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PLEASE CONTRIBUTE
Hi, this is Don Salmon. I’ve been very fortunate to be associated with the LaGrace Center for several years, and have felt graced to be given the opportunity to contribute.
I’ve chosen to focus for now (as of winter, 2023) on contributing to this Practical Integral Yoga forum. At present, I’m thinking of posting in 2 basic categories:
(1) Psychic and spiritual development and awakening
(2) Preparation of the mind, life and body, to assist in psychic and spiritual development and to make them more well integrated instruments of the soul and the Self.
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What are you interested in, in regard to practical Integral Yoga? Do you need help contacting the soul or the Self? Are you particularly aware of challenges in your thinking mind, in your emotions or instincts? Do you have special areas of life you’d love to explore?
Please feel free to comment and to put up your own posts. All kinds of writing (and images and videos if you’d like to link to or upload them) are welcome. You can write a 1 sentence (or 1 word!) comment and you can write a very brief post if you like. Long comments and long posts are welcome too. My preference is to keep this as down-to-earth and practical as possible, but I’d prefer to trust you to express what your deepest heart needs to express than to make specific rules.
What are you looking for, what are you hoping to hear about in terms of learning more about practical integral yoga?
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Hey Don, it would be wonderful if you could share with us one practical exercise or practice each day. I’d love to wake up in the morning and see what you suggested and then practice it during the day. Is this possible?
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Hi Radhe:
Good idea. I’m still exploring how to arrange this forum, which is why I asked for contributions.
So, taking your suggestion:
I’ve done, for the most part, less than 10 practices regularly over the 45+ years of daily practice. And it’s so interesting – doing one practice for many years, you start to find it’s never the same from day to day, even – if you practice more than once in a day – from practice session to practice session!
I could imagine taking something as utterly basic and simple as breath awareness, and explore every day for a month, and describe how different it is each time.
The other challenge I’m having is that I’ve learned practices from many different teachers and different traditions. This group is about integral yoga practice – but both Mother and Sri Aurobindo have included practices from many traditions, though this is not commonly spoken of in IY circles!
So what practices do I choose?
I’ll tell you what – on your suggestion, I’m going to start a separate discussion thread – “Practices I’ve Found Supportive of Integral Yoga in My Life.”
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