Miami Vedic Center

It would be logical to ask the question then why don’t we all just come into Mysore class at 6am and like good meditators just sit still for two hours? The answer: because no one is going to show up to class! We are universally so restless, to merely sit is to invite the opposite of stillness and lucidity. One of the reasons having an experience of yoga is so rare is that yoga only comes to us when we become absolutely still.

So we move and take advantage of our restlessness, but we don’t lose sight of the prize of nirodha, cessation of activity. We become dynamic and then find stillness we purposely move and then stop that movement on purpose. We intentionally and vigorously activate the body and the mind, and then we go into complete rest, total inertia. Through repeatedly embracing activity eventually we come to embrace stillness, and for many of us more stubborn customers this process can take a long, long, long time—read decades.

But keep practicing and the love of stillness will come and rival the love of being constantly active. Each of us will come to our own threshold, a tipping point where staying in the asana sounds better than flying or floating through the next transition-and it won't be because we are tired. Each of us will have had enough of movement, like a chocolatier eventually has enough of chocolate. Shavasana will become the best asana-YES! Perhaps you doubt me, but it will happen, Hari OM!
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🔥I will be teaching an online Mysore Foundations course this Oct and Nov.

🧞‍♀️This class is for students who want to focus on the foundations of their practice: Surya Namaskara, standing and seated postures, plus inversions.

🗓Class meets Tuesday, Wednesday, and every other Saturday from 8-9am EST

😎To apply email [email protected] with why you want to attend the course.

👉🏽 https://davidgarrigues.com/events/mysore-foundations-october-and-november .p8L1T1am.Qag7TxO4.dpbs
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