Fred, where is north?
North? North is there my love.
The brook runs west.
What does it think its doing running west
When all the other country brooks run east
To reach the ocean?
It must be the brook that can trust itself to go by contraries. ( from West Running Brook by Robert Frost)
If life's course runs east, then yoga's course runs west. Yoga interrupts the life path of birth from the central generative point (saatva) through an unfolding pattern of growth (rajas) to maturity and decline (tamas) and finally death and returning to the unmanifest. Yoga's path coaxes you from the alternating current of growth and decline, work and rest, yin and yang back to the center. It temporarily stops the merry-go-round so you can get off and get free for a moment. When you get back on, you're not so dizzy.
It is this backward motion toward the source,
Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in,
The tribute of the current to the source.
It is from this in nature we are from.
It is most us. ( again from West Running Brook)
Embryos and organs take on form in identical conditions. Energy and fluids, swirled by the heart pump, form currents of clockwise and counterclockwise spirals. Where these complimentary spirals converge, standing waves appear. These standing waves are vesica picses. Out of the vulva of the vesica, from the central generative point, spirals of ears and fetuses emerge.
When we use the techniques of mapping hands, feet and chakras on the torso, the body aligns itself to the energy grid of the pose. When we spin the map, like a pinwheel, around the center, you experience liberation on many levels. Physically you engage your power and vitality. You gain control over your emotional brain as you develop the perspective of the witness. You increase your direct sense perception. You develop high sense perception. You create octave waves of vesicas through out every level of being. Out of the central generative point of the converging, complementary spirals, something new, something miraculous unfolds.
The story of Christ's crucifixion and rebirth is the story of you. That is why transformation doesn't do it. It is just exchanging one form for another. The form may be different but the contents are not. Transfiguration is what it's about. Every cell, molecule and atom vibrate at a new frequency.
But, I get ahead of myself. The miracle is in the unfolding. The transition times between things like winter to spring, dawn and dusk, the new and full moons, births, coming of age, weddings, funerals etc. are all magic times. They are also vesicas. Here and now there is a great opportunity to bring forth something new. After setting deep roots in winter, new forms now arise and flourish.
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