LIVING YOUR YOGA

Living your yoga assignments are given out in Aparna's classes each week.If you missed one you can also find them here.

DECEMBER 2019

Week I - This week take a leap of faith.

Week II - This week remember the obstacles in your path ARE the path.

Week III - This week don't make a big deal of failure. Get up & move on.

Week IV - This week keep calm & get your HO, HO HO on.

Dearest yogi & yogini,

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
― Abraham Lincoln


We have all heard from countless teachers & masters or read in countless new age books about ‘Being present, being in the moment.’ So, what is so special about this ‘being present thing’? What makes this moment so exceptional and unusual that these people are going on and on about it?

To be in this moment is to neither be in your past nor in your future. To not be in your past, is to be free from resentments, bitterness, anger. To not be in the future is to be free from fear, worry and anxiety.

To be in this very moment, this very breath is to touch an expansive state of being, removed from the petty sense of self that the past and future can bind us to.

To make contact with this expansive spacious state of awareness is to make contact  with your true Self. To make contact with your true Self is to connect to an exalted sense of being that is more immense, sweeping and invincible than anything you can imagine.

That’s why all these teachers and masters are singing the praises of  ‘Being in the  moment, Being present.’

And yet, the challenge for most of us is to be in our own skin. Through years of  hard training we have encouraged our minds to be everywhere but here. Persuaded ourselves to constantly analyze the past and pressured ourselves to continuously plan the future. Persistently urged ourselves and others to scrutinize the past and project it into the future. Even though all of this is happening and being done in the PRESENT MOMENT. 

Because that’s the only place we can be : this moment. This moment right here is where life is, in it you have a  choice. Right now in this moment is where you can effect change positively or negatively, your choice.

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today. Nothing can ever be done in the past or in the future. This moment is all you have got. Don’t miss it !

Yesterday you were, tomorrow you will be, but only Here and Now You  Truly Are.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS