Dharma

feeds@kickapps.com (sundari) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:36:21 PST

Hello Erich

Hope you're well.

I know this is a wide question, I was wondering if you could say something about dharma in relation to your teachings. My teacher has said that dharma is that which supports us, that which stops us falling and that which brings us back when we fall.

I like the way that you always seem to make yoga philosophy simple and digest-able. So I guess what I'm asking is for your take on Dharma.

Thank you

Zoe

working with pregnant students

feeds@kickapps.com (downdog1) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:24:14 PST

I don't have much experience with pregnant women in my classes, however two of my regulars are pregnant. I'm doing research and learning what to do and not do. The class they come to is more of a strenuous vinyasa flow. I am at a loss when it comes to if we are in a twisting lunge, what should the pregnant women do? Since twists are out, how can I modify twists for them?
Thanks!

Raw Food

feeds@kickapps.com (Greenkitchen) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:30:42 PST

Can anyone recommend a good raw food (for lack of a better word) cookbook? I could use some inspiration!

iphone ap

feeds@kickapps.com (Greenkitchen) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:28:48 PST

Hi Erich,
I just got an I phone and was searching yoga and found your ap... Way cool!

Miami

feeds@kickapps.com (fullypresent) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:22:22 PST

Around this time, in the depths of winter, I start dreaming of warm sand and sun--which got me wondering about Erich's Miami workshop. Do any of you have details on the location and cost, etc? It would be nice to think about something concrete...and you never know what doors the universe will open...Namaste.

manifesting good

feeds@kickapps.com (georgiagail) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:10:22 PST

Erich, I have heard you talk several times about how effortlessly and through no struggle on your own behalf, good things have always come to you. Do you think that you are just lucky that way, or is there some specific way that you live that makes this happen? I want that for myself....less struggle, more freedom. Does this question make sense? I understand the law of attraction, but this is not quite that...or is it??
Gail

Back From The Silence

feeds@kickapps.com (Greenkitchen) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:07:24 PST

Hello All
I haven't posted since September 8th or 9th, 2009. I needed silence. Yoga changed me from the inside and that change created a lot of change, positive and otherwise, around me.

First the positive. My practice has deepened. My relationship with my husband deepened and I am surrounded by love and light at home and at play (work). My body changed and people tell me I look different. I am a yogi and that influence, that energy, that connectedness, is felt by everyone around me. It repels negativity, but the repelling process sometimes includes chaos and turmoil before everything settles down.

A lot of the negative happened at the office which is where I put a lot of energy and focus and made me vulnerable to psychic attack (some people really hate change

Avatar, The Movie...is Pandora within us?

feeds@kickapps.com (Ed Conley) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:18:21 PST

I just saw the Avatar and it's power keeps going off in my mind like I swallowed some 4th of July rockets. Boom! Another insight goes off. This movie I believe is going to speed up humanities shift from the world view of separateness to that of unity, and the reason I see this is because Avatar first opens our mind with wonder (the 3D and seamless marriage of human and digital), then through that hole pours in it's hero quest for the Grail. This is the ancient path of the hero (see Joseph Campbell) and all on the yoga path are this one hero. The hero is us. And the Holy Grail we seek is unity consciousness. There is only one Unity consciousness.

There is a switch in the movie. Did you see it? When it happened I wrote in down in the dark so I wouldn't forget: "Out there is the true world; in here is the dream." At that point our hero experiences a radical shift in consciousness where one world dies and another is born. When the old world dies, the...

500 hr. programs

feeds@kickapps.com (downdog1) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:49:10 PST

Hi all,
I am looking for some advice on choosing a 500 hour program. I live just outside of NYC.
Any recommendations? I am a workshop junkie. Should I just continue attending and learning from workshops that I am interested in, or is there much benefit to taking a formal 500 hour program.
Has anyone done Kripalu's 500 hour program?
Thanks for any guidance!
Jill

Obesity

feeds@kickapps.com (messymerry) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:56:53 PST

Male breast op numbers 'growing fastest'

Surgery to correct 'man-boobs' is increasingly popular

Breast reduction for men is the fastest growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the second year running, plastic surgeons have said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8487526.stm

This is great!!! If this doesn't prove a...

teaching

feeds@kickapps.com (jamiem) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:53:10 PST

Hi. I have been teaching for a couple of years and I have a question about etiquette. I recently went to Naramata when you were visiting and so much of what you said about 'freedom style' really resonnated with me and I felt like I finally found the style that was most like me! It was such a relief. I use more contemporary music, not necessarily "yoga" music, but it is chosen thoughtfully. A lot of my students like it....but I have had 3 students make comments in 3 separate teachings. Two asked me to 'turn it down' and one simply said she 'could not concentrate because of the lyrics' (after sitting on her mat and looking about for others in disbelief). I don't want to change who I am as a teacher and this is who I am as a teacher, so do I just continue on, accepting that some people just won't like it. I am not doing anything outrageous, in my opinion, it isn't so loud that I...

My Yoga Story

feeds@kickapps.com (icomeinpeace) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:01:54 PST

Sometimes I don’t remember how it all began. I just recall walking around like I was unstoppable with a longing to set the world on fire – for all the wrong reasons. Far removed from the ability to focus on anything for more than eleven minutes at a time – I was lost. As if that wasn’t bad enough – I had taught myself how to justify all of my actions. Not only had I learned this skill but I had elevated it to an art form. I was causing nothing but harm. Harm to others – and harm to myself. These seemed like the best of times.

Spicy hot chocolate

feeds@kickapps.com (sanna) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:47:16 PST

Is it winter where you er.Do you like hot chocolate. It's the right thing.
for 2 people.
100.g. 70% chocolate
1.ts chili flakes
1st cinnamon stick
a little vanilla
milk
or soy milk

Body types

feeds@kickapps.com (Sleeping Turtle) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:26:01 PST

For my pilates teacher training we are working on some case studies of what sort of sessions you give to different types of body. It would be helpful if those of you who teach yoga or who have practised it a long time could tell me about what the different sorts of asana practice do to the body and also what you aim for in students (e.g. open the shoulders). Were any of you taught this? Have you observed that particular types of asana practice do different things to students? Both (1) What you aim for and (2) what develops. E.g. Iyegar tends to open the chest and people CAN get "ribby". Some iyengar people say they can spot if their students do astanga too from the shape of their shoulders..

Thanks...

(and I know a body type is not the main goal, but it does happen)

Tense Neck and Shoulders

feeds@kickapps.com (southernyogi) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:20:41 PST

So like many people- I carry most of my tension around my neck and shoulders.
Typically I can work with it and gently open things up.
Today, I feel like every muscle around my jaw to the bottom of my shoulders blades are in "fight" mode. So tense and not relenting at all.
Any suggestions to slow ease into the muscles and maybe release some of the tension.

I finally got 8 hours of sleep last night and phyiscally feel better than I have in days. but I know it has to do with the fact I work at a computer for 11-12 hours a day. So my arms and head are always in the same position.

Any tips are much much appreciated

your stick neck girl

Autobiography of a Jnani

feeds@kickapps.com (sunita) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:02:05 PST

A new book is available for download. It is the complete edited dialogues between Ed Muzika and Rajiv regarding the various states Rajiv experienced during meditation on the I Am sense It is intended as a meditation guide for those who want to actually experience an awakening. For those who have read the earlier dialogues, (Advaite for Yogis) this book has a new introduction and an additional 80 pages.

In this book, the experience of Turiya is clearly described, also known as the waking sleep, as well as pitfalls to be avoided, like pausing at an incorrect understanding of consciousness and the Absolute.

Download:

Fabric design

feeds@kickapps.com (vv1234) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:52:56 PST

So I'm still a little confused about how the marketplace works but I'm going to post this anyway. :-)
I am selling fabric with my designs (although when I sell a design, I don't earn actual cash) printed on the fabric. For now most of my designs are suitable as childrens fabric or quilting fabric. However, I am thinking about designing fabric designs that would be suitable for yogis wanting fabric for a personal touch. Like maybe fabric for a yoga bag or eye pillows, etc.
Check out my designs here at my profile. Keep watching as I will be adding designs with a slightly more grown up feel in the next few weeks.
LOL, while you are there (for the next week or so) you can vote on one my designs that is in a contest. It's titled "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My" and will be somewhere in the mix with 132 other fabulous designs. Here is the link:

Yoga...never heard of it.

feeds@kickapps.com (Ed Conley) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:38:44 PST
I just noticed as I introduce myself to this forum that this is the wrong question for me. I didn't come to yoga, yoga came to me. In 1968 yoga was not on my horizon even though I had spend most of the decade searching for truth in philosophy and religion, fruitlessly, I might add. As a Virginia high school teacher I became aware of the revolution in consciousness that was occurring through my students. Little did I know that it was occurring in me.

I went to sleep one night listening to an audio of Krishnamurti, given by a friend who saw him on public TV. When I awoke the next morning, my soul was awake. I looked in the mirror and recognized my Self. The personality that was the day before was like a dream, and now I suddenly knew who I was. I broke out laughing. What followed is very difficult to describe (and I have never done this in public like this before), but I felt as though I was operating prior to mind. All kinds of people were attracted to...

The Divine Mother's Energy Lies in All Beings

feeds@kickapps.com (Dancing Lotus) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:49:23 PST

I don't know much about this intellectually, but the energetics of this so moves me!
It has an abrupt energy, but what is there is worth every second of it!
Offered in Deepest Love

Video to get after the "Beginning Yoga" video?

feeds@kickapps.com (erikro) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:43:08 PST
Hi,

I have your "Beginner Yoga" video and enjoy it very much. I would like to know which video you would recommend next to switch things up? The "Backbends" video looks interesting to me. Are there any inversions? Are your live classes still available on video? I am not interested in vinyasa at this time. I really enjoy gentle yoga right now. It keeps me coming back for more.

Thank you,
Erik

Moving Into Stillness