Yoga and Daily Life

• 9 mei 2023

An Anusara Yoga Workshop.

Anusara yoga has 3 main elements:

1. Non-dual Tantra philosophy that asks, after experiencing the greatness of the Heart in our practices, how can we also experience this in daily life?
2. Universal Principles of Alignment that connect body, mind, and Heart
3. Emphasis on Community – on living our yoga in daily life

We talk about yoga “off the mat”, but what is that?  This is the specialty of nondual Tantra.  We will begin with a discussion about a few sutras from the great Tantric text, the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam or “Heart of Recognition”.  They provide the foundation for various “moment-to-moment awareness” practices, which we can do at any moment in life.

Then we have our Anusara Yoga practice!  It will be an active, energetic, full-spectrum 90-minute asana practice followed by a group meditation.  We will also learn a mantra japa practice, the famous 5-syllable mantra of Namah Shivaya, which draws the great feeling that we have in our yoga practices to the surface of life and prepares us for meditation.