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Few people think more than two or three times a year...

6/11/2015

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw

 As the saying goes “the more things change, the more they remain the same.” I just googled “Restorative Yoga Teacher Training.” Got 208,000 hits! Typed “Yoga Therapy Teacher Training.” Got 2,650,000 hits! Obviously main stream stuff! The majority of the courses typically run from 15 to 40 hours (1 or 2 weekends).  There are also longer in-depth courses offered -- usually 200 or 300 hours. I found one teacher training of 1000 hours but it hadn’t actually started. It was just proposed.


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Pocas personas piensan más de dos o tres veces al año…

6/11/2015

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Pocas personas piensan más de dos o tres veces al año; he adquirido una reputación internacional por pensar una o dos veces a la semana.

George Bernard Shaw

Como dice el dicho, “Entre más cambian las cosas, más permanecen iguales.” Al teclear en Google “Entrenamiento profesional para formar maestros de Yoga Restaurativo”,  ¡obtuve 208,000 respuestas! Luego escribí, “Entrenamiento profesional para formar maestros en Yoga Terapia” y obtuve 2, 650,000 respuestas. ¡Obviamente se trata de un tema de interés general! La gran mayoría de estos cursos duran entre 15 y 40 horas (uno o dos fines de semana). También se ofrecen cursos más largos (usualmente de 200 a 300 horas). Encontré un entrenamiento para formar maestros de yoga de 1000 horas, pero en realidad no había comenzado. Sólo se había propuesto.


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Liberation

6/11/2015

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 “The unexamined life is not worth living” Socrates (470 BC—399BC)

At the time of Patanjali and the Buddha, yoga was about liberation - permanent freedom from the cycle of birth and death. According to Patanjali, this was to be achieved by a process where identification with Prakriti, the individual self and matter, would be replaced with the realization that we are actually Purusha, the soul of the universe without form, unchanging and uncaused. If a yogi were to be successful in this endeavor they could/would enter Mahasamadhi where they expire at the end of their final sadhana or spiritual practice.  A modern book illustrating this story is Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die by Sushila Blackman. Also one can view on the Internet pictures of mummified monks who are thought to have entered Mahasamadhi. Interesting as this story is, Mahasamadhi likely is not something modern yoga practitioners are interested in.

What has changed? Have yogis today gone soft with our Lululemon tights and Manduka mats?


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En mi imaginación… 

6/4/2015

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En mi imaginación…

Cuando le preguntaron a Mahatma Gandhi si el mundo era real o una ilusión (maya), él contestó que es maya pero debe tratarse como real. Cuando Anita Sielecki iba a hacer un comentario sobre un taller que yo acababa de enseñar comenzó diciendo: “En mi imaginación…” Con una introducción como esa, cualquier crítica se puede tomar a bien: nada personal, puede que no sea real, sólo en mi imaginación. La respuesta de Gandhi y el prefacio de Anita comenzaron un tren del pensamiento: ¿Qué es ilusión? ¿Qué es real? ¿Cuánto es solo imaginación? ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre realidad e imaginación?



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In My Imagination…

6/2/2015

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When Mahatma Gandhi was asked if the world was real or an illusion (maya), he replied that it was maya but it must be treated as real. When Anita Sielecki prefaced a comment she was about to make about a workshop that I had just taught, she used three simple words: “In my imagination…” A preface like that makes a critique easy to take:  Nothing personal here, might not be real, just my imagination. Gandhi’s answer and Anita’s preface started a train of thought: What is illusion? What is real? How much is just imagination? What is the difference between reality and imagination? 


 
 

 


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