A child, smiling and clear, always open to new experiences, clean intention and a beginners mind. Everything is about your Spiritual Qualification and Ownership; Adhikara.
Adhikara, which literally means “authority and ownership” and is an important Sanskrit term that will help us better understand Hinduism, or any other religion. A person in an advanced Yoga class, for example, who has taken previous Yoga courses, has the adhikara to be in the advanced class. That person is qualified to be in the advanced class. Someone who has not taken Yoga before has no adhikara to be in a graduate class. We could translate adhikara as “qualification,” which is implied, but more than qualification, the term suggests ownership. This means, in the case of Yoga for example, that the person at the advanced level has the right to interpret, apply and teach Yoga.
Every person has their own Adhikara, a level of studentship and the relationship to their knowledge. You own your responsibility of the way you “open up” and the way you experience. Use your Child and beginners mind, to open up the space element. Be mindful, to listen and to feel. We all have an essence of Spiritual accomplishment.
How can you use your Adhikara?
See you on the yogamat this week with a beginners mind and to open up!
Once upon a time… there was a movie called “Kronjuvelerna”. According to this movie we have three keys. One for happiness, one for joy, one for love and the third you have to discover your self.
To open up your energy’s and get the Kundalini power to circulate through Ida, Pingala and Sushumna nadi. To get the opposite power to meet, the Shakti meets Shiva. It is not only about finding the keys, also about using them, and to open up.
Your Chakra power brings health and insight. The Tantra philosophy means that if you tissue opposite energy’s you will fully live your life. To use the Heart Chakra (Anahata) you might discover the easiest way to open up, to use unconditional love. According to “Kronjuvelerna” you need a heart of gold.
To live fully in this life by using a heart of gold and you might find a higher proposal, and you also might find the third key, the key to heaven.
“Learn to live in a way to become friend with death. I believe tralalala!
~ Astrid Lindgren
According the method of Franklin, a dancer from Switzerland, you can work with inner pictures, to visualize pictures within. To get your brain to communicate with the rest of the body and you will receive better attitude, better consciousness. Better consciousness might help your insight to reach more knowledge; knowledge about understanding.
The tree upper Chakra; the throat Chakra (Visudha), the third eye Chakra (Ajna) and the crown Chakra (Sahasrara) says open up your key to understanding. Like Vedanta yoga; does self-enquiry, find Knowledge through insight. The tree upper Chakra says belongs to your soul. And when getting in touch with the insight you will reach higher spiritual levels. Levels of deep understanding about reality and the world around you. The understanding that your existence have higher senses. Directly contemplating on the center of consciousness, seeking to experientially go into the heart of the question, “Who am I”?
Find the key – get the link – everything connect.
See you on the yogamat, this week, a trip in your insight…
“You were born an original. Do not die a copy”
~ John Mason
Sometimes during my school year I found it difficult to be myself. Who was I? Should I be like the others or could I be the original me?
I think many people have had these thoughts, anytime during lifetime. There are no simple answers but the only way I feel is that I can be much more happier and balanced if I am satisfied with myself and become conscious of reaching the motto; be who I am. This week we will pass 11.11.11 and according to Kundaliniyoga, we close the Pisces (fiskens) turbulent era and we will get into the Aquarian Age (vattumannen). This age will become more conscious and loving time on earth. I like that thought!
Through more experience, openness and tolerance we will find more love by the motto “to be”. You are already everything you need. You are unique as a human being. Be who you are – be the original…
The nature is amazing and beautiful! Yesterday when I was riding my bike the wind grabbed me and I felt so alive, when I was riding towards the destination it was up wind but with my focus and my patience thoughts it became not that bad, and on the way back home it was down wind and I felt really free and happy. The wind became a life subject in my mind.
To feel alive though the daily life sometimes you need both up wind and down wind, to have faith in your decisions to perceive joy. Let your inner wind support you and you might feel more alive and total liberation.
“A liberated person can come into the world and be useful to it but not affected by it”
Yoga Sutra II:18
See you on the mat this week – a week with wind and life in our minds!
Every time I join a workshop or a masterclass with an experienced yoga teacher I realize yoga is amazing and unique. You can always learn something new every time you do a yoga practice, experience something new about your asana (position) but also experience something new about yourself. A few days ago I had the opportunity to connect in a masterclass with Jordan Bloom. He was talking about tendencies; to face the tendencies and even get to know the tendencies.
What is your ambition with life? What is your proposal with yoga? What is your tendency?
Perhaps you have something in your life that does not work; your health, your work, your training, your relationship. It is time to try something new, modifikation, to change the situation.
To change you will need carriage and patience, it will take time. But you will get surprised and pleased about the happy feeling and the joy you will attain. Next time we will meet on the yogamat feel you tendencies, get more sensitive and you might surprise yourself with new experiences. You have own reposibility – try something new!
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path”
~ Buddha
To feel safe. What does this word mean to you? Safe, safeness or security.
I have been thinking about this word and its meaning. In our country we really live in a safe spot, we have food, drinking water and most people have a home and a house. But anyway people complain, about the weather, about their home, about their partner/friend. Sometimes I get so upset when people around me don’t see the beauty in our secure country. And it is also about showing compassion to the world, to others who don’t have a safe or free life.
For me safeness means freedom, and freedom is a state of independence. It is also a state of calmness and security. Like if you feel like home wherever you are, you are home and secure in your own body. To dare the true love; to gain love and to give love. That is the real state of Safeness.
In Yoga Sutra of Patanjali safeness is about finding your inner secure feeling by using meditation or/and Yoga as a path.
When you read about safeness in a dictionary it also says assurance, what does assurance mean to you? Well it might mean your grounding to feel free. It might mean your well being. But you can only set up your own assurance, no one will be able to get you rooted and free, only you have to find it yourself.
And You will!
I have experienced a nice Bodybalance class, and I realized my breath was helping me true the whole class. Air and the breath gave me energy when I most needed it. Wow, I am so happy I have found my breath; my breath helps wherever I am and wherever I go. It support me through life. Since I started do Yoga I have found my inhale and exhale, sometimes when I meditate the breath kind of scares me even if it is a wonderful feeling. My breath takes me to a deeper level of my consciousness. The breath is so powerful, breath is life. You can almost control everything with your breath. My breath supports me every moment, to be aware, to be calm, to get energy and to feel alive.
“When you breathe in, the air enters your body and calms all the cells of your body. At the same time, each cell of your mind also becomes more peaceful”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Air Element (Vayu) in the body refers to both the breath and creating space in the body. The breath is the basis of all yoga, since without breath; yoga (or life, for that matter) does not exist. Air is what carries the vital energy or “prana” (“chi” in Chinese philosophy) throughout the body and the universe. It is the essence of all life and can be focused on in yoga practice by literally bringing space or air into specific areas of the body in the postures (such as increasing the spaces between the vertebrae of the spine…lengthening). Pranayama, or breath control, always requires a mindful awareness and focus on the breath. To practice breathing techniques is to initiate changes in the psychological, physical, neural and cerebral areas, increasing memory and creativity. It will strengthen your willpower and steady your mind. Air is the element representing the Heart Chakra, the area for love and life…
A very good book about our energies is “Eastern body, Western mind”. That book helped me a lot finding my identity, my truth. But also finding easiness with my acting and feeling against other living beings. The book describes the third Chakra as “the brain for our body”. To activate this area it might become easier for you to make action, to create a will of power and heat. It is the Fire (Agni) Element representing the third, Solar Plexus Chakra, right above the navel. The heat (Agni) strengthens your self-confidence and self-realisation.
Fire (Agni) Element in the body refers to the internal warmth and heat that is generated in certain postures, especially standing postures, and provides the energy and “will” to go on even when we want to quit. It is the source of light and creates and destroys, symbolizing the soul in many beliefs. In our yoga practice, fire is of particular focus in standing postures and in our Vinyasa flows, or in any posture where we wish to generate heat, power and resolve.
Sometimes your mental focus and your breath may need to be placed in that specific area around your third Chakra to generate heat in that area and to feel the willing to act, getting rid of the fear and to just feel good.
A Yoga teacher in Anusara use to say “dance with the divine”. To let the yoga be like a dance, to open the heart and be one with the yoga and the divine. Compare to if a partner will bring you up on the dance floor and you will just follow his movement and you might feel you become one with his steps. You will dance with the flow. The same with the water element, in nature water are always in movement, vibrate and circulate.
The Water Element (Apah, Jala) in the body refers to the water that flows through our veins, or the circulatory system in the body. Health is only possible as the water element remains flowing in the body. While in our yoga postures (asanas) we may need to consciously increase the flow of blood into a particular area of the body. Sometimes the practice also takes on a flowing action, with one movement fluidly moving into the next. Water has almost magical properties and is essential to life (our bodies are 70% water), with incredible healing and cleansing powers. It is a universal symbol for the soul and is the element representing the second Chakra, the area where new life is generating.
Water gives purity and balance. In Yoga postures (asanas) you improve better blood circulation, lower the blood pressure and strengthen your heart. Feel your sensations. Dance with the flow.
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