Surrender and Grace
Remember ones self.
Through practice, through dedication, through intention, through acceptance, through surrender. Through changing the automated self, the programed actions, responses, we remember the self, we become present. The cord of the violin makes sound when tension and friction are applied. The skin of the drum makes sound as a reaction to force, to being hit. We are able to so fluidly move through space from the forces of gravity and friction, these limits, these restricitons, these binding forces allow for beauty and freedom to be exressed.
Through surrendering the ego, through surrendering the past and future thought, we become present. In true presence, remembering ones self, we achieve a state of grace.
Day one: East, wind, opening the front body
Flow, control, balance, surrender
What an incredible first day of this exploration. Everything unflods as it needs to. I was reminded that over a month ago I had said, "It would be nice if we could just have this retreat here, between Raices and the new farm land." And so it is! Teaching and asana practice in the morning focusing on backbends, opening the front body and continuing the exploration of the five elements through the two traditions. A beautifuly instructed aukward yet flowing practice, intended to bring the attention back to the self, through the senses, to "remember your self". Followed by divine nourishing food and then an intense and very real afternoon and evening of tending the sacred fire, entering the inipi (sweatlodge) and communing with mother nature in the womb. May all our prayers be hear.
To All My Relations
Aho!
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