Liberation: Reflections of a yoga student

What does liberation mean to you?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:55:08 -0400

Collaborative Yogi poem

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:30:00 -0400

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

Waiting for baby Clementine…

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:29:09 -0400

Waiting for baby Clementine…

"Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you? Burst your own cocoon..."

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:25:25 -0400

“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

"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already..."

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:23:00 -0400

“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

"When the student is ready, the master appears"

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:22:16 -0400

“When the student is ready, the master appears”

- Budda

Liberation Yoga website

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:23:00 -0400

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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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:04:18 -0400