Tulabi falls, Manitoba. Aug 2008

Tulabi falls, Manitoba

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Understanding the meditation process

Meditation can be described as a continued, unbroken awareness of the mind in it's raw state. It involves the overcomings of distractions and dissipated energies into a blissful awareness. Let us look  at it this way-at any point in time we are consumed with countless thoughts and emotional baggage at the concious and subconcious level. This prevents us from experianceing true uninhibited bliss. Bliss will result from an expanded awareness of the happenings without any attatchments and bonds whatsoever.

Meditation is a process which equips us with tools to experience this bliss. It shows us the path to live everyday life using these tools

People who meditate realize that they experience a beautiful inner space as they disengage from the outside world and go deep into themselves. They get detached from their ego and the emotional bondage to experience this feeling. But as soon as they come out of it, they return to their 'personality shapes'. These shapes are accompanied by learned patterns of behavior and thinking about who they are and what they can or cannot achieve.

We must strive to relate these two states - the higher meditative state and the daily conscious state. At any point of time, we should be aware of our 'higher state'. Meditation is mind management and helps us do that.

What meditation does: 

Meditation helps us overcome our manifold desires and distractions. It does so NOT by curbing desires - which will always be there - but by rendering them inconsequential in front of an unbroken and larger desire of existence. The more we can hold onto the memory of the meditation practice, the easier it is to pull yourself back from the endless desires.

Meditation teaches us to be a 'witness'. While we are meditating, we are detached and enjoying the moment. But the moment we finish, we lose it and return to our distracted state. So, we need to develop a meditative lifestyle. This lifestyle will help us observe and understand why we oscillate between the calm meditative state and our daily state of mind. We then understand what patterns of our lifestyle disturb our calm, blissful state.

 

Important prerequisite for meditation: 

For successful meditation, we must be 'grounded'. Grounding is that anchor that helps us to be stable in the meditative process. Normally, grounding can be anchoring to your breath or your body movement while in the meditative state. It can happen that as you proceed in meditation, you reach a stage of unknown where you have no confidence to proceed further. At such a time, grounding is of great help as it provides a memory of where you are and what you are doing. It provides a stability to rest upon as energies start to change while proceeding in meditation.

How to use meditation: 

In meditation, we should develop the capacity to use our energy to manipulate our mind and how we feel. We should be able to understand what is going on at our deeper levels. Only when we understand the issues can we tackle them and take them out as a distraction to our calm being

              -HealthandYoga.com-

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Moksha Yoga Winnipeg

In yoga philosophy texts we learn that to reach 'Moksha Yoga' is to attain enlightenment -a state of being that brings understanding of our true nature as sentient beings, opens a sense of deep liberation, and frees us from the suffering of every day life. In choosing our name, we thought we'd aim high!

Moksha can also be translated as freedom. The Moksha Yoga series is free to change and evolve based on the needs of the students. The Moksha Yoga series was designed to free areas of the body that are often habitually tight and constricted - lower back, hips, knees, shoulders and neck. In this process the body is strengthened, toned, and opened, while the mind becomes still. Space is created within so that each student moves towards the full potential in their life.

We sweat green! Well, not literally, of course, but we do operate based on a deep sense of responsibility for the effect of our actions on the natural environment. In fact every Moksha Yoga studio signs an agreement to operate with strict environmental controls. The studios are built with sustainable and non-toxic supplies, lights and heating systems are low consumption and all studios are cleaned with environmentally-friendly cleaning products.

We take our day-to-day environmental efforts a step further and donate monthly to Zero Footprint. Zero Footprint is an organization that measures the environmental impact a home or business is having on carbon emissions, a leading contributor to global warming. When emissions are determined, measured donations are made and Zero Footprint plants trees and protects watersheds to offset the negative effects our day to day power usage has on the environment. Moksha Yoga is now a Zero Footprint organization!! To offset the effect of your home, office, commute to work, airline flights, etc. visit www.zerofootprint.net

In addition, each year the Moksha Yoga family sends 30-50 teachers into communities to introduce yoga to various under-serviced and often marginalized communities - for example: half-way houses, centres for addiction or youth at risk. Classes are taught free of charge and often give the individuals skills and elevate their feeling of self-worth.

Natural living in Canada (An introduction)

     "Global thinking and local action both require understanding of ecological systems, but ecological management can be effective only if it takes into consideration the visceral and spiritual values that link us to the earth. Therefore ecological thinking must be supplemented by humanistic value judgements concerning the effect of our choices and actions on the quality of the relationship between humankind and earth, in the future as well as the present.

             -Rene Jules Dubos, The wooing of the earth-

Our goal in this blog is only to inform. To help people get more enjoyment from the earth, by eating better and urban gardening to better mental health and overall fitness, as well as enjoying nature first hand through backwoods camping and hiking. To help people get closer to the earth, thus developing a relationship with it. To understand the importance of minimizing our carbon footprint to protect the earth for future generations.

We are not "Hippies" here. Although my girlfriend is a vegetarian, I am not nor do I intend to be. That is not to say that our eating habits do not affect our enviroment. I don't have long hair, or much hair for that matter. We just thought it would be good to create a resource for people to come and learn and to teach, so please enjoy our blog and please respect it for all readers. Thank-you.                                                                -Rob and Ella-