Theme of the week: The Seed of Omniscience
Classes Taught: 5
We continued our philosophy journey through the Yoga Sutras, moving into Sutra 1.25: tatra niratiśayaṁ sarvajña-bījam or “Therein lies the seed of unsurpassed omniscience.”
My plan had been to ask students to conduct the classes with eye masks, but I had new starters in each class, bar my Wednesday evening one, and it seemed unfair to ask new people to practice without their vision!
So my Wednesday 6pm gang were the only ones to experience 'blindfold yoga' and we had a lot of fun :)
Glimmers of the Week
Another wonderful Pause The Week session on Wednesday evening, talking about the Window of Tolerance. This week we are looking at the Buddhist concept of the near enemy.
A wonderful afternoon as Ebb and Flow, holding circle for a bride-to-be and her close friends. We knew it was going to be special, it surpassed all our expectations. You can book us for parties, celebrations and gatherings, too; see the Private Circles page for more details.
Readings, Resources and Inspiration
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda
The Secret Power of Yoga by Nischala Joy Devi
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
Two poems we read at the bridal blessing on Saturday, which I love.
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Robert Fulgham
All of what I really need to know about how to live,
and what to do, and how to be,
I learned in Kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain,
but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned…
Play fair.
Share everything..
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Give them to someone who feels sad.
Live a balanced life.
Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing
and dance and play and work every day.
Take a nap every afternoon.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup?
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows
how or why, but we are all like that.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world,
it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton
I know that love can be loud and jubilant…It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain at a festival and shouting “YOU ARE AMAZING” over the band. It’s introducing them to your colleagues at a work event and basking in pride as they make people laugh and make you look lovable just by dint of being loved by them.
It’s laughing until you wheeze.
It’s waking up in a country neither of you have been in before.
It’s skinny-dipping at dawn. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is yours.
It’s a big, beautiful, ebullient force of nature.
I also know that love is a pretty quiet thing.
It’s lying on the sofa together drinking coffee, talking about where you’re going to go that morning to drink more coffee. It’s folding down pages of books you think they’d find interesting.
It’s hanging up their laundry when they leave the house having moronically forgotten to take it out of the washing machine.
It’s saying ‘You’re safer here than in a car’ as they hyperventilate on an EasyJet flight to Dublin.
It’s the texts: ‘Hope your day goes well’, ‘How did today go?’, ‘Thinking of you today’ and ‘Picked up loo roll’.
I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up airbeds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport, or in a traffic jam.
Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.
Looking Ahead
This is the schedule for the coming week. You can book all classes online.
I wish you a truly wonderful week.
Namaste.
Vicki x
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