Lam Yoga 3.5

In a culture where we work hard and often play harder, we can find ourselves in a state of imbalance. This behavior has been called "the disease of being busy.”

We see a friend and we greet them with “how are you?” We often get back a laundry list of the many items on their “to do list” and how tired they are.

The Arabic culture asks another question: how is your heart? I love this. How is your heart right now, how is your spirit?

Lam Yoga offers a way to disconnect from the frenetic activity of daily life and connect with your spirit through restorative, slow flow yoga practice.

The Chopra Center says that a restorative yoga practice can slow down the pace of life, soothe the nervous system, encourage mindfulness, foster transcendence, cultivate a higher body awareness, deepen self awareness and introspection, help one to feel safe and nurtured, and connect one to the Divine and establish pure being. (http://www.chopra.com/ccl/10-benefits-of-restorative-yoga)

Our essential nature is boundless consciousness. We are rooted in it when the mind focuses and settles. ~ Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 1.3

The Spirit of the Warrior
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.
Just as when the waves lash at the shore, the rocks suffer no damage but are sculpted and eroded into beautiful shapes, so our character can be molded and our rough edges worn smooth by changes. Through weathering changes we can learn how to develop a gentle but unshakable composure. Our confidence in ourselves grows, and becomes so much greater that goodness and compassion begin naturally to radiate out from us and bring joy to others. That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training towards realizing it.

- Excerpt from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying By Sogyal Rinpoche