If you say love is, then why aren't you always loving? 

When you are not loving can now be seen as the greatest of gifts, showing you exactly where your priorities are off.  Where healing, forgivness, awakening is needed.  Where love is not the top priority, is your compass showing precisely where your spiritual work is.

HEADS up This is not a yoga class, but the first discussion from the Day Long Yoga Bootcamp I taught in September at ALL That Matters, the largest holistic health center in New England.  This discussion follows the class posted called Bootcamp 1.  You are going to get the entire bootcamp- pretty close.

This discussion is about Intuition and what blocks it.  We first discuss the idea a flow from the book Beyond Boredom and Anxiety.  It defines Flow, what we call presence, as the space in-between boredom and anxiety.   His study included athletes, but applied to all of us.  We want to increase our experience of flow or presence because we get a large hit of intuition, and that always feels great.

At about 11.5 minutes we begin to draw a map of what blocks us from our intuition- this is pretty fun. The map we draw is called the âred donutâ? âalmost famousâ? from my Podcast, âA Crash Course in Miracles.â?  This is pretty fun discussion and expands pretty far.  I hope you enjoy it.  Please look in the iTunes window- a picture of a red Donut in included with this post.   If you are looking for more yoga, itâs coming in the next few posts- there may be one more discussion first- maybe not.  Then I have a backlog of classes to post.  Thanks.

00:00 Intro talk about Intuition (19 min)
19:00 Meditation (7 min)
26:00 Baptiste Vinyasa Yoga Class  (2 hrs, 15 Min)

I may post the other 2 parts of this bootcamp next, then I have a backlog of regular classes to post. 

Philip Urso has studied A Course in Miracles for 12 years and publishes 2 popular podcasts on The Course on iTunes. He regularly leads workshops/intensives on The Course, often with Course themed Vinyasa yoga. 

He is certified to teach Baptiste yoga by Baron Baptiste and has assisted Baron at over a dozen 8-day teacher trainings nationally and internationally.  He teaches at his studio, Salt Pond Yoga and also at the largest holistic health center in New England, All That Matters.  Both studios are in Rhode Island.  He can be reached at philip@saltpondyoga.com.

1. You need to be an experienced beginner.  You will need to know basic yoga poses and safe allignment.
2. Helpful to have a block and strap (or tie is a good substitute). 
3. Heat the room.  Ideally, 90 degrees F and 60% humidity (use a humidifier if possible). 
4. You will sweat alot.  Have water and towels nearby.
5. If you get tired, dizzy, or find your breath has come apart and you are panting, take child pose, regain Ujayii breath, and rejoin the class.
6. As with all exercise programs, you do so at your own risk.
7. To download class, see classes below and right click where it says "pod." Click on "Save Target as."  Put the file where you can find it.

The ultimate book on the practice is Journey into Power, by Baron Baptiste.  This is one of the best selling yoga books ever. This will show every pose and explain safe alignment, the sequence and the philosophy.

For more info...see SaltPondYoga.com

Thanks philip@urso.com  (The picture is Lisa overlooking the Great Barrier Reef.)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License and  licenses from ASCAP and BMI.

What is presence?  Trying out my 15 year old daughter as announcer!

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-Baron Baptiste

When this happens, we no longer see reality. All we see is our own past judgments pasted on what we see and even feel. We become disconnected with reality. In a very real sense, we are alone in all the universe. This state, (and one of anxiety*), is what we experience most of the time. 

Sometimes we come across an experience that has no past reference in the mind.  The mind is suddenly stilled.  There is no memory to dull the experience.  This surprising break in the dullness frees us to experience what we are: love's presence.  Usually it feels like awe, like when we cross above treeline on a new mountain peak the first time. 

In this class we practice not naming what we feel.  We simple let the experience be shown to us as it is now.  We practice looking intensely at the reality, the sensation and the breath, instead of the dull experience of yesterday's sensation.

As always, the aim of the class is to expand our awareness of the rush that we are and learn how to regain it when the dullness tries to work its way back.  Once we learn at will how to feel the rush of what we are, the dullness is intolerable.   (*It's not just the dullness, but also the anxiety and the drama, but that's for another class.)

philip