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Locality: Normanville, South Australia

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Address: 19 Ronald Street 5204 Normanville, SA, Australia

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19.01.2022 Pawanmuktasana The practice of asaan begins with the practise of a very simple series of physical movements which are known as pawanmuktasana. If I have to teac...h anyone yoga, I make them practise the pawanmuktasana series for a minimum period of one year before moving on to other asana. That is why I get very few yoga students and people call me only for lecture, not for teaching. Still, I feel, from a practical understanding of the yogic system, that these techniques of pawanmuktasana are of utmost importance because with this practice we actually meditate on each and every joint and part of the body. The performance of asana should not become a practice of movement where we tend to lose awareness of the body and identify with the pleasures of the body. Normally we tend to involve ourselves in the pleasures generated by the posture. We tend to identify with the movement that is being performed during asana practice, but movement is a superficial aspect of the asana. Creating a meditative state is the real aim of asana. Therefore I personally feel that pawanmuktasana has to be the most important group of postures in yoga. In pawanmuktasana we identify with each and every joint, each and every muscle and part of the body. You know a lot of research is being done, especially with plants, to see how they grow if you give them proper care and enough attention. Why can't we apply the same principle with our big toe? Why can't we give proper care and attention to our big toe so that the pranic flow in the big toe becomes active? When that happens the entire cellular structure of the big toe will undergo a transformation. You can try it with your right toe and compare it with your left toe after three months. Maybe you will see that your right toe is bigger and fatter than the left one! Awareness, relaxation and activation of the energy in the body is what we try to attain with the practice of postures. When the mind merges with the body, and they fuse into one entity, then that is known as enlightenment of the body. I am telling you this because this is the progression in yoga, it is not necessary that you do it today or tomorrow. I am trying to make it clear that one cannot isolate the body from the mind nor the mind from the body in the practice of yoga. Not only the awareness of the external parts, but also the awareness of the internal system has to develop. These internal systems are in stress and tension because of misuse and overuse, and this internal activity has to be regulated. Before this session you were practising yoga nidra where one aspect of practice was rotating the awareness from one part of the body to the next. That is just an example of how we have to train our mind to interact with the body. So, when we try to balance our annamaya kosha we are actually educating the mind, training the mind to realize the potential of the physical body. And after annamaya kosha comes manomaya kosha. Of course traditionally pranamaya kosha comes in between. Yoga Sadhana Panorama Vol. Two Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati

18.01.2022 Christmas Lillies, contented horsies and well camouflaged reptile (at least he thought so)in our drive at Normanville. we could all learn a thing or two with hi...s or her or ? stillness MEDITATION will continue Monday evenings arrive 6.15 to start 6.25pm till 7.30 or 7.45pm. Please eat early. Belly empty for at least 2 hours. Loose comfy clothes and no perfume please. No classes from 2nd. dec to 10th. December as I am away to improve knowledge and impart that knowledge when I return. DANCE MEDITATION 15th December 3.30 to 5.30 or 6pm. Plate to share after session. I hope to see all You regulars and non regulars, new and old, young and wise. Please advise your attendance. Limited numbers. Phone 0419851100. Cost $20 concession available.

17.01.2022 Another wonderful GFL completed in Melbourne. Thank you EVERYONE!!! Especially amazing assistants, Henry, Jake & Hester. And Production Team: Jo, Sarah & Charlo...tte. Couldn't do it without you. To my co-teacher Georgina Jahner (aka Geordie), HUGE respect and gratitude for once again another beautiful teaching ride together...!! I look forward to seeing many of you on a dance floor somewhere SOON!!!! Much love xox Liat. See more

16.01.2022 Hari Om When shall one begin to clean the house of the mind and lift those numerous veils. start simple and a little regular practice goes a long way. I warml...y welcome all regulars, novices and experimenters. ..I just hope we meet someday Love Julie - Annapoorna

15.01.2022 Yoga this week Thursday 6th Sunday 9th @ 9am Monday 10th Meditation 6.15pm... Saturday 15th December 3.30-5.30 SPECIAL DANCE MEDITAION Yes I came back early from Melbourne to see YOU

05.01.2022 YOGA DIGEST NORMANVILLE resumes yoga and meditation class timetable 1st November Thursday and sundays @ 9am - 10.30am... 5th November Meditation Mondays @ 6.15pm - 7.30pm No need to advise benefits of yoga and deep relaxation, concentration and meditation, when you can find out for yourself. Be your own scientist and come along to class or have a private session. 0419851100 Om shantihi Julie

05.01.2022 This little piece from my PhD is an illustration of what I learned from trying to write about dance. I always loved dancing, even if the only dance that I was d...oing at times was in my bedroom or kitchen. It was still my favourite practice and I took it seriously. But I had no idea how complex and potential dance is until I started writing about dance as a way of knowing in my doctoral thesis... Many of us dance for many different reasons... and they are all valuable. Maybe you will find some inspiration or motivation for your dance inquiry in my words below. If so, come dance with us Open Floor with Tamara Today (Friday) 3.30 - 4.30 pm at RMIT city campus (building 6, level 4, room 06) Tomorrow (Saturday) 5.15 - 7 pm in Prahran (The Space Arts and Dance Centre, 318 Chapel Street, Prahran). 'I dance to connect with whatever is present in my body-mind at any particular moment. Dance is my checking-in practice. Some people have long conversations with their friends, write journals, or take long walks to construct and reflect upon their understanding of the world. I dance to come to this understanding. I attune to my body and move it in any way it feels appropriate at a time. Sensing with my body in movement enables me to connect to a range of sensory, emotional, affective, cognitive, and imaginative information that forms my body-mind at any given time. By attuning to flows of visceral information, I began to create a map of my interior exteriority. I map all the ways my body moves to express a range of sensory information, feelings, and thoughts, about my daily reality, and to move beyond that reality. Each time I dance, this map is slightly different. I might feel different, have different thoughts and images as I dance, or move in a slightly different manner. However, some things persist. As many other dance practitioners, I intimately know places where my body cannot move, places where I am stuck. Those places where we feel so segmented that when we find ourselves in them it seems there is no way out. As the participants in this research have often made plain, dance is not all about ephemeral, transient movements. Some movements force themselves upon us over and over again. Some aggregations are difficult to move past. Over ten years of dancing different forms of dance as a form of inquiry, I have not moved past my sensitivity to belonging to a place. Each time I come across inquiry into belonging to a place or the ground we live on, a common theme in movement meditation practices, I find myself unable to move. My sensitivity to belonging, particularly to a place, is actually a complete inability to feel belonging to a place coupled with a sincere longing for it. It is a segmentation of conflicting feelings from being born at a place with a rather troubling history that went through a horrifying civil war during my teenage years, leading to a change of borders/national identities several times in subsequent years thus resulted in my confused sense of identity (among many other confusions). That conflict is a story in itself. The fact that my mixed family could not find a place in this conflict is another story. It was not an easy place to belong; its reverberations still inform the ways I experience myself, others and the world. It emerges in my dance every now and then, for example, when we explored grounding as a movement priciple during the first module of my Open Floor Teacher Training, and were asked to imagine the ground on which we belonged, I fell asleep. I was not tired nor unwell and yet I fell asleep on the floor of the room full of people dancing to reasonably loud music. This had never happened to me before. When I woke up, embarrassed by my lack of discipline and poor dedication to my training, my colleagues were deeply engaged in conversation about what this inquiry brought up for them. I had nothing to say. In my dreamy state, I was happy to just listen. This short excerpt speaks to transience, multiplicity and unavoidable segmentations of embodiment (and movement). It points to unpredictable and surprising moments of discovery that embodied methods, such as dance, afford. It perhaps also speaks about unpredictable relations through which a body is made. Women’s bodies, as I have argued earlier in this research, are often understood in terms of societal pressures toward certain performances of femininity. That short example from my dance inquiries, as well as this research more generally, aim to open up a discussion on the multiplicity of relations and capacities through which embodiment (and gender) is continually made and remade. My inability to feel belonging to a place still informs my dance, but not always. On most days I dance with flows of impulses and information that produce various effects. By allowing some of these impulses to express themselves, I create the space for new flows. In this way, my moving body is continuously reinventing itself (myself). Again, this is not to say that dancing body is all about flows of movement, or that dance is the only form that affords becoming. Dance, rather, makes becoming more tangible. Because a dancer is often more attuned to subtle processes of deterritorialisation, dance makes becoming more palpable. As a dancer, I also know places where my dance is way too familiar, where I express what I very well know about myself. I do my ‘thing’ but do not get to learn much about myself. At other times, I learn so much about myself, others and the world that I become different to myself. Flows of movement are, like flows of life, unpredictable.'

02.01.2022 It is said that the hum from those busy bees is softish and mellow and tranquil.

01.01.2022 AT YOGA DIGEST 19 Ronald street Normanville Last Monday meditation for October, however we can meet together in November and discover some hidden secrets and potential perhaps