More Homework!
Homework for Weekend 6
Continue exploring your emotional energies in life: ups, downs and neutrals. Begin to notice the many voices wired into those emotions; I want, I need, me – me – me, mine – mine – mine. What are these creations of mind calling themselves “I” and claiming me and mine? The word ego is a popular one to describe the needy voices, but we need to look more deeply into the types of energies that lead to the creation of these separate selves. Connect this to the attachment process and your attachment profile. There is a link in the summary to weekend 5 posted on the blog page. By the way, I periodically edit/update these summaries, so be sure to check back from time to time. I will link them to this page to make it easier to find them.
Sutras: Yamas and Niyamas: II-30 – II-45
Breathing: Viloma I and II as described in notesAsana: connect your whole life to the poses
Homework for Weekend 5 (Summary of 5)
We will be looking at emotions, so for sutras work, lets go right to II-7 and II-8, raga and dvesa, our likes and dislikes. Follow how your emotional energies are manipulated by these. Continue abhyasa and vairagyam as well, moving the energies around as necessary. Master all material from the first 4 sessions. (Just kidding!) But do keep practicing, observing your life unfolding and come up with questions. Outside reading can include sections from ‘Emotional Intelligence‘ by Dan Goleman, and ‘The Developing Mind’ by Dan Siegel. And practice the mantras! We have many more to get to.
Homework for Weekend 4 (Summary of 4)
Read the reviews of the first three weekends on the blog page and let me know if I forgot anything. Also, are there questions from these weekends to look into?
Keep practicing. Find the sutras in your asana practice. Work with the mantras. Find questions that deeply engage you.
Homework for Weekend 3 (Summary of 3)
Continue to explore the deep front line in all poses. Pay special attention to the feet and lower legs.
Keep practicing the heart/torus meditation and the hub of awareness meditation.
Find more sutras that you can get ‘into’ tangibly, not just intellectually.
Homework for Weekend 2:
The Deep Front Line: find this in your inner perceptions. Track from soles of feet to hands. Find the diaphragm as well.
Yoga Sutras: Find one or two that intrigue or puzzle you. Relate to energy as: too much/too little/just right! Connect to your on-going emotional state and integrate into sustaining emotional equilibrium (samatvam).
Finally, read the blog on Yoga and the Torus, focusing on the image of the heart as a center of a toroidal field. Building this will be our root meditation going forward and the seeding of our studies in embryology which we will develop in more detail later in the year.
Before the first weekend…
Read Adyashanti’s ” The Way of Liberation
Write a list of possible goals you would like to accomplish in the course.
Keep practicing at home. Bring Questions.
Read Samyama in Asana, Parts 1 and 2
Please rate the following possible topics for deeper exploration and e-mail me your list:
Very Important for my Practice: Somewhat Important: Not Very Important
1. Yoga Sutras
2. Bhagavad Gita
3. Neuroscience
4. Sacred Geometry
5. Embryology/Physiology
6. Anatomy/Kinesiology
7. Anything Else