Lil Thoughts: Session 6 - Accessible Yoga Training
Take Aways from my Accessible Yoga Training Jan-Mar 2024
These thoughts are not endorsed by Accessible Yoga. I am sharing my personal thoughts that have arisen during classes. Any direct quotes from teachers in class will be clearly credited! Assume otherwise that anything written here is my own interpretation.
Class 6: Meditation
Word Count: 127
Reading Time: <1min
Gender Transcendence as Yoga
If the Essence of the 1st sutras is that:
Our true Selves are not our bodies and minds, which are ever changing, but are Spirit, which is unchanging and eternal
Yoga allows us to see this truth clearly & to experience the internal peace of Spirit Eternal and Pure Consciousness
and if
Yoga is the practices and processes (including concentration & meditation) that allow us to the transcend the body-mind and asmita (ego; I-am-ness)
and if
gender is an expression of embodiment, and therefore a reflection of attachment to body-mind
then
gender is self, not Self, and
the experience of yoga, of Pure Consciousness, of Spirit Eternal, requires the transcendence of gender as identity as much as it requires the transcendence of any other expression of body-mind
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