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Interesting Links
Kundalini and Sahaja (Spontaneous) Yoga
A Next Step for Yoga in the West
by Stuart Sovatsky.
Shandor Remete - Shadow Yoga - article about Mastering Shakti
Interview with Shiva Rea
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Fluid Body - The Wave |
Fluid Power: Emergence of the Yogic-Quantum Body
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In yoga, all of the ways we consciously and unconsciously view our experience shows up within the body. Mental-emotional states manifest within the body and the body transforms the inner world. Yoga as a state of union occurs as the continuum between the inner and outer worlds is imbued with consciousness.
Yoga has always understood being alive as an dynamic, energetic process that unites the microcosm (human being) with macrocosm (universe) - a paradigm know supported through the avantgarde of western medicine, science, somatics and quantum physics. Studies abound with evidence of cellular communication - as out heart and "gut" (enteric brain) demonstrate ways of knowing and complex shifts of being initiated through frequencies (vibration) that are beyound the bio-chemistry of the brain.
Many teachers from the West from Deeprak Chopra to Emile Conrad D'aoud, Fritjof Capra and Fred Alan Wolf, are calling for awakening to the potential known within yoga and in our very cells - we are vibrating currents of unlimited creative potential - held within the fluid matrix - as both the literal waters of live and of the pulsating energetic waves that communicate a fluid reality.
Siva Dance - Tandava
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Lets take the plunge and massaging the medieval paradigms
Old View: Body as Matter, Solid and Fixed
This view of our body is often reinforced through our experience of the density of our muscles tissue which "hardens" due to lack of circulation of all primary body fluids, stress-patterns (contraction of the muscles, diaphragm for breathing, blood vessels) and sedentary, bound or rigid movements (from sitting to weight lifting to structure dominant yoga asanas (example warrior 3). While we need to develop good structural awareness and strength, solid and mechanized metaphors of the body are often reinforced such as "abs of steel" or "lean machine" that are contary to the fluid strenght reflected in nature in animals (felines are great examples) and the elements (from lava to rivers).
Yogic Quantum View:
Our body is a river of currents from the gross (able to touch and see) to the subtle (energetic) of interconnected systems that interact in a continuum with our environment (see fluid body facts). Our capacity for renewal, change mobility and fluidity is the very nature of the fluids and of the molecular-quantum reality of who we are. If we could see the world through the quantum lens of hi-powered microscopes, we would see a world described by the Tantric-Yogic view - the great Dance of the universal substance of life or spanda-shakti.
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Qualities of the Fluid Body
Rhythmic - Pulsation - Vibratory - Wave
transforms solid, dissonant view of body/world
Mobile - Adaptable - Flexible Circular/Spiral
transforms rigidity, holding patterns (samskaras), stagnation
Global (cellular-quantum) intelligence - Connectivity - Resonance
transforms seperation, "parts", myopia
Spontaneous - Creative - Diversified - Poteniality
transforms mechanized movement & thinking, dullness, limitation
Sap, Juice, Rasa, Ojas, Nourishing, Sustainable
"waters" dryness, depletion & "burn out" on all levels
Renewal - Neural Pathways Firing - Longevity
Transform entropy, conditioning, regression |
Siva as pure consciousness |
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Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. How to reinterpret Your body
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The quantum worldview, or the new paradigm, teaches us that we are constantly making and unmaking our bodies. Behind the illusion of its being a solid, stable object, the body is a process, and as long as that process is directed toward renewal, the cells of the body remain new, no matter how much time passes of how much entropy we are exposed to.
The great enemy of renewal is habit; when frozen interpretation from the past are applied to the present, there will always be a gap between the need of the moment and the solution from the past. To have a renewed body, you must be willing to have new perceptions that give rise to new solutions.
Think about the organic connection between everything in existance:
no matter how seperate anything appears to the senses, nothing is seperate at the quantum level
The quantum field exists in, around, and through you. You are not looking at the field-in every wave and particle, the field is your extended body.
Each of your cells is a local concentration of information and energy inside the wholeness of information and energy of your body. Likewise you are a local concentration of information and energy in the wholeness that is the body of the universe.
Having absorbed the knowledge that your body is not a sculpture isolated in space and time redefine yourself by using the power of awarenes.
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Dive deep into your body, your perception - sound, taste, visuals - and absorb your emotions in your body space.
Prana Shakti
- Pulse of life
"Shakti is the creative pulse of life moving through all things.
It’s the spanda, the vibration, the pulsation. It’s the space where physics and yoga meet. Our breath, our prana shakti units all aspects of our self, body, mind, emotion, spirit" Shiva Rea
"The Shakti is everywhere in life and it is in matter. In matter it waits to reveal itself. That shakti which we call spirit also is what Sri Aurobindo talked about when he said "matter shall reveal spirits face". So as we evolve the shakti becomes present not only in human beings not only in all life but in all things.
Through the use of this shakti with respect we grow, we become waster, we become more able to move towards our karma. The experience of shakti is the experience of being fully alive. The experience of shakti is not only power but its counterpoint humility. The experrience of shakti is molding power and humility with the center which is wisdom. So the shakti emerges from the pelvis upwards, the intelligence of humilility comes from the brain down but the wisdom emerges from the heart. And it is this confluence of the upper the mind and the lower the pelvis which creates the beautiful ability to refer to the most sacred space in the human body the atma cakca or the vortex of the heart" Aadil Palkhivala
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Tara observing the lake of nectar
"We focused on breath in the pose and feel moving that energy in a way that is just delicious. We got our practise like that and its ecstatic and sweety which is part of it, to get hot, or get that cooking in your thighs, that burning and just go back to shakt" Ana Forrest
Interviews from Shiva Rea "Yoga Shakti Dvd"
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The tantric song of Sacred Tremor
Spandakarika
by Daniel Odier (excerpt)
Having been revealed at the beginning of the ninth century by Siva to Vasagupta, or to say it more directly, having gushed forth like a spring from Vasugupta's own heart, it presents the essence of the Tantras in fifty-two marvelously elliptical stanzas.
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Ksehmaraja an important teacher in the tradition, who left a long commentary, stresses the fact that the "Song of the sacred tremor" is a presentation of Mahamudra.
This yoga, the teaching of which has almost completely disappeared, is very profound. It seems to have been the form that preceeded Hatha Yoga. It's very simplicity is what makes it so difficult. The most ancient masters of the tradition had come to the realization that all is movement in the universe. They saw everything, including matter as consciousness, and they invented a yoga that fits this realization that all is movement in the universe. This sacred dance called Tandava, is carried out in three phases: During the first stage, the body is realeased into space, the breath settles in, and the sacred tremoring of the organs is welcomed by consciousness, which allows this innner palpitation to become free and thus rejoins the limitless, Lalita devi compared this sensation to the movement, where the limbs are carried by the breath in a corcular unfolding.
In the second phase, the yogi lets his amrs open into space, the spinal column extremely supple, the eyelis slightly open, the tongue relaxed, the perinuium open, the breath feed, The shoulder blades are open like wings and give balance to the body, which is normally drawn mor toward the front. This whole yoga is practised visualizing oneself naked, floating in midnight blue space
In the third phase, the yogi get up and allows his whole body to express the dance of Shiva in space. These movements look like a completely free kind o t'ai chi in which no movement is codified, The sequential linking of these movements make up the whole Kashmiri yoga such as I received from my master, yogini Lalita Devi.
The Spandakarika presents the philosophy that was born of htis practise, and all the yoga does is keep bringing us back to the source of this fundamental realisation. |
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In this work, Siva appears as the white bindu and Sakti as the red within the primal triangle symbolizing their essential unity.
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Siva-Sakti
Siva is the great ascetic god who wounds in order to heal more deeply. Siva is the masculine concept of pure consciousness.
His consort, Sakti, manifests the kinetic power that is the foundation of all life. Sakti is the female principle of creative energy.
Siva manifests consciousness and is the paradigm of meditative quiet and unshakable stillness. And paradoxically, his acts are frequently disconcerting and unpredictable. Nevertheless, he is beautiful, ultimately beneficial, and healing and thus an object of intense devotion.
On transcendentic level Siva and Sakti are one. Siva and Sakti are just two names given to the Absolute to help clarify the concepts of trancendence and immanence. The essence of tantric Yoga writings is the record of the stream of dialogues between Siva and Sakti.
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The Absolute Consciousness is calm, tranquil and always aware of itself. The Self-Awareness of the Absolute is a subtle form of activity, This action (kriya) is a kind of subtle stir that gives rise to joy and creative impulse, a process of becoming aware of itself.
Spanda - vibration - the wave - double spiral
The stirring of Self-awareness is spanda -the vibration, the wave. It makes the Absolute consciousness vibrant and expansive. All phenomena of devine power become reflective and manifestated to the vibrative nature of spanda.
Spanda is a double-edged movement of pure Consciousness proceeding outwardly and inwardly at the same time. Since all creation is an outward manifestation of the Sakti of Siva, the word Sakti is often used to denote creation itself. Spanda on the other hand, is the blissful spiritual stir that constantly rises and falls withing Siva by virtue of His being Sakti. Or to put it in another way, Siva is always being charged with spanda because he is Sakti,. Spanda is thus the interior manifestation of Sakti, the subtle inner stir of Sakti before the outer manifestation takes place.
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