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.

JUNE 2018

Week I -  This week allow things to be what they are and embrace the moment.

Week II - This week trust yourself and live from that trust.

Week III - This week stay centered in your heart instead of your mind.

Week IV - This week find an oppurtunity to stretch your mind by choosing something different and opening to a new experience.

Dearest yogi & yogini,

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy & hatred

and those that create love, compassion, equanimity & joy.

Spirituality is a germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming  of the first group.”

-  Amit Ray

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. 



Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. 

He said, 'You've done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.  It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there and a verbal wound is just as bad as a physical one.'

Our words can have a  life wrecking or a life enriching effect. How we express ourselves can make or break someone’s day. We might not think that we have the power to do so and yet we all have known times when someone else’s words did the same for us.

Words we heard either completely uplifted our lives to new heights of joy & love or made us fall to bits & pieces shattering our heart. Yes, your words do have such power.

Every thought you have, every word you speak even the tone of your voice carries with it a resounding effect that can spread over years in someones life including your own and even into generations because what you created, created something else and so it passed on to effect others over time and space. Yes, your words do have such power.

Before you speak today consider your intention, keep in mind the energy and tone you want to bring to the other person and choose your words responsibly because every seed that you plant today will create the flowers of tomorrow.

As Uncle Ben said to spiderman “With great power, comes great responsibility.”