Posts made in May, 2010

Thank you for all your responses! I read them and then spent time thinking over how yoga conceives of the hero, beyond the poses. Here’s a snippet of what I wrote: The religion of love teaches us to love ourselves in order to find peace. Yoga is a method for loving oneself. This is the ultimate aim of yoga: to find peace through love. Those who achieve this are heroes. Of course, loving the entire world does not happen overnight. I have become my own hero, by loving myself and finding peace through yoga. Yoga’s conception of Hero of the religion of Love comes in many forms, including massage, living in the present, and poses. Yoga and Massage Tender touch can be healing, providing love to the being that receives it. I have been fortunate to learn how to...

So I’m trying to write an essay for a course on heroes. In the class, we’re discussing heroes in our religion. I could have chosen Hinduism, and made it really easy for me. (Arjuna, Krishna, Rama, Devi, Kali) This, however, would be lazy on my part, and yoga does not necessarily espouse laziness. So, I thought would challenge myself to write about heroes in the religion of Love. One part of this religion teaches us to love one another and love everyone, which yoga can help in. Yoga is about finding inner peace, and being able to translate it into our daily actions. This would include bringing love into our social interactions with people we meet all the time. Another part of this religion teaches us to love ourselves, which, again, yoga has the ability...

I haven’t written in a while, perhaps because I didn’t feel it was important to write over these last months. I was focused on Yoga for Peace as a course that helps people attain a level of inner peace and allows them to use that peace in their daily interactions. The subjects of the course were already blogged on, and I didn’t find anything extraordinarily new to report on. Today, I would like to talk about Yoga in Business situations. I came across an organization that claims to be peaceful and claims to be well-organized. Yet when I dug deeper, I found that there were issues of marginalization of the minority, as well as no coherent planning, structure, or organization. Everything was done in a haphazard, spontaneous way. Spontaineity is...