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Messages from Rudrani
September '09
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Hello Dear WYC Students:
This is just a brief check-in to wish you all
the best as we say goodbye to Summertime and welcome the
Fall. We are proud of all of you. For all the season's playfulness and
expansion, WYC students remained steady and consistent in the
teachings and practices, revealing a maturation process as a
community.
About the passing of time In the great
outdoors over these wonderful summer months we listened to the songs of
the trees and the songs of the lakes and were
easily held in the beauty of life on Earth. It was
a rich abundance that seems over so quickly!
The passage of time, in the worldly sense,
always hurts a little as we will all have to leave
this world before the story is over. Yet our Yoga practice
teaches us that- that story never ends- and we are all carrying
eternity in the heart.
About going back to work
As we transition slowly back to work, we know the
teaching is to value
what we do everyday and find a way for our actions to tie us
to
something greater than ourselves so that we are
nourished by it. Our
challenge to to transform the work we do into something
visionary that
becomes a long lasting offering. As "back to work " consumes
us, it is
good to remember that on a deeper level the activity of our
mind,
body, and senses can become a sacred convergence that
allows the
Infinite to flow through us to others wherever we are and
whatever we
are doing. In the worldly trade of time- for
-money, we can easily
forget how our good work really happens throughout the day, unpaid
and
freely expressed, as we give and receive from one another, share
with
each other, laugh and weep together, triumph over grief together,
and
praise life together. We are not journeying alone.
About the WYC Community The WYC is
itself an expression of the lasting work of the Siddhas. As a
community, our work is directed to reaching that "field"
that the poet Rumi talks about beyond
"good and evil". We aspire to meet there, teachers and
students alike, where we can give and receive, and
where dreams and intentions manifest.
All the best, to you all, for a wonderful new beginning for our Fall
season of practices.
Rudrani
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We
hope your holiday
weekend was a happy time!
Did you know that on Easter Sunday in St. John the Divine Cathedral
-the largest cathedral in the country- thousands of New Yorkers of
every faith got to sing “Somewhere over the Rainbow” along
with Joan Collins. It was definitely a New York moment to hear the
whole cathedral sing softly without accompaniment: “
---skies are blue …and the dreams that you dare to dream really
do come true”
As trees flower and
bloom, Spring regales us with beauty and reminds
us that we must dream something new to sustain life here,
dare to dream a different dream.
In the midst of extinction
of species, climate change and the end of economic progress at all
costs, the wisdom keepers in every tradition are speaking to
us with one voice: it is time to dream a
different dream.
As a child I
saw this country unite, plant gardens, like Eleanor
Roosevelt's victory garden on the White house lawn,
conserve water, electricity, gas, tin, paper, fabric as part of
the war effort against a common enemy. The unity was unforgettable. Now
a deeper war is touching people globally, a harder war
to win, the war on human ignorance. My teacher always said:
If you want to fight something, fight your own wrong
thinking. We have to dream a different dream.
Yoga has been
here on the planet for thousands of years as a conduit of
knowledge. It is a gift to us. With every asana performed,
every conscious breath taken, every
mantra repeated, we are enjoying an immensely rich
inheritance handed down to us from the ancient world- a fiery
torch of love and internal freedom that has never gone out.
Now, as this fire sweeps through our system
with higher energies, we can let go of our old ways, and dream a new
dream. Anything is possible!
Your very own Rudrani
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Spring Greetings!
Spring is here and it feels more precious, more mysterious,
and more miraculous than ever... Mother Earth is still able to mother
us. May we feel our belonging with her!
This is a significant time for yoga students as we draw on inner powers
to answer the question many of us are facing " who am I without my job
and my station in life, without stable externals? Where is my true
security?"
The sages of yoga say that we find true peace in Presence, in
dwelling in our conscious core, in opening to an undivided experience
of true being. In these challenging times, fully
inhabiting our human form while identifying with that deeper stratum of
our being is, bottom line, our only true security. We are all
being called to be sages!
We find inner wisdom as we practice and meditate. We reach out for
community as well, in our families and with each other. We mend what is
torn, fix what is broken, use our human ingenuity, pull together
and strengthen our ability to take care of one another. If
expanding the frontiers of human evolution is our highest ideal, than
this era holds an incredible hidden promise. Rigorous demands on us are
bringing out our greatest powers. This is the heart of Yoga in the
highest sense. We are proud of the yoga community and see
leadership in our students in the frontiers of human consciousness.
We welcome all of you to be part of the wonderful Spring season ahead
and flow in the rhythm of the WYC community.
Much love to you all
Happy Spring!!
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