Liberation: Reflections of a yoga student

This space is open to reflect on what is learned through the ancient and healing practice of yoga, from what yoga means to you, how it has helped shape you, and the parallels you draw between yoga, life and the larger world.

If you are a student at Liberation Yoga, you are invited to share your experience-- classes you like, teachers you connect with, or what you've learned through the teacher training program. The intention is to create an interactive community. Reflections, metaphor, questions, poetry, quotes-- welcome here!

7/23
2009

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  • Collaborative Yogi poem

    I initiated this writing exercise on the bus ride back from The Blue Mountain Resort to the airport. A group of us from Liberation Yoga spent a week at a retreat in the cloud forest of southern Costa Rica in March 2007… I started it off and then passed my journal around and each person wrote one line, forming a collaborative group poem of our reflections at the end of the trip:

    The shining, swirling sun sets by the shore

    The waves rolled and the light played in the rolling foam

    Beach bums with bananas and monkeys paw prints

    Tayes paw prints were so big and playful

    With tears of joy we continue dancing through the night

    La amistad es un regalo de Dios y hay que transmitirla con mucha alegria

    All the words encapsulate how we feel after this incredible week— we have related, reconnected, recharged, and rediscovered the sacred space inside a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual spring cleaning

    Yoga is union and union is communion, the sense of being one, of sameness, without homogeneity, without loss of self— one is the other, is the one is all

    Like the talking wind that carries the song of revolution into the hearts of my friends

    Are the tears of blood rung from my intestines

    Have had a wonderful time

    The Jardin Sin Tiempo included small dwarfs who worked all day and night to keep the gentle giants happy and fed, while the white angels

    The day before our last, we practiced Qi Gong, the teacher more like an angel than a human being

    A metamorphosis is the chrysalis transformed, new wet wings emerge golden and strong, gasp and arch up over the misty landscape

    These individuals are such visionaries, strong in creature energy with soft, gentle hearts

    Hearts of joy dancing in Blue Mountain on a misty afternoon while eating a mango; even when it wasn’t quite ripe, it tasted sweet to me, because it was cut with love

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  • Waiting for baby Clementine…

  • Waiting for baby Clementine…

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  • "Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you? Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul"
    - Vivekananda
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  • "To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived"
    - From Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
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  • "When the student is ready, the master appears"
    - Budda
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7/22
2009

  • Liberation Yoga website

    Liberation = freedom, release, salvation, independence, rescue, emancipation, equality

    Liberation Yoga is dedicated to promoting health, peace and freedom in the community and on the planet

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