Musings from the fringes of society on observations of how this energetic shift is affecting some of us.
About the Author:
Earth Energy Reader is an over-educated but bored 30-something who loves pugs, organic gardening, travelling to off the beaten path places and pleasant surprises.
Likes: The Truther Movement, well-done astrology, 80′s alternative music, rainbows, flowers that smell like flowers, mashed potatoes, roasted garlic, wine and port, Indian, Thai and Greek food, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Sunday brunch, reading, Ryzsyard Kapucinski books, old Jean Paul Gaultier, red lipstick, leopard print pumps, vintage hats and David Bowie.
Dislikes: Hip hop, country western music, Nickelback, New Agers, Canadian winters, Stephen King, sheeple, suburban mediocrities, Mexican food, Mondays, jocks, himbos and bimbos, people who ride their bicycle on the foot path and pedestrians on the bike path especially when the two paths are next to each other, people who stand at the front of the bus and block the entrance when there are tons of open seats in the back. You get the idea.
Contact: irasna.rising@gmail.com
Irasna,
Read your yoga blog with much interest. I lead a “yoga practice group” up here in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I’m not a yoga teacher; just someone who has had classes for several years and reads a lot of yoga books. You would be intrigued with our backwoods approach, in that I don’t charge and we practice at all levels. Some are pretty advanced, while others are beginners, with everything in between. What you would appreciate is the way the real spirit of yoga has kind of grown up organically in our practice group. Many of us have non-traditional views on religion and approach yoga in the traditional Indian manner. We do not speak or write Sanskrit, or mumble prayers that we don’t know the meaning of. We simply practice yoga to best of our ability in a non-competitive manner and support each others’ practice. We are pretty much turned off by what I refer to as aerobic-yoga and the pseudo let’s-be-more-Indian-than the Indians set. I’ve been to Yoga Journal Conferences, so I know of what you speak. We’ve read about the scam artists, but thankfully they don’t come up here — not enough money to make it worth their while.
Just wanted you to know that your article really rang true with me and I wouldn’t spend one minute worrying about the attacks. The beauty of yoga is that you do your practice on your own and you don’t need anyone’s approval to do it.
Hi Bill,
It sounds like you have something wonderful going on there. I think yoga’s meaning to people will end up being as diverse as humanity itself. If you attended Yoga Journal Conferences than you know that yoga is part of a $6 Billion dollar per year industry now. Anything subjugated to that kind of financial pressure and market interest is bound to change… and not always for the better. I think as long as there are some folks who realize that yoga really is about bringing you back to youself, it’ll always find it’s way, never mind controversial blog posts and juvenile attacks.
Cheers!
Irasna
Found your excellent blog through your Yoga article and wanted to say thank you. You nailed it. I find it amusing how many of the comments were about the exceptions disproving the rule (“our studio is DIFFERENT!”). I dropped out of a Jivamukti Teacher’s Training last year when a “celebrity” teacher from New York came up to teach us “Planetary Chanting” promising us the chance to “taste the flavor of divinity”.
What turned me off most was the self-justifying, narcissistic belief that Yoga could be ANYTHING you wanted it to be. Seemed to me that when something could be anything, it was by definition no-thing….
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Hi,
Just came to realize that Mindmills is listed in your blogroll. Thanks!
I love reading through your interesting and mind shifting topics. Hope you keep it up.
Best wishes, Neslihan
çok teşekkür ederim, Neslihan!
Now that’s even more impressing!
Hi you, I finally made my own wordpress. I’m going to follow your blog more closely now that I’m here, seems like really good stuff.
M.
Irasna,
Very nice blog. It sounds like you’re a woman after my own heart – with the exception of disliking Mexican food.
Lovely article on Stuart Wilde. Your other articles are FASCINATING! Your title, “Shift Has Hit the Fan” is clever. Keep it up.
Peace,
Steph
Thank you for your kind words Steph!
I think many of us will miss Stuie, his method of teaching was not only very unique but also very accessible and humane.
xx
EER