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25.01.2022 https://www.amanecurated.com/awakened-relationships-sydney

24.01.2022 BEFRIENDING YOUR MIND THROUGH MEDITATION Many people go to war with their thinking mind without realizing it which can cause a great amount of suffering for... themselves and others. Adyashanti offers a fresh perspective on how meditation can foster a new relationship with your mind. By bringing greater awareness to your thinking, and actually realizing the nature of thought, you can befriend your mind. Video Excerpted from The Rise of Self-Consciousness: https://bit.ly/2G5GgVD Quotes from this Video: If you are new to meditation, often one of the things that is disturbing about it is how chatty your mind is. And even more disturbing than that, initially, there’s really nothing you can do about it. Minds are like hammers that keep banging on things, even when there is nothing to construct. It is your mind trying to impose order on your experience. You can talk yourself into misery in a moment.

21.01.2022 The place of patience and persistence in practice As our online course 'Foundations of Tantrik Yoga' gains more students, we are enjoying each and every sto...ry coming in. We love to hear of the new shifts and incredible breakthroughs but we also love to hear from those of you who are coming up against real obstacles and continuing in spite of them. Running into difficulty in these practices is common and the beauty lies in your ability to continue on. Dimitri is one such example in his simple yet, we'll bet, widely relatable review. "This one is hard for me. I will keep at it." Thank you Dimitri for your honesty and willingness to keep at it. We see and admire each of you for your continued interest and effort in this course. Join our online course community at https://buff.ly/3bYEm9I and dive into important foundational Tantrik Yoga teachings and practices along the way.

20.01.2022 We need a vision, we need purpose, meaning and direction, it is essential for our health. It benefits the spleen and lung which strengthens immunity and boosts ...vitality (via the five element cycle). Don’t give up on your dreams now no matter what. Avoid buying into negativity and bitterness (this comes from liver chi stagnation), keep chi flowing and fight for positivity. While the old yang overload lifestyle (that was creating an epidemic of lifestyle disease worse than any virus) is on Pause, let’s get ready to hit Play on a new way of working and living and being with each other. ... @lebenfitz #economicdevelopment #brightfutureahead #strongspirit See more

20.01.2022 THE ENIGMA OF CHANGE Beneath the ever-changing states of consciousness in our daily lives, there is an unchanging awareness that is actually the source of all c...hange. Adyashanti invites us to see how this awareness is present when we stop trying to control the dynamic quality of experience. Excerpted from Aug 10, 2020 Retreat Talk, One Mind: https://bit.ly/39WUVUM Quotes from this Video: We’re forever looking for a different state than the current one that’s happening, and it obscures from us what’s transcendent of all the states of consciousness.’ Human beings are very addicted to manipulating our states of consciousness. In the midst of all this change, there’s something that’s not changing. Within all the changing states of consciousness, there is the consciousness that notices all those changes.

19.01.2022 FACETS OF UNITY Experiencing the Interconnectedness at the Heart of Reality 4-Week Live Online Course: https://bit.ly/2QbaL2W Registration ends tomorrow!... Join Adyashanti for this 4-week online course as we dive deeply into the heart of reality and the intimate interconnectedness of our true nature. Through talks, Q&A, and daily practices, we will explore the many facets of unity that can act as doorways to a deeper experience and realization of the essential interconnectedness of our true nature. Live Broadcast Dates: Wednesdays, September 9, 16, 23, 30 6-8 pm Pacific Time ~ Replays Available! Registration Includes: 4 Live 2-hour Video Broadcasts with Adyashantithat include talks as well his responses to selected emailed questions. Video Replaysposted within 2 days after each live broadcast to watch at your convenience any time during the course. No need to worry if you miss a broadcast. Session Notesto help you remember and integrate the teachings, which are posted within 2 days after each live broadcast. 3 Video Exercisesto apply each week between the live sessions. MP3s of all the contentdownloadable to your computer so you can revisit the teachings at your convenience. Access to course materials for 60 days after the course ends. (Audio downloads are yours to keep.) For complete details or to register, visit: https://bit.ly/2QbaL2W

17.01.2022 "Real spiritualityspirituality beyond mere beliefbegins when we start to call our life into question." ~ Adyashanti The Heart of Spiritual Practice... http://bit.ly/2GUCOzc See more

17.01.2022 ... I promise you that plumbing the depths of your being is an unparalleled adventure. I wish you well on the journey. From the Ram Dass archives #lovingramdass #ramdass

16.01.2022 [*] Alchemical Stretching: *Constriction* modifier A lot of the postures used in the alchemical stretching syllabus have multiple ‘modifiers’ occurring simulta...neously. There is stretch receptor work [obviously]: most of the exercises also incorporate deep pressure and proprioceptive mudras - as well as the general ‘sea of proprioception’ principle of this syllabus. One that I have not spoken of yet is: . Yes; as in like the boa constrictor. And just like the boa or pythonic serpent, this involves not just ambient pressure and physical contact but a deliberate *constriction* that must be applied in a way that is different in intention and application than similar looking postures in wresting/grappling [though these make excellent co-studies and develop preliminary qualities]. Utilisation of constriction, proprioceptive mudras and spontaneous vocalisation to work the visceral layer and release bound resources is an important step in the forging of the body alchemical [within Physical Alchemy, at least]. Shown in the videos are two different examples of the constriction modifier to the Bridge Posture. The one I am applying to F and Z is a more potent technique: but I am significantly taller and have a much larger wingspan than the ladies. They have much less diameter to constrict around in the trunk and abdomen. Not all techniques work well for all body shapes. Again - what you hear are spontaneous, organically uncontrived vocal expressions that are one hallmark of contacting the visceral layer in alchemical stretching. If people try to artificially produce this it does not do the same thing. The body must be enticed to sing its own unique song [on any given day]. Obviously this is not beginners material - a lot of preparatory work on the body is need to use the bridge posture in this manner - then again: Life is too short for domesticated stretching. Systematic preparation of the body and then application of Thorian-force alchemical stretching methods so energy can be spend accomplishing other physical qualities [ftw; IMHO]. [DW] Edit: second two videos are posted in the comments of this post. Facebook would only allow the attaching of one video to the post.

15.01.2022 YOUR BODY IS YOUR LIFELONG TEMPLE As a cardiologist, I spend enormous amounts of time counseling patients about lifestyle changes. This is because cardiovascul...ar disease as well as most other chronic illnesses are the result of lifestyle. Surgeries and procedures help tremendously in acute settings; however, studies have shown again and again that there is no substitute for lifestyle changes (and medications) in preventing illness as well as events such as heart attacks, strokes and repeated procedures. As a yogini, my focus remains on changing the inner substance of being that then manifests in the outer in terms of lifestyle changes, disease, health and wellness. No amount of counseling works in many of my patients, whether it is about quitting smoking, changing their diet or exercising more. It is not that they do not understand the benefits of such changes; often, they know more about the damaging effects of their habits than those that do not struggle with them. Yet, there is inner resistance to change in the form of excuses, mental or intellectual reasoning to keep up their non serving patterns, or the emotional seduction of the habit that is extremely difficult to overcome by sheer will alone. Some make changes driven by will and succeed for short periods of time, only to fall back into the comfort zone of the ingrained habits. Yet, some seem to suddenly wake up one day for no particular reason and find they have undergone an internal shift. Within a very short period of time thereafter, the specific change they have been struggling with seems to occur all on its own. They quit smoking once and for all, take up exercising, lose and maintain a lower weight, change their diet for good, and report feeling great overall. Such miraculous transformations are delightful to observe and share in and are the true rewards of my vocation. These observations have proven to me time and again that all meaningful changes must necessarily come from within. Interestingly, dietary suggestions of yoga are similar to those for prevention and management of chronic illness as well. In yoga, every aspect of life is included in the practice. This involves how we talk and think, interact with others, express our emotions, go about our daily business, eat, sleep, maintain intimate and other relationships, etc no aspect of life (seen or unseen by others) is excluded. Thus, when it comes to food, the emphasis is not only on what we eat but how we treat and prepare the food and its overall significance in a yogi’s life. While food has become the tool for celebration and grief alike, this is not so for a yogi. As with all other aspects, food is another vehicle through which the yogi finds the calm, inner stillness behind the veils of thought, personality, emotions and conditioning. Thus, the preparation and consumption of food is aimed for this higher purpose only. Living this way and aligned with this small still voice, lifestyle choices arise automatically to support health and well-being. The need for external guidelines falls away when the wisdom of the still center is listened and surrendered to. A word of caution is necessary here. Many spiritual aspirants will assert that because inner wisdom trumps in choices, they need no external guidelines or rules. To the guideline of vegetarianism for example, some may vehemently quote the example that the Buddha ate meat. Yes, this may be true. But the point here is this if one is already a Buddha, there is nothing more to discuss. Until we get there however, guidelines are helpful. At various stages of yoga sadhana, we may become highly sensitive to various foods where they affect the ability to dive deep within. At a very advanced stage of sadhana, the yogi becomes one with the entire cosmos. What he/she eats is not seen to be different or other than himself/herself. At this stage, he/she has the ability to consume anything and remain unaffected. The penchant to fool ourselves that we are already there is merely the demonstration of the mind’s power over us to prevent us from making a meaningful change and that of our slavery to the mind’s pull. It must be emphasized that (with very few and rare exceptions), it takes months/years of dedicated practice to arrive at the still center and to be directed by this higher wisdom. Thus, the first obstacle in sadhana is the belief we are more advanced than we actually are. {Excepted from the KavithaMD blog https://kavithamd.com/eating-for-yoga-and-for-health-part-i/} #HeartofWellness #SacredFire #DigestiveFire #Agni #KavithaMD #IntegralWellness #HoW #Health #Healing #EssentialBooks #Yoga #Lifestyle #Discipline #Wellness

13.01.2022 GUIDED MEDITATION: ATTENDING TO THE ESSENTIAL Have you noticed how awareness is always and continually allowing everything to be as it is? In this guided medita...tion, Adyashanti explores the power of non-interference, and how your meditation experience can unfold organically without any interference from your mind. He shows how you can bring attention to the essential ground of consciousness, from which all experiences arise and pass away. Excerpted from Tahoe Silent Retreat Vol. 75 ~ Meditations: https://bit.ly/2St3fCL Quotes from this Video: The essence of meditation is non-interferenceletting your entire experience of being unfold as it is and not willfully interfering with it. In meditation, we are really attending to the essential. And we attend to the essential most wisely just by allowing our experience to be whatever it is. You might notice that the deeper ground of awareness is always and continually in a state of allowing everything to be. This deep sense of allowing is not something that strictly speaking we do, it’s something that we notice is innate to this deeper ground of consciousness or awareness. The essential always transcends all of experience.

12.01.2022 "Just center yourself in silence for a moment. Instead of waiting for something to happen, flip it just slightly and just be in it. Are you really here or ar...e you just waiting for the next thing? It’s interesting to see where we are in relation to time; whether we’re always just between what just happened and what happens next, or whether we can just be here now. So, let’s just find our way to be here together. If you’re feeling agitated, just notice the agitation. If you’re warm, be warm. If you’re cold, be cold. If you’re overly full, be overly full. Be it, whatever it is, but put it all in the context of a quiet space, because there’s a secret in that, and it’s worth playing with it. That there’s a place that we can be inside of ourselves, inside of the universe, in which and from which we can appreciate the delight in life. Where we can still have equanimity, and quality of presence, and the quietness of peace. It’s something I’ve been cultivating for 45 years now. Just imagine a mandala or a flower and think about the center of the flower and then all the petals that come out from the center and think of the center of the flower as absolutely still, and think of all of the petals as moving, and energy, and change, but the center is still. Where is your center?" - Ram Dass Photo by @jonathanperugia See more

11.01.2022 Hello friends! So, I'm running about 6 months late to the Covid party after having a baby and kind of just pulling everything back in to focus on that, but here... I am finally offering some online training, in the form of a weekly zoom class. (Links in the comments below) EDIT: you don't have to sign up for all four classes, these will be ongoing and you're welcome to just sign up for a single class anytime, just choose a date in the ticketing link. Everyone's welcome, they will be informal, follow-along classes without too much theory or verbal waffle on my part (there'll be a bit more of that in some upcoming courses), in which we will work through some of the basic practices associated with the "evolutionary anatomy" and "animal body" stuff that I like. Lots of nice waves and circles, soft smooth strength and body intelligence, getting into all the deep forgotten areas to wake up the animal spine and all that, with a basic whole-body session and different variations each week. I've done the tickets through eventbrite, which I've used before but never for international purchases so please let me know if you'd like to join but the ticket purchase doesn't work. It's happening on Sunday mornings, (AEDT Sydney time), but the zoom session will be recorded so people in different time zones who miss the live can still get access to the session. (photo by my dear friend and amazing artist Heike Qualitz, of one of the camp goannas from our retreats in Araluen)

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07.01.2022 "I would have paid $10,000 for this, but that would not be enough because this has changed my life. As a clinical psychologist my days can be very stressful. Th...ere is a stillness inside me now, and what I am really amazed by is the peace lasts." - Matthew Do you want to experience the incredible effects of the Wim Hof Method yourself? Great news! I’ve created a FREE video course where I’ll teach you the 3 pillars of the Wim Hof Method: breathing, cold therapy & commitment. I'll see you in class! https://www.wimhofmethod.com/free-mini-class With Love, Wim PS: To support the ever-growing community of Hoffers around the globe, the Mini Class has subtitles for the following languages; EN, NL, DE, FR, ES and PT.

03.01.2022 GUIDED MEDITATION: THE INVITATION OF MEDITATION What is always and already present within every moment of existence? Adyashanti guides you to explore the awaren...ess that is there before you even try to be aware. By switching your focus from the content to the context of your experience, a vast open spaciousness is revealed to you. Excerpted from Silent Retreat Vol. 65 ~ Talks(ID #736): https://bit.ly/2dDIRf8 Quotes from this Video: The invitation of meditation is to take the one seatto be fully open, fully willing to experience whatever is happeningto completely show up. Awareness is there before you even try to be aware. Notice that background quiet. Instead of focusing attention on some object of awareness, relax and open attention to the context, in which all experience arises and passes away.

02.01.2022 How to improve your energy and breathing by smoothly circling your shoulders and hips: Here I describe how the natural relaxing and energising diaphragmatic br...eathing we do when we regenerate ourselves during our sleep, can be enhanced in daily life by making smooth circular movements of our hips and shoulders. These movements not only encourage deeper more energising breathing without having to think of your breathing but they also improve your heart rate variability, which is great for your immune system. Here is an edited transcript of what I say on my video. EDITED & AMENDED TRANSCRIPT: I want to show you something really interesting about how the hip flexors relate to the diaphragm. "The diaphragm is a big dome-shaped muscle the under ribs. When the diaphragm contracts on inhalation, it moves downwards. When the diaphragm moves downwards, it flattens from a dome shape to a flat shape, and the volume of the chest expands. The mistake many people think is that when you breathe in it's going to make your chest or abdomen expand. But actually, it's when your abdomen expands or when your chest expands that air comes in. Air is either going to come in because you make your chest expand, or because you make your abdomen expand. The mistake people think is that when you breathe in, your chest will get bigger; or when you breathe in, your abdomen will get bigger. But actually, it's the opposite way around. When you make your volume expand, that will make air come in, provided the holes in your face, your nose and mouth, are open. Therefore, if all you did was go up and down with your hips and shoulders, say for six seconds up and six seconds down while staying completely relaxed, it will tend to make you breathe in with your diaphragm and your chest at the same time, which is a type of complete breathing. The diaphragm moving downwards is a diaphragmatic muscular contraction. When a muscle contracts, it tries to shorten, and it brings the muscle into a shortened state. When the diaphragm contracts, it goes from a dome shape to a flat shape. A contraction of a muscle will be stimulated if you pull on that muscle. When you go to the doctor and the doctor takes your knee and gives it a whack, you get a knee jerk reflex. Because a sudden contraction of any muscle with an external force like a hammer or one limb pulling another or one muscle pulling another will cause a stretch-reflex activation of the muscle you're talking about. It’s a mistake to think that when you straighten up you should breathe in. Let your breath happen by itself. If you synchronise relaxed breathing with movement, so that when you extend your hips you also lift your shoulders, then the hip extension will cause a diaphragmatic inhale, and shoulder elevation will cause a chest to inhale. The psoas muscle, which is a very stiff hip flexor in the modern world, because people sit on chairs for 5 to 15 hours a day, joins on with your diaphragm. The psoas goes from the inner thigh, across the front of the hip, and it joins onto all the lumbar vertebrae. Then it joins onto the region around the kidneys and the diaphragm. The diaphragm and the psoas are connected, which means that when the psoas, is activated or becomes tense, it will pull on your diaphragm. When you are sitting your psoas muscle, is much shorter. When you extend the hip, the psoas becomes lengthened. When the psoas becomes lengthened that causes a pulling action on your diaphragm. The diaphragm responds with a stretch-reflex activation and moves downwards. The end result is if you are standing up then you bend and straighten your knees, every time you bend the knees, the psoas muscle shortens. Whenever you straighten the knees and extend the hips, the psoas becomes lengthened and pulls on the diaphragm and gives a stretch-reflex activation. This means that whenever you straighten up land extend your hips, it tends to make you breathe in. Whenever you bend the knees and flex your hips, the diaphragm relaxes again, moves upwards, and you're more likely to exhale. Therefore, if all you did was go up and down with your hips and shoulders, say for six seconds up and six seconds down while staying completely relaxed, it will tend to make you breathe in with your diaphragm and your chest at the same time, which is a type of complete breathing. Your breaths don’t have to be full breaths and you don't want to do it too fast at first. Otherwise, you get the effects of over-tension and over-breathing (hyperventilation). Hyperventilation, or breathing more than normal, tends to cause: * reduced blood flow to the brain, * reduced transfer of oxygen from your lungs to your blood, * hyper-sensitisation of your nervous system, and * less oxygen to transfer from your red blood cells, your oxyhemoglobin, into your body cells. When there's less oxygen in your body cells, you're more prone to disease. Also, you have 19 times less energy when you've got no oxygen in the cells. When a sugar molecule, is converted to energy, it can be converted either with oxygen or without oxygen. If you convert one sugar molecule to energy without oxygen, you get two ‘energy units’ called ATP molecules. But if you convert, or metabolise, or burn sugar in the presence of oxygen, you get 38 molecules of ATP, 38 energy units, 19 times as much energy. It’s very important not to over-breathe. But it's also important to understand how the movements that we do affect our breathing. The very simple movement of going smoothly from bent legs with the front of your hips shortened to extended legs with your front hips extended and lengthened will stimulate a diaphragmatic breath. Also, the movements of lifting the shoulder blades up and down will cause the chest to expand. As you pull your shoulders up, it makes your chest lift up. Even better than just going up or down, make your joints move in circles. So rather than just bending and straightening your knees, on the way up, I lead from my lower back and I go backwards and up. So, I’m making a circle with my hips. And when I come up with my shoulders, I come up by moving my shoulders down and back, up and forward. So I'm making a circle with my shoulders, a circle with my hips. And even further, I can make circles with every other part of my body as well. When I'm doing this then, the breath becomes much more complete. This is a very simple exercise. My recommendation is to get off your chairs. Every hour get up off your chair you are on and do something really simple. Roll your shoulders, lift the hips up and down. These are really good exercises. Share good energy and loving information inside your body by making blood flow, while remaining calm. Cardiovascular work is the key to help your body stay good, but people overdo the ‘cardio’ and they don't do enough of the ‘vascular’. "It is important to get your blood vessels to transfer blood through the body without making your heart race. How do you do this? Well, first stop blocking the flow of blood * Tense less, stretch less, breathe less, think less, eat less. How do you encourage the movement of blood through the body? * Move actively. Use your own muscles. Don't use external forces. * Move from the core. Don't lock your core. * Breathe naturally as a base breath. Don't force your breath. Don't over-tense, don't over-breathe, and * Move fluidly and gracefully from one position to the next.