On Rats and Ahimsa

So the other night I woke up to noise coming from down stairs.  I got up, went downstairs and crept through the living room.  I could hear rustling behind some boxes (we are moving) in the dining room.  I grabbed a broom, and went over to the boxes.  The noise stopped.  Using the broom I pushed the boxes to the side when suddenly a rat jumped out and ran right at me.  I hit it with the broom twice, and it ran off to the the side.  Somehow I had ended up in the kitchen defending the rat hole with the broom.  The rat tried to run into the kitchen but I again landed the broom on it.  It flew off to the side and ducked behind the stove.  I pulled the stove away from the wall, but the rat wasn't there.  I looked under the stove, but it wasn't there... Then I heard it.  the rat had crawled up inside the stove.  I pulled the bottom drawer out of the stove and low and behold I could see the rats tail hanging
down.  "Scissors" I though, but luckily I couldn't find any.  I found a kitchen knife though.  With out

Power Vinyasa : Matt Portwood : Asheville Yoga

Asheville Yoga Center: Join me 5:30 on Sundays... New Students: 8 days 20 dollars

Classes at Asheville Culture Project

 We finally are kicking off some more classes at the Asheville Culture Project.  Friday class will periodically have a special focus such as Nutrition, Sutras, Energetic Anatomy and other various things that might interest yogis.  Were offering an ongoing free week (starting any day), to new local students, so feel welcome to join us at any time.

New Students: One Week of Free Yoga* 

Class Schedule

Mon	10:00am-11:15am	Asheville Culture Project	Power Vinyasa
Wed	10:00am-11:15am	Asheville Culture Project	Power Vinyasa
Fri	10:00am-11:15am	Asheville Culture Project	Power Vinyasa/ Special Topics
Sun	5:45pm-6:45pm	Asheville Yoga Center	Hot Flow

 

Asheville Culture Project  -  257 Short Coxe Ave Asheville NC 28801                  

Asheville Yoga Center  -  239 S Liberty St. Asheville NC 28801

Note: the Free Week is valid for new local students only. 

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Samskara- Self reproductive quality

I went to Shala's Monday Evening class at AYC and as so often seems to be the case there found my self in new (to me) postures, that in 16 years of yoga practice I have never encountered.  At one point she mentioned that a certain posture was good for breaking up scar tissue, and at that moment I was wondering what the subtle counterpart is for the tightness deep in my inner groin. head of the femur area.  And it became clear that "scar tissue", being the physical expression of something that we hold on to, by choice or not, are the expression of samskaras, or habitual ways of experiencing, holding, expressing, believing thinking ect.

Samskara is a quality, it is a guna.  It is the tendency to think, say, do, because we've doe it before.  Samskara is self reproducing, and can take on a life of its own.   Sometimes called thought forms samskaras's are subtle matter that  arises out of nothingness because we create it.  As we create it again and again it becomes