Julie Rappaport - 365 Yoga
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An elegant and enlightening companion book for yoga practitioners.
This beautifully designed book invites readers to dis-cover the rich tradition of yoga through single pieces of wisdom-one for each day of the year. Filled with thought-provoking and inspiring quotations from the greatest yogic texts and yoga teachers throughout history, as well as invaluable instruction on specific poses, it is an essential resource and companion for anyone who practices yoga.
A celebration of the powerful ancient practice that is yoga, this book guides readers-day by day-through centuries of yogic philosophy. 365 Yoga infuses yoga practice with a deeper understanding of the intricate connection of mind, body, and spirit.
This beautifully designed book invites readers to dis-cover the rich tradition of yoga through single pieces of wisdom-one for each day of the year. Filled with thought-provoking and inspiring quotations from the greatest yogic texts and yoga teachers throughout history, as well as invaluable instruction on specific poses, it is an essential resource and companion for anyone who practices yoga.
A celebration of the powerful ancient practice that is yoga, this book guides readers-day by day-through centuries of yogic philosophy. 365 Yoga infuses yoga practice with a deeper understanding of the intricate connection of mind, body, and spirit.
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I dedicate this book
TO PEACE FOR ALL BEINGS EVERYWHERE.
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!
Om Peace, Peace, Peace!
LIFES LONGING FOR ITSELF
Yoga is happening right now. It is Now. And it is simpler than you think. Through yoga we dive straight into the heart of life and into what lives inside of us. We feel this in our pores; in our muscles, bones, and breath. We feel our connection to all that Is and we have direct experience of this Isness every time we connect our body to our breath. Borrowing a phrase from the poet Kahlil Gibran, yoga is simply a most fundamental and intimate expression of lifes longing for itself; we are the life, the love, and the joy that we seek.
Nothing external is required to enter into yoga. Not even the daily teachings in this book. The words that you find here are simply meant to act as a living teacher would: to help you find clarity and to serve as a guide or mirror, on your journey with yoga and with all of life. More important than any text or any teaching is your relationship with your own body, breath, and mindwith your own true Self. When authentic body-mind integration occurs, a wholeness emerges that leads us toward profound peace. This is yoga.
Striking a balance between action and reflection could be considered one of the goals of yoga. Is it more important to engage with the practices of yoga or with the philosophy? To practice without awareness will block any real transformation, yet the danger with too much philosophy is the tendency toward abstraction and intellectualization. As the great sage Vasistha says: If you conceptualize this teaching for your intellectual entertainment and do not let it act in your own life, you will stumble and fall like a blind man. I offer the passages in this volume as tools for both Practice and reflection. With these tools we may take yoga to deeper levels of understanding. Then our living practice will become luminous and clear the path toward enlightenment.
Writing about yoga presents a few obstacles. Naming the Nameless is a bit like trying to catch soap bubbles in your hand: enticing but impossible. In assembling 365 Yoga I have had the privilege to delve directly into sacred spiritual texts from many traditions and to surround myself with yogic and universal wisdom that touches me. I have been moved to write my own meditations on yoga, which are sprinkled throughout the book. This living tradition grows each day, and I hope the ancient and modern texts that I have chosen reflect this evolution and encourage both those new to yoga and seasoned practitioners to look deeply into themselves and their yoga. I hope that these collected texts accurately transmit the vitality and diversity of yoga, which is like the cosmic serpent Ananta: limitless and infinitely transformative.
Some ways to utilize this book: Read one selection per day, before or after your home practice or yoga class, try out some of the practices that I offer, or flip through the book and read what grabs you. Let these meditations act as an organizing principle. Read a quote in the morning before work or in the evening before sleep. Try closing your eyes and opening a page at random. Or write your own reflections on yoga.
You, the reader, are not asked to buy into any one of the views presented here but to sample from the multiplicity of perspectives. For those who feel a bit overwhelmed by the philosophical underpinnings of this vast tradition, I hope that the selected texts from both East and West will introduce you to the beautiful poetry and prose that spring from the depths of mystical experience. If most of your experience with yoga has been through the practice of physical postures (asanas) in isolation from the sacred teachings, my sincere wish is to show how yoga can work as a spiritual and relevant force in your life.
I hope these pages will inspire you to practice and that some of these teachings will touch you and lead you into the grace of yoga, which is the grace of the divine energy living in all of us, as us.
OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
OM Peace, Peace, Peace.
INVOCATION TO PATANJALI
Yogena cittasya padena vacam
Malamsarirasya ca vaidyakena
Yopakarottam pravaram muninam
Patanjalim pranjalirana tosmi
Malamsarirasya ca vaidyakena
Yopakarottam pravaram muninam
Patanjalim pranjalirana tosmi
Abahu purushakaram
Sankhacakrasidharinam
Sahasrasirasam svetam
Pranamami Patanjalim
Sankhacakrasidharinam
Sahasrasirasam svetam
Pranamami Patanjalim
Shrimate Anataya Nagarajaya
Namo Namah
Namo Namah
To the noblest of sages, Patanjali.
Who gave Yoga for serenity of mind,
Grammar for purity of speech,
And Medicine for perfection of the body, I bow.
I prostrate before Patanjali
Whose upper body has a human form,
Whose arms hold a conch and disc, Who is crowned by a thousand-headed cobra,
O incarnation of Adisesa, my salutations to thee.
Who gave Yoga for serenity of mind,
Grammar for purity of speech,
And Medicine for perfection of the body, I bow.
I prostrate before Patanjali
Whose upper body has a human form,
Whose arms hold a conch and disc, Who is crowned by a thousand-headed cobra,
O incarnation of Adisesa, my salutations to thee.
THE BHOJAVRTTI
Who am I who speaks, walks, stands, and functions on this elaborate stage known as the world? I should find this out.
YOGA VASISHTA
PEACE INVOCATION FOR STUDY
Om saha navavatu. Saha nau bhunaktu
Saha viryam karavavahai. Tejasvinavadhitamastu
Ma vidvisavahai
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!
Saha viryam karavavahai. Tejasvinavadhitamastu
Ma vidvisavahai
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!
TAITTIRIYA UPANISHAD
Om. May we both be protected. May we both enjoy the fruits of scriptual study. May we both exert together to find the true meaning of the sacred text. May our studies be fruitful. May we never quarrel with each other.
Om Peace, Peace Peace!
JR
The Yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine into the mental, vital, and physical nature and life of humanity.
Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the Yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being.
SRI AUROBINDO
Wisdom tells me I am nothing.
Love tells me I am everything.
And between the two my life flows.
Love tells me I am everything.
And between the two my life flows.
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha
Om and Salutation to the remover of obstacles for which
Gum is the seed.
Gum is the seed.
GANESHA MANTRA
Before beginning any new endeavor invoking the elephant-headed God, Ganesha/Ganapatayei, will ensure success. He is the remover of all obstacles and a potent symbol for the practice of yoga.
JR
Hatha yoga is a refuge for all those who are scorched by the three fires. To those who practice yoga, hatha yoga is like the tortoise who supports the three worlds.
HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA
BE YOGA
Lately, everywhere I turn people seem interested in yoga. Do you do yoga? they ask.
How long have you been doing yoga? What kind of yoga do you do?
When you start doing yoga, you miss it all together. It becomes another pastime, rather than a way of being. Try living yoga, being yoga, and notice the difference between doing and being.
JR
By soul I mean, first of all, a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself. This perspective is reflective; it mediates events and makes differences between ourselves and everything that happens. Between us and events, between the doer and the deed, there is a reflective momentand soul-making means differentiating this middle ground.
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