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Comment on Saturday Morning workshop with John

Emma — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:20:13 GMT

would you mind if i link to this post from my blog (thejoyofyoga.blogspot.com)? would be obliged :)

cheers!

emma

Comment on Saturday Morning workshop with John

Amber — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:27:57 GMT

Beautiful! These blogs are teachings in themselves. They are also so uplifting and inspiring: a balance of the goddess trinity.
Black Dog Yoga is so smart and blessed to have you on their faculty. Om Namah Shivaya ॐ नमः शिवाय

Comment on Advanced Intensive, day 2: Saraswati

Amber — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:41:51 GMT

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

Leslie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:57:34 GMT

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

Mackie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:18:20 GMT

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

Babs — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:24:08 GMT

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

Sandra — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:54:19 GMT

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

Comment on Aparigraha

Lia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:45:36 GMT

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

Charlie Levin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:59:49 GMT

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

emma — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:36:02 GMT

i love rumi... thanks :)