Integrative Yoga

Yogshakti is the Center where I did my 500 hour Teacher Training Program. Our Master, Shilpa Gathalia, taught us that the main aim of Yoga was to still the mind. In that way the challenges life brings are easier to handle. Come and experience this rich type of yoga for everyone.

 Classes every Thursday from 6.30 to 8am, Hampshire Park Condo

Integrative Yoga is a synthesis of the teachings of the Himalayan tradition of Swami Rama; the Intuitive Yoga of spinal freedom inspired by Vanda Scaravelli; Yin Yoga; the Zen Mindfulness teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and the philosophy of non-dualism of Taoism and Advaita Vedanta. It also draws from the timeless eastern practices of Taichi & Qigong. 

You already are that which you seek. With the dropping of ‘doing’ one naturally experiences one’s ‘BEingness’. To BE means to abide in our true nature, to the source within, to the silent witnessing presence within, which has always been there, is there and will always be there.

Integrative Yoga incorporates philosophy into movement to enable one to find the infinite within and live in a continuous state of awareness. 

The practice invloves:

– Movement originating from the Vital Center/ Dan Tien or Hara
– Effortless movement with little or no change in heart rate
– Slowing of breath
– Silencing of mind
– Cultivating Presence

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Some notes from class:

• The actions of others are not even theirs?

• If you are struggling with it, you need it!

• No pain, no pain! Give your 70%

• Actions that come from your loving heart are very powerful

• How about getting in touch with my presence by breathing light for 30 seconds?

• I acknowledge my talent, not for my ego, but to share it with others

• No expectations.

• Don’t get attached on being happy

• Those who need you will find you

• If the universe feels you need acknowledgment, it will come.

• If they say you are nice, then they can change and say you are horrible. Don’t take it personal, it is about them.

• You don’t need to be liked by everybody.

• Believe in the love you have to share

• Give love to somebody who is nasty to you. That person is also you.

• Uncolor my thoughts

• Don’t judge your feelings or thoughts, observe them and be aware of them

• If I judge somebody, I am judging myself

• If mind is still, clarity arises so be aware of your breath

• Honor whatever arises

• Natural process of life

• Keep tail head connection 

• Connecting with my inner guiding light

• Saluting my pure bliss

• I am beyond emotions

• I am not my thought or my feelings. I am before that.

• Balance, equilibrium

• Love has no opposite. We are love. I am love.

• Flow with forces, don’t resist, just surrender.

• Allowing it to happen. It is beyond my control

• What is meant to happen, will happen.

• I am not the stories I tell myself.

• Let us be aware that our ego is there and observe it.

• I am one of the ways God operates in the world

• I am a channel, an instrument of love.

• I am complete, I am perfect, I have everything I need inside myself.

• Love is the fragrance that flows through us when we are awake

• Let us be light to ourselves and all other beings.

• When the “me” disappears, the teaching happens.

• Let us connect to the center of our energy

• We practice to connect with what is already there in us.