OUR FIRST POP-UP PRACTICE WAS A HIT!
Many thanks to everyone who came to our first pop-up practice. We had a great turn out and there was a wonderful energy in the room.
We'd especially like to thank Kylie, for hosting us at her gorgeous Body Maintenance Studio, and Heather, for teaching a beautiful class. I guess you could say our theme for the practice was 'spontaneity', and Heather put together some fantastic quotes that touched on this. Great food for thought...
'The goal of wisdom is laughter and play-- not the kind that one sees in little children who do not yet have the faculty of reason, but the kind that is developed in those who have grown mature through both time and understanding. If someone has experienced the wisdom that can only be heard from oneself, learned from oneself, and created from oneself, he or she does not merely participate in the laughter-- the person becomes the laughter itself.' Philo (circa 20 BCE-50CE) Alexandrian Jewish philosopher
'Without the interference of the ego, actions become spontaneous, appearing as a smooth flow (like vinyasa). Truly enlightened beings have an economy and elegance of movement about them that is absent in the unenlightened, because they have removed the obstacle of the ego.' George Feurerstein
'When I am not preoccupied with going TO someplace, the going itself can become joyous.' Yun-men, Ch'an Master
And a few thoughts from Heather herself...
'For me, yoga is not about the obliteration of the self. It is the obliteration of a false perception of self-- one that inherently limits our vision of who and what we are. Call that process a loss of ego, call it whatever you like. But in the end, I think yoga simply makes us recognise that we are 'more than'-- 'more than' our mind, 'more than' our physical body, 'more than' what others think of us, 'more than' our past, and so forth. And once we awaken to that reality, I think we find NOT that we are nothing, but jsut the opposite. We find that we are limitless, connected with everyone and everything, never wholly separate, and therefore, never alone. For me, this realisation is a source of vast comfort and empowerment.'
We'd especially like to thank Kylie, for hosting us at her gorgeous Body Maintenance Studio, and Heather, for teaching a beautiful class. I guess you could say our theme for the practice was 'spontaneity', and Heather put together some fantastic quotes that touched on this. Great food for thought...
'The goal of wisdom is laughter and play-- not the kind that one sees in little children who do not yet have the faculty of reason, but the kind that is developed in those who have grown mature through both time and understanding. If someone has experienced the wisdom that can only be heard from oneself, learned from oneself, and created from oneself, he or she does not merely participate in the laughter-- the person becomes the laughter itself.' Philo (circa 20 BCE-50CE) Alexandrian Jewish philosopher
'Without the interference of the ego, actions become spontaneous, appearing as a smooth flow (like vinyasa). Truly enlightened beings have an economy and elegance of movement about them that is absent in the unenlightened, because they have removed the obstacle of the ego.' George Feurerstein
'When I am not preoccupied with going TO someplace, the going itself can become joyous.' Yun-men, Ch'an Master
And a few thoughts from Heather herself...
'For me, yoga is not about the obliteration of the self. It is the obliteration of a false perception of self-- one that inherently limits our vision of who and what we are. Call that process a loss of ego, call it whatever you like. But in the end, I think yoga simply makes us recognise that we are 'more than'-- 'more than' our mind, 'more than' our physical body, 'more than' what others think of us, 'more than' our past, and so forth. And once we awaken to that reality, I think we find NOT that we are nothing, but jsut the opposite. We find that we are limitless, connected with everyone and everything, never wholly separate, and therefore, never alone. For me, this realisation is a source of vast comfort and empowerment.'
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