Author: pmcrose

May the force be with you?

It is always with you!

The prana, the vital life force, is always with you!

Through your yoga and meditation practices, you come to know it most intimately.

With great love and respect, the force is with you!

So get on your dancing shoes (or yoga clothes!), and let’s celebrate the raw stuff of life, the vital force itself, the prana!

Take a breath. It’s prana.

Move a finger. It’s prana.

Blink an eye. It’s prana!

Party down. It’s prana!

Let’s all have a prana celebration!

Namaste…. (It’s prana too!)

Screaming silence, you shock me and envelop me with your cashmere coat of bliss.

There’s nowhere to arrive to because you’re already there!

Yoga and meditation, all the limbs of yoga, help “deliver” you there.

Like a beautiful rose opening, the practices open you to what’s been there all along….

To propel yourself forward in your yoga, do not limit yourself to just poses or asanas.

This would be like trying to walk on only one leg. You wouldn’t get very far!

Begin to explore and actively engage all the limbs of yoga–the teachings or sutras, breath work or pranayama, meditation….

See where this carries you.

To read more on the eight limbs of yoga, click here.

In meditation, repeat the natural mantra, the sound of the breath coming in Ham* (“I am”) and the breath going out Sa (“That”).

Again and again inhale Ham, exhale Sa–“I am That,” the supreme Self.

Be drawn into its silence.

Even glimpses of it profound and palpable silence speak volumes.

*Ham is not pronounced like the meat ham, but rather with more the short o sound as in hom.

Be moved to good humor

through your yoga and meditation.

You and the world will be happy for this–

deeply, deeply happy!

Yoga and meditation may not change our situation,

but they certainly can change our relationship to it.

Yoga and meditation may not radically alter the world,

but they certainly will alter your world!

Live your dreams,

and turn your life inside out.

Here I am in happy birthday pose, (ananda janmadivasahasana).*

May peace, love, joy, bliss, and the deepest of happiness bless your lives, and flow to you through your yoga and meditation practices.

Namaste!

And remember, every day… and every moment are a sort of birth day–anew, fresh, vibrating wondrously with the life or vital force, the prana.

Alive!!

*actually, every pose is birthday pose!