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The Innocent Monkey and the Generous Pig

Locality: Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 429 413 049

Address: 155 Southern Road 3081 Heidelberg, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.innocentgenerous.com.au

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24.01.2022 Hi Team I’m teaching Johannes’s 10 am class tomorrow 10 - 12 noon. I’m back safely from Japan. Pranayama starts Monday at 8am at DOL. 10 am asana class free if you come to Pranayama. Back teaching 10 - 12 Wednesdays too... Bryan See more

19.01.2022 The first Rule of Yoga

14.01.2022 New workshop coming up

14.01.2022 First Rule of Yoga

12.01.2022 Beautiful kirtan last night

11.01.2022 What's the first rule of yoga? Well everybody knows it's Ahimsa! What - another Sanskrit term? Yeah well it means non violence.... Actually I think that's a little rough... More like DO NO HARM! in thought and deed! Boy, humans could do with more of that! If we lived by this simple ethical rule we would all be pretty good. Anyway why is it better to do no harm? Well basically it carries less karma. If you do something good we forget it fairly quickly but if we do something unethical then there is all sorts of trouble associated with it. Yoga ideas are pretty useful really

10.01.2022 Patanjali yoga in a nut-shell Patanjali yoga Is a system for removing unhappiness from life and ultimately finding permanent peace. Based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (actually called Patanjala Yoga Darsana). Often referred to as Raja Yoga. Actually covers all forms of Yoga: Hatha, Mantra and Laya, ...Continue reading

02.01.2022 What's Yoga all about anyway? Yoga is a system for improving our lives. Well you could say that about a lot of things... It leads to enlightenment...... Well who needs that? We're pretty smart anyway... Anyway Buddhism is supposed to lead to enlightenment. Can't we do that when we get old? Actually Buddhism and Yoga are based on another system called Samkhya (ask mister Goggle - if you can believe in him). Yoga is actually older than Buddhism. The Yoga Sutras have a lot of useful things to say about life and how to live it. So what? Who wants to go to a sweaty exercise class? Anyway the Sutras are written in some ancient language and who can understand them anyway... Actually Yoga isn't really about exercise it's more of a mental thing - not that many people seem to know about that. And the Sutras are not that hard to understand. They are certainly very practical and logical. Oh yeah? were did you get that? Well its a system and takes a bit to get your head around. There are less than a couple of hundred of them - surely we can cope with that. There are heaps of material available about them. Mind you it takes a bit to get the bottom of them. But we are smart people anyway... Yoga is based on two simple principles that everyone possesses. 1. We have memory - and everything we do, say, think and feel gets stored away. These can be positive and negative. Generally the negative ones bug us. Often quite a bit. 2. We have basically three states of mind (probably quite a few more - but I generalise). The first state is an extremely busy mind. kind of over active. Even verging on anxiety. The second is calm and clear and relatively rational. The third is dull, sluggish and fixed or patterned. Its pretty clear that the second state is the one we would like to have more of. So there you go. But I don't understand? Sorry. I thought you got it already. The idea is that yoga is supposed to make you feel more clear, calm and rational. This is what gets stored away and gradually as you store more of this clear, calm state away (yes with our memory) it tends to push the negative memories away. It doesn't remove them - you still have to work on them - but they can take a back seat. So over a period of time the negative thoughts have less effect on our lives. That is what yoga practice is all about. Holding onto and increasing that calm, clear, rational state. So I can forget the sweaty exercise classes? Well there are a lot of useful things about exercise but generally they tend to put us into the busy state... If you can manage to keep calm clear and rational that'll work. Good luck!