Protection 3: Intention Vectors

Intention:  The vector from you to what you are creating.

For example.  If you want an object, your intention is a vector that leads through time to you having the object.

Yoga: The vector that leads directly to the highest intention, Ishvara ईश्वर, the Supreme.   Total liberation, that all beings everywhere might be happy and Free.

It sounds pretty enough to put on a Hallmark card, but don't be fooled that this intention is anything other than a martial practice of Self defense.

For the practitioner many perils surround, things that distract you from your connection to Self, distractions from the vector of highest intention.

We can become distracted from our intention and spend weeks, or years, or lifetimes not remembering who we are and where we are going.

This happens.  I'm not making this up.

Until the fine day we release all false paradigm, there is the the possibility of awareness becoming dispersed in an unskillful way, trapped in attachments.... drawn away from the vector of your intention.


The Crowded Market

Its like if you've ever been a stranger walking through the medina in Tangier or some similar place.  As I walk many voices urge me this way and that.
"My Friend,My Friend"
"Over Here"
"Come here, look at this"
"Please, My Friend"
When I become confused by many vectors of intention shooting every direction around me like a laser light show, an arm appears to "Help me", and maybe another pulls from the other side.

Moments like this exist and in more subtle form too.

The Hustle

A good hustler can make you forget what your intention is in a situation.  He convinces you that his intention is your intention.

A hustler tries to draw your awareness away from what you want to create, in order to procure desired energy, an object, or outcome.  A skillful hustler plays your desires, fears, or need to stay within the bounds of some perceived paradigm, to guide you along the path he chooses.

In the larger crowded market of life this takes on an even more insidious form.  Many entities want your energy.  They will hustle you to get it.  They try to sell you something, be it a product, a belief system or an entire worldview.  Are you aware that you have been conditioned to see the work as a limited scope of possibility?  Are you aware that someone "profits" from this?

Our awareness sings as a frequency and and resonates with harmonic frequencies around us.  This leads to the "appearance" that the world is the way we "think" it is, or what in yoga is called Avidya. 


Ishvara Pranidhana

Lost in the dream of many intentions and the illusion of what I think, how do I remember who I am and where I am going?

In Yoga this practice is called Ishvara Pranidhana.  Being the expression of your Self (capital S).  Being unbound by the desires of the ego, personality and what we think, in order that thought word and deed are the will of your Supreme Self.  When practiced, this "Surrender to the Supreme" works as a portal which appears even in the dream of the crowded market, through which you are connected to the the Highest intention of who you are, Right Now.

Ishvara Pranidhana is very powerful and can even penetrate the spell of powerful emotions like rage.  That even in the midst of a explosion of temper, you may realize that you are connected to who you are, and may find that you are observing the dramatic roller coaster ride of body, mind, ego, personality etc. from a place of stillness.

Ishvara Pranidhana is the mental emotional expression of the inward upward current which right now welcomes every aspect of who and what you are to be more aligned with the intention of the Supreme Self.

Protection 2 : Kelp Activation

Amazing Gift from the sea.  Where all life giving minerals, carried by streams and rivers, now suspended in the the Supreme Homeopathic and Nutritive solution.  Ancient Source of all Life on Earth.  Our Land bodies still crave Yemaja's embrace, and Iodine is needed for hormonal communication, the unifying field which makes millions of tiny cells, one body, this body.

Anti Inflammatory and protective to the thyroid center, KELP is the supreme sea vegetable.  Hioghest natural source of Iodine and available Sodium Alginate which removes radioactive particles, and heavy metals from the body, sweeping the temple clean for Highest enzymatic expression, minerally enhanced with strange molecules which defy the very structure of Modern Science.  Kelp carries trace levels of the infinite unknown, life giving adaptogenic multidimensional informational field.

Stir it into broth, Mix it into smoothies, take it in capsules or shots with water, chase with lime.

Or if you can't remember the taste from when you breathed in the sea....

Bathe with it.

Apply a mask of Kelp to your throat and neck.

Iodine is absorbed easily through the skin.

But do so consciously, or you will do so unconsciously....Headlines read: Mad scientists Free Iodine 131 (unprecedented on the earth) into the atmosphere.  Thyroids hungry for the smell of the sea grab it, concentrate it.... 5 years later: Thyroid cancer, Hypo and Hyper Thyroidism and compromised is this ancient and valuable Instrument, विशुद्ध, Viśuddha, who in whispers sings the song of the spheres to poets dreamers and yogis.

Water without minerals does not conduct electricity.  Those who make such decision mix minerals of their choosing into an intention filled solution we call tap water.

But It may not be your intention.

Choose your solution wisely!

Protection

I turn My feet away from the teacher in All Experience (In Acknowledgement)
I turn to Face the Teacher In All Experience. (The Highest Truth, ISHvara)

With The intention that all beings Everywhere be Happy and Free

Raw Foods : Subtle Nutrtion

As Many of you know I practiced strict "100% Raw Veganism" for many years.  I didn't even drink tea.  The growth and transformation that I underwent, in mind body and emotions was tremendous.  This demonstrated in my abilities with Yoga Asana.  Detoxifying old holding patterns through a water rich live foods diet translated into increased flexibility, energy and balance.  For quite a while.  If you've been to our Raw Foods workshops before then you have heard us extol the benefits.

In late 2009 after 5 years of teaching lots of "heated" yoga, I felt that I was burning out.  My energy levels were low, my immune system was compromised and I was becoming increasingly sensitive to environmental toxins.  The artificial heat of the yoga classes I taught was becoming unbearable and even though I ate a water rich diet, and drank water constantly, I felt like I could not quench my thirst.  The amount of classes I was teaching, in combination with 9 years as a raw foodist may have exacerbated my state, but in my 17 years of yoga practice I  have seen many Yoga teachers and practitioners "burn out" .  This takes the form of fatigue, injury, sickness or often a sense that the joints are giving out, like shoulders, knees and wrists.

In November 2009, we left Minneapolis and I hoped the general fatigue and sense that something was burning me up would cease, since I wasn't teaching "hot" yoga.  The symptoms did not go away however.  Living in Costa Rica on a raw diet of mostly coconuts, greens and fruit, if anything things seemed to get worse.  I was initially not willing to question that the food I was eating provided the most optimal nutrition for my body, partly due to the success I had had on raw foods, and partly do to my  Identification with the food that I ate. 

In 2012 I find myself stronger and feeling "younger" than I have since I was 16.  What changed?  In Raw foods: Subtle Nutrition I will be presenting elements that I believe to be crucial to long term success with any diet, and specifically in regards to yoga and yoga practitioners.

We'll look at weight loss, detoxification and what is subtle nutrition and why is it so important to radiant health.