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yoga internal and external

kim on 4:04 pm November 10th, 2006 / 2 Comments »

after yesterday’s post, i decided it’s a good idea to distinguish in these posts between the yoga of the internal world, and that of the external experience. discussions on politics, society, living in dc or wherever, is an exploration of yoga, the uniting of the lower and higher selves, outside of us. the yoga that takes place in the classroom, on your own mat, and, inside you in any situation really, is an exploration of the inner world of yoga.

i believe we will see that the two are the same, but depending on who and where you are spiritually, physically, and emotionally, you might be more interested in one or the other.

in other news, following are good poses for a hangover:

1) child’s pose, laying on several blankets to support the belly and increase attention to breath in that area

2) pigeon pose, ditto on blankets

3) exhaling through mouth. it takes the heat out of the system and, as i’ve been taught, 70% of the body’s toxicity (i want to do more research on this because i’ve learned this 70% business in the yoga world but haven’t seen it anywhere else).

4) a lot of corpse pose, savasana

allegedly

kim on 11:33 pm October 27th, 2006 / 2 Comments »

Physicians until the 15th century had to also be astrologers before they could practice medicine.  astroprofile.com.

random v organized thought

kim on 5:52 pm October 27th, 2006 / 5 Comments »

so today a friend suggested i post about the word “guru,” since a google search on “rove guru” leads you to top media sites calling karl rove “bush’s guru,” “chief political guru,” “key political guru.” a discussion on the definition of guru would be awesome.

but i don’t want to do that today. my energy is instead focused today on planting hyacinth, tulip, and daffodil bulbs in my front yard, and right now i’m avoiding doing it (not just because it’s raining but) by posting more random thoughts to keep yogibeer, ommm, laughing lotus, and, now, yogadawg, engaged in this blossoming blog.

first: i like the concept that everything is connected. should that be on the back of boundless yoga tshirts?

second: to the extent everything is connected, then every action effects (a) result. that means, for example, every sound i utter is out there somewhere until it hits a wall or a tree or something strong enough to absorb it. and then what? i think it’s still there, except hidden in the tree or the wall or the pavement. so everything i say comes back to me. does that mean i should curse less (because if so, damn, that’s going to be hard)? this makes me want to understand the words “connect” and “connection.”

third: the thing i like most about yoga is that different from other philosophical disciplines, it is an exploration of the body’s thought patterns via feeling those patterns in the body. this is my undersanding of gounding, and it means you have to experience it to understand it. moving the body around shakes shit out of it, leaving you feeling cleaner and clearer. the thing i disliked about philosophy classes in college was that all we did was sit around and talk and then write and then read and then write and talk some more.

fourth: my friend, jj gormley, suggested that women are first interested in yoga through its movement portion, asana (or the poses, yogibeer), and that men are first interested in yoga through meditation. i love that idea because i think it’s connected to the difference between men’s and women’s corpus colossums (is the real latin plural “colossi?”)