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Free! Heart-Centered Guide Awareness for You

12/17/2014

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Check out this recorded guided awareness for your home practice! I'd love to read your comments here or on Facebook please share this gift with your loved ones, your family, your co-workers - we could all use a little more LOVE and RELAXATION! 
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"The heart which knows love, deeply relaxes in that love. The heart becomes withered by constant worldly stimulation… and the more withered the heart, the greater the need for worldly amusements, sensations and stimulation. We satisfy craving by pursuing these things and the heart and mind become withered.  It takes time to unwind the mind and settle into love.  Love is not cognized through your mind.  Love is more primordial than your mind; more primordial than thought.  An agitated mind can not know love. A slow or sluggish mind can not know love. A mind full of intellectualization or rationalization can not know love. Love is known by awareness… for this, the mind must be quiet, silent, steady,  focused. Give yourself solitude.  Start in an easy way, a simple way. It will take you a long way." - Swami Tattvavidānanda

Use this Recording (and share it!) for Home Practice

Start with your own inner experience - with this guided awareness which you can use in seated meditation, or in a restorative shavāsana. Then move down and read a little about the inspiration for this practice. 

About this Particular Guided Awareness

Each month in my local restorative yoga classes, we embark on a theme - it may be a focus on a particular direction of movement, or a particular pose, or a particular philosophical teaching from the yoga tradition. As part of the months theme, I create a specialized guided awareness to support the whole process. As we turned the corner of Thanksgiving and entered December and the holiday season, it became apparent...  Folks suddenly were overwhelmed, depleted, and withered! I was seeing downright exhaustion and an increase risk for getting sick in my students and clients - and in myself. It was clear that we need to take some time to rebuild our storehouse of prāna - and as quickly as possible... we have a holiday season to not only just survive... but maybe even enjoy and come through with more love, more energy and more zest for the new year.  There are a lot of philosophical components and a bit of esoterica involved in developing this particular heart-centered guided awareness. But the key is to just do it and REPLENISH yourself... after all, the proof is in the puddin' and while students know and could go on and on about the deep underlying principles at play here, the most important thing is the practice!

This guided awareness was originally inspired by these words from Swami Tattvavidānada spoken in a course I attended. 
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"Yoga teaches you to love yourself, starting with the body." - Swami Dayānanda

"The heart that knows love, deeply relaxes in that love" - Swami Tattvavidānanda

"Start with the heart. Then move up, and the mind becomes silent" - Shankarācharya

4 Comments
Dana Locke link
12/26/2014 08:07:57 am

What a lovely gift! Thank you, Kaya. Being able to imagine myself in class with this deepens my relaxation.

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Cindy Perry
12/29/2014 04:18:04 pm

Thank you. This is wonderful.

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Anya Settlemeyer
5/3/2015 11:37:38 am

Thank you so much Kaya -- the guided shivasana and recommended poses will keep me on the path to yogify! Grateful for your heartfelt support!!

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Miranda
1/19/2016 02:12:28 am

Ahhhhh. Thank you!

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Kaya is the founder of SRY™ which is based in the full spectrum of the Vedic yoga tradition. She has been teaching therapeutic restorative yoga therapy since 2001. Kaya's work is healing, transformative, deeply rejuvenating and empowers her student and clients with wisdom and inner experience. Her trained in the full spectrum of the Vedic Tradition includes Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Prenatal Yoga, Ayurveda, Women's Health, Eastern Anatomy, Sanskrit, Vedic Astrology and Vedanta Philosophy. She collaborates with her husband Michael Manzella, a Vedic Astrologer, to serve yoga students and teachers who are inclined toward depth of inner experience and knowledge.  MORE ON KAYA
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