• This week in focus: Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā

• Meditation Retreats - deep inner work in iconic locations
• Spiritual Formation programme - dive in!
• Homeschooling 12-17 y.o. - Balingup area
• Yoga - Yallingup; Balingup; Margaret River - and a new course
• Tarot - Fremantle March Conference and more
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Outside my classes, I rarely speak of yoga. Yet it is an area on which I often get asked various questions, including some statements made by Rudolf Steiner - statements that were totally relevant for the times made and the austerities of yoga that had already penetrated into European the 19th century.

Yoga as we have it today has come a long way in the West (and in the East) over the last 150 years. Some of the classical texts have been recovered, and its various elements amplified in various ways.

Aside from the opening statement from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras - which reminds the reader that ‘yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind’ - there are a small number of other ‘classical’ texts that are frequently mentioned yet, unfortunately, remain as frequently un-studied - even within yoga teaching programmes. One of these is undoubtedly Swatmarasama Hatha Yoga Pradīpikā.

Here the book is divided into four small sections: the first on Asanas; the second on Pranayama; the third on the Bandhas; and the fourth on states of Samadhi. Though there is much overlap with the Yoga Sutras, there is also much that remains not only distinct, with excursions into important considerations for Consciousness - or what we may at times refer to as ‘spiritual awakening’. One such brief statement, or a prelude to the experience, is in Chapter 4, verse 16:

‘Remaining in the most suitable place, having found how to penetrate Shushumna and make Prana flow through the middle channel, it should be constrained within brahmarandhra, the centre of higher consciousness’

There are, of course, various translations (and even more commentaries), each of which brings light to the meaning of the practices - and it is the practices that are of greater importance than the texts, which remain manuals for development through practice.

Over February and March (8 weeks), we’ll be offering a short course in Margaret River focussing on this text (including some practices). If you’re in the area and would like to participate, come along or pre-book here:

Three dates and three iconic locations from which to choose, each offering a programme rich in inner depth. The programmes run from Friday evening until Sunday 10 am.

Transform inner fears and anger, accept the flow of love's curiosity, avoid greed and envy - explore these known benefits of meditation... deepen your experience and discover ways to establish and maintain a personal practice that works for you...

Meditation retreats include
optional yoga or movement session
optional sound healing session
other optional extras based on location

These Workshop–Retreats combine offerings from wellness, neuroscience, and meditative practices.

We’ll include elements from neuroscientific research and other investigative fields; provide efficient techniques and methods of meditation; and develop a framework to establish and maintain regular practice.

Using a simplified neuro-anatomical model through which to deepen meditative practices, the retreat space supports participants in personal journeys.

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Wednesdays 6 pm - focus: deepening personal practice - resumes February

Personal Development has traditionally focussed on spiritual formation. In the manner that I work, I include practices inclusive of imagery and meditation. If you are interested in finding out more, please be in contact.

Following an initial consultation, deepening work requires commitment for a once-a-month meeting for either 6 or 12 months (renewable if desired).

More details in the pdf below

12-17 y.o. Homeschooling - 8 weeks resumes in February

Western Culture is steeped within a Christian framework that is, increasingly, being caricatured through some of its historical failings. Yet to understand much of the artwork, our holidays, even how it is that we have weekends as non-working days (at least for some of us), to partake and understand the foundational texts is important. We will read through the Gospel of St Matthew (and where relevant, cross-reference to Greek philosophy, mesapotamian astronomy/astrology, and their respective developments over the course of the ensuing centuries). I recommend the Jerusalem Bible as a good translation for the new Testament.

Similarly, Eastern culture has heavily been infused with streams emanating from the Upanishads, and one of the most influential line is through the Advaitist tradition through Sankaracharya's AtmaBhoda - a versed book that, like many others in the tradition, holds in condensed form a vast worldview and way of being.

9:30 - 11:30 BOOKS - Gospel of St Matthew - Jerusalem Bible translation (available as a pdf here - Matthew only), and the Atma Bodha (available as a pdf here).

12:30 - 2:30 ART - focussed on Geometry and astronomy

Thursdays 8 am - with Alice
Fridays 8 am - with Susana
Saturdays 8 am - with Jean-Michel
Sundays 8 am - with David & Devi

Monday 6 pm - with Alice
Tuesday 6 pm - with Jean-Michel [8-wk Hatha Pradipika]

Thursday 10 am - with Jean-Michel
Thursday 6 pm - with Jean-Michel

Thursday 6:00 am - DM Devi on @kundalini_southwest
Friday 6:00 am - DM Devi on @kundalini_southwest
Saturday 8:00 am - DM Devi on @kundalini_southwest

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February-March, Tuesdays 6-7:30, Margaret River
11 Station Rd (behind Anglican Church)
$200

Saturday:
Mary Greer, David Mitchell, Julia Chapple, Shirley Barroy,
Russell Sturgess, Kat Black
Sunday:
Jean-Michel David, Sue Yarwood, Julia Chapple,
Mary K Greer, Carolyn Johnson, Marina Lovasz

Get a copy of my book, Reading the Marseille Tarot here

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