Comments on: Where the heart is http://donutszenmom.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/ ashtanga yoga. zen. life. words. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Arturo http://donutszenmom.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Arturo Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:36:01 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/#comment-1063 Hi Karen Perhaps you're being hard on yourself? Practicing while traveling for work is difficult, so that the routine would not have the same feeling as practicing in the shala at home would have. It's probably good to take classes in another tradition. There may be times when you are too tired to do the ashtanga routine and it is good to try a different method. Ultimately, any method is part of spiritual development. Personally, I'd like to learn more about yin yoga. Hope you enjoy Singapore. Cheers, Arturo Hi Karen
Perhaps you’re being hard on yourself? Practicing while traveling for work is difficult, so that the routine would not have the same feeling as practicing in the shala at home would have. It’s probably good to take classes in another tradition. There may be times when you are too tired to do the ashtanga routine and it is good to try a different method. Ultimately, any method is part of spiritual development. Personally, I’d like to learn more about yin yoga. Hope you enjoy Singapore.
Cheers,
Arturo

]]> By: gartenfische http://donutszenmom.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 gartenfische Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:14:19 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/#comment-1062 Welcome home! Hopefully you'll be sleeping again. :) (Something I'm having a lot of trouble with at the moment.) Oh, but then you'll be off to Singapore . . . ! I think it would be a good thing to explore another style now and then. Especially if the teacher is really good. Why not? It doesn't preclude continuing your Ashtanga practice and you might learn something new. I think Cranky made an excellent point about practicing "religiously," but not being dogmatic if we're feeling pulled toward something else. Welcome home! Hopefully you’ll be sleeping again. :) (Something I’m having a lot of trouble with at the moment.) Oh, but then you’ll be off to Singapore . . . !

I think it would be a good thing to explore another style now and then. Especially if the teacher is really good. Why not? It doesn’t preclude continuing your Ashtanga practice and you might learn something new. I think Cranky made an excellent point about practicing “religiously,” but not being dogmatic if we’re feeling pulled toward something else.

]]> By: crankyhousefrau http://donutszenmom.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 crankyhousefrau Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:15:33 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/#comment-1061 oh, and have safe and pleasant travels! sorry if the airplane talk freaked you out! :) oh, and have safe and pleasant travels! sorry if the airplane talk freaked you out! :)

]]> By: crankyhousefrau http://donutszenmom.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 crankyhousefrau Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:14:58 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/#comment-1060 i always approach my practice as a religious experience, akin to going to temple or to church. i am a Quaker in faith, but i LOVE, going to other services. i went to the Bat Mitzvah of one of my students the other weekend and even though i have long left the Jewish faith, i really felt at home and was very moved by hearing and reciting the prayers. i really believe that God is happy seeing us doing our "practice" whatever it is, wherever it is. i was about to write 'as long as we do it with love', but i think even if we do it with the idea of 'just suck it up and do it' sometimes, that we work through that and get back to the place of doing it with love and reverence. i think there is a great benefit to doing a practice "religiously", that is exactly how it is prescribed and without straying. but i think we need to keep ourselves open to the practice not being what we need all the time, and looking elsewhere. i mean, the thing we are looking for in the end is the same even if the path is different. i always approach my practice as a religious experience, akin to going to temple or to church. i am a Quaker in faith, but i LOVE, going to other services. i went to the Bat Mitzvah of one of my students the other weekend and even though i have long left the Jewish faith, i really felt at home and was very moved by hearing and reciting the prayers. i really believe that God is happy seeing us doing our “practice” whatever it is, wherever it is. i was about to write ‘as long as we do it with love’, but i think even if we do it with the idea of ‘just suck it up and do it’ sometimes, that we work through that and get back to the place of doing it with love and reverence.
i think there is a great benefit to doing a practice “religiously”, that is exactly how it is prescribed and without straying. but i think we need to keep ourselves open to the practice not being what we need all the time, and looking elsewhere. i mean, the thing we are looking for in the end is the same even if the path is different.

]]> By: Vanessa http://donutszenmom.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Vanessa Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:31:38 +0000 http://donutszenmom.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/where-the-heart-is/#comment-1059 I once had to be reminded by a dear old friend to actually ENJOY my practice. This was right before the split and I got stuck in "stoic" mode when I didn't really have to. It was a good lesson for me, but I still tend to forget. I once had to be reminded by a dear old friend to actually ENJOY my practice. This was right before the split and I got stuck in “stoic” mode when I didn’t really have to. It was a good lesson for me, but I still tend to forget.

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