"As Satsang* is the only safe boat to take you to the other shore of Bliss or Moksha (liberation), you should all try as best as is in your power, never to miss it." - Swami Sivananda
*SATSANG is a spiritual gathering with guided meditation followed by kirtan (call-and-response mantra chanting and music) and a short reading, all in the Sivananda tradition. Beginners and members of all traditions are welcome.
For directions and more information on Satsang and other events go to www.yogawarehouse.org.
Join us at the Yoga Warehouse in Downtown Fort Lauderdale for this special event every Sunday evening at 7pm and every Wednesday evening at 7:15pm. Satsang is always free and open to all.
Editor's Note: During the summer months, Satsang is being help on Sundays only. Be sure to check the Yoga Warehouse Web site for up-to-date information.)
I love Satsang. No matter what is going on in life, I always feel better after Satsang. I think it IS the vibrations, as the swamis have explained. Whatever it is, I enjoy it so much that it confounds me I am not able to go more often.
Why yoga works—simply
Ancient yogis knew the benefits that came with regular yoga practice. Today, advancements in technology enable scientists to show precisely how these ancient practices work to benefit the mind and body. Yogis have been passing on the teachings of yoga for nearly 5,000 years.
Most simply, using proper breathing, especially during asana practice, enables the average person to develop the breathing apparatus and strengthen the vital life force. Once that begins, everything else flows from it. Why yoga works is really that simple. Any time you lie on the mat and breathe, the benefits of yoga begin.
There is a saying in yoga that when we control the breath, we control the life force, and when you think about that, it's really true.
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Yoga Poetry
Attention Yogi Poets: Please submit your Yoga Poetry for publication in this corner--share your artistic light with others. (Poet keeps all rights.) Meanwhile, please enjoy these prayers and chants that follow. Namaste.
I first became aware of this prayer during Yoga Teachers Training. It is one of my favorites, and it is also a call-and-response chant that is sometimes sung during satsang. Enjoy!
A Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon,
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive--
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
*SATSANG is a spiritual gathering with guided meditation followed by kirtan (call-and-response mantra chanting and music) and a short reading, all in the Sivananda tradition. Beginners and members of all traditions are welcome.
“Health is wealth, peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.”
