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Comment on Advanced Intensive, day 2: Saraswati

2010-03-06T20:41:51Z

Awesome notes. Wish I had time to read all your amazing blogs. What a teacher! What a yogini! Good that you have oldies like me reading. The song that Betty (?) sang which was "The Song is You". Her acapella rendition gave me chills. It was Shri! Glorious! Here is a version sung by Frank Sinatra. http://tinyurl.com/yatcyc2

Comment on Advanced Intensive, day 3: Lakshmi

2010-03-06T14:57:34Z

Thank you for sharing and for your insights. Sounds like a wonderful 'demo moment' that you'll remember for a long time.

Comment on Advanced Intensive, day 2: Saraswati

2010-03-05T05:18:20Z

My dear Maria!

Thank you for your insight and your honesty. I always enjoy reading your blog. You are Saraswati.

This is my first time attending the advanced intensive, I had no idea what I was going to face and even though my teachers encouraged me to apply I was a little intimidated by the title and level of practice that was going to be expected.

There have been many moments in the past few days when I felt the veil descending… what am I doing here? I'm not good enough. I can't do half these poses. I kept breathing and remembering. I know I'm surrounded by love, the tiger has not eaten me yet.

Yesterday when John was talking about Kali and Durga and how if you are not completely present and in the moment she will eat you, I kept thinking about the times when I've been walking and come face to face with a coyote. There really is something so fierce and terrifying in the eyes of a wild animal like that. There is no fear, there is a burning, it's as if they can see right through to your soul. And even though I keep telling myself, they don't normally attack humans, the hair on the back of my neck raises and I feel a surge of electrical energy - adrenalin coursing through my blood stream. So I tried to bring that level of aliveness to my practice.

Today the personal insight that I got was that the goddess really wants to dance with us. She is luring us to dance with her. The longing that we feel for enlightenment is her calling us to dance. And each one of us can dance with her. We don't have to be able to fold in half backwards or recite the sutras in english and sanscrit for her to join us on the razors edge in a dance. We just have to find our way there and she will put her arms around us and lift us up. So I keep remembering to dance to the best of my ability and remember her. I'm sore from the top of my head to my toes, but it feels good. I'm exstatic I could be part of this gathering.

I am grateful for the opportunity to be in the presence of so many goddesses, and so grateful to practice in the presence of my teachers as we all dance this beautiful dance together.

Thank you so much Maria, for being such a light.

xoxo Mackie

Comment on Advanced Intensive, day 1: Kali

2010-03-04T16:24:08Z

This intensive sounds so amazing! I don't know much about Anusara but all the things I've heard about it are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing! Oh, and I'm glad you found your murti. I love how she came to you. I'm still searching for mine :D

Comment on Freedom Riders

2010-02-28T15:54:19Z

Maria Cristina, I really thought this was beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences.

Comment on Aparigraha

2010-02-22T05:45:36Z

Maria Cristina,

Such a lovely post and an even more lovely class...I felt so emotional during your introduction to the theme and so grateful to be there in that class with you this morning...you have a way of touching my heart, deeply and effortlessly.

And I loved so much that you framed the class in terms of "courage"...I think it is so easy to forget that courage is required to make change...that love and opening, these things we think of as just sweet and gooshy, actually require a lot of courage...the courage to say, NO, I will not let myself get thrown off the path or deprived of experience for all these reasons my brain tells me are perfectly reasonable and worth denying myself for.

Thank you for being...awesome.

xo
Lia

Comment on a quote from Albert Einstein

2010-02-18T14:59:49Z

Apparently Einstein kept a copy of Madame Helena Blavatsky's Theosophist text "The Secret Doctrine" on his desk at all times? So he may have gotten some of the Vedantic theory from the Theosophists.

Comment on A love poem

2010-02-16T02:36:02Z

i love rumi... thanks :)

Comment on Yoga Philosophy

2010-02-15T18:40:13Z

Oh, I love reading about your teaching. It sounds so wonderful and makes me wish I could do it all over again!

Comment on Teacher Training

2010-02-08T08:06:27Z

MC,

I love this...I love you speaking about that little hiccup of fear when it comes time to speak...I had that exact experience today, and I always feel so ashamed about it, as if I am the only one who ever feels that way and am, therefore...deficient. You always strike me as so eloquent, so much a speaker from the heart and it gives me a lot of relief to know you have that same little dazzle of fear!

I am envious of all your TT students...it sounds glorious.