga practice, we make a connection to ourselves, we ask questions about our definitions of ourselves and continuously re-define our own truths.

Our experience is as great and as broad
as the questions we ask.

Be aware of your own worth.
Our awareness of ourselves as worthy, as divine beings, brings us deeper inside, enabling us to ask ourselves WHAT WE REALLY WANT in any moment.  

Our DESIRE IS NOT AN ADVERSARY, it allows us to broaden our experience of the world.

So we need a strategy for delving into our desires.
The strategy is twofold: AFFIRMATION and INCLUSION.
We must learn to affirm and include the presence of everything;
pleasing, difficult, all qualities... for without the comparisons how would we appreciate anything?

When we affirm and include we find more ease in our day-to-day interactions, we are able to slow down our subconscious assumptions and begin to choose for ourselves HOW TO RESPOND, and how to ASK FOR WHAT WE WANT.

BHAIRAVA, (bh-eye-RA-va) as we were taught by our philosophy teacher Douglas Brooks, is this inherent connectivity to every possibility in our lives.  We learn to affirm with intensity, ferocity; to shirk nothing, to engage everything and truly LIVE EVERY MOMENT OF OUR LIVES.  

Blessings for a fruitful and splendid Fall.
Step all the way into your experience, everyone,
we are so lucky to have the chance to do so.

SAPREMA
[with divine love]
elena