visit me on social media!
  thousand miles yoga
  • thousand miles yoga
  • blog
  • bio
  • testimonials

updates from Monday

3/20/2018

0 Comments

 
Yesterday was rough going until about noon. I was experiencing considerable shame and torment over the call with my sister the previous night, feeling terribly about how it seemed that my foul spirits had ruined her good mood. Upon sitting down to meditate I couldn’t even hold my concentration in the Dantien for more than a few seconds before my attention leapt back up to the Vishuddha / Ajna for a round of vicious abuse of myself or others. Using Inner Child exercises outlined by Gloria Steinem as well as strategies for dealing with Stuck-Energy as taught by Ana Forrest (in the Forrest Yoga teachers’ manual), I started consciously probing into the 2nd and 3rd chakras. Once I had gained a sense of what type of energetic being was inhabiting each zone (they differed from one another greatly, the one in the Manipura moving from a dark cloud to a curled-up child, the one in the Swadhisthana being nearly impossible to pin down beyond a sense that there was something there) I imagined moving loving energy down into the area from the Anahata while clearing out its smoggy bits using sharp exhales. Speaking out loud and directly into the 3rd chakra, on my sister’s suggestion I examined all the consequences of my tendency to self-sabotage, the hurt and pain and suffering it causes. Also, I acknowledged the various pieces of information stored in or coming from the Manipura while asking myself from whom I had learned to speak to myself primarily (and others secondarily) in such an angry, spiteful, and cruel way. Without ado the answer came: my father had spoken to me in said manner and I have been perpetuating his initial programming lo these nine years since he passed away. I then took the time to thank the element within the Manipura for doing what it thought was necessary while also letting it know that I will support it as it lets go of that learning and adopts new strategies for coping with life’s shifting demands. Immediately after this work I became very tired, physically and mentally. (This work took place at roughly 3 pm.) On the evening of the 19th I was able to meditate for a good fifteen minutes, my concentration hardly wavering from the region of the 2nd chakra. I decided to quit using my nicotine vaporizer with the first day of spring, mostly for health reasons but partly because I’m out of fluids and don’t want to spend money on buying more. On the morning of 20 Mar 2018, I had a succession of dreams during different periods of sleep. The first dream occurred in the period before my alarm went off at 444 am. I was in a tall, intact tower (built of glass and steel into at least seven sections), with a young person who at times wore the face of my nephew. Each section of the tower was essentially an open-air, glass-walled balcony hanging from a central torus. We were getting ready to move from the 3rd to the 2nd section of the tower via the elevator when I lost him in the crowd of people. Once on the elevator I was desperate to get down to the 2nd section, hoping I’d find him there, but a woman was using her left foot to block the door. I would lean down to hammer at the ‘close door‘ button, and each time I stood back up again, less of her was in the car until she was finally outside fully and the car was heading downward. A part of me knew she was waiting for a handicapable person who needed time to get to the lift but another part of me was frantic to find the young person I’d misplaced somewhere. Then, suddenly, I was on a grassy hill a half-kilometer from the building glassing it with binox, talking with an unseen figure sitting to my left rear about where the young person could be as I swept the building looking for his face.
The second dream occurred after I had been up for a half hour drinking green tea and getting ready to meditate. I was listening for information from the 3rd and 2nd about what to do when I got this clear message: We need rest; go back to sleep. Soon after laying back down I was dreaming of flying over a volcanic landscape in a makeshift winged bus with several other people. I was sitting in the way back watching the scarred landscape pass by below us, a great field of circular eruption-sites made up of hardened black lava. We were coming in for a landing on the main road of a small country town sitting atop a steep hill. On the road in front of us was horse-drawn cart that was trying desperately to get out of our way. The driver of the bus was yelling and cursing, at the horse-cart, which made clear just in time. Out makeshift airplane touched down barely a couple of hundred feet before the end of the road and a line of tall trees. At the last moment the pilot steered the plane to the right and brought us to a halt, which prompted me to applaud. The rest of the people in the airplane applauded with me but some of them asked why I had started at all, and I explained that his last-minute turn to the right had saved us. The others were not impressed.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    to the best of my ability I update this blog Sunday through Friday
    Picture
    Picture

    Author

    (1.877.294.6673 - [email protected])
    JPR is a member of the Hoop of the Forrest Yoga Teachers

    Archives

    August 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    December 2017
    September 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    November 2016
    November 2015
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013

    Categories

    All
    444
    4th
    Absorb
    Abuse
    Admonish
    Alarm
    Alpine
    Am
    America
    Ana
    Ana Forrest
    Anahata
    Anatomy Of The Spirit
    ;anel
    Anger
    Animal
    April
    Arms
    Assault
    Assuage
    Babi Guling
    Back
    Bag
    Balance
    Bali
    Battle
    Beach
    Beauty
    Bed
    Beginning
    Belief
    Bicycle
    Bisected
    Bit
    Block
    Block'
    Blond
    Blue
    Boat
    Bodhisattva
    Bowels
    Box
    Boy
    Brahmeri
    Breakfast
    Breath
    Brick
    Brush
    Build
    Building
    Burnt
    Ca
    Cable
    Cancer
    Canvas
    Car
    Catch
    Cavern
    Cereal
    Chain
    Chakra
    Chamber
    Change
    Channel
    Chi
    Chicago
    Childhod
    Childhood
    Chinese
    Ching
    Circle
    City
    Clad
    Clasped
    Clean
    Clearing
    Clear The Chakras
    Climb
    Closet
    Clue
    Collapse
    Community
    Compassion
    Compassoin
    Continue
    Courage To Heal
    Crowd
    Crude
    Cry
    Cubbyhole
    Cube
    Cup
    Daily
    Damaged
    Dantien
    Dark
    Dawn
    Day
    Deceased
    Dhanna
    Disc
    Discovery
    Dollars
    Dolphin
    Door
    Doughboy
    Dreadlocks
    Dream
    Dress
    Driver
    Drown
    Dune
    Eagle
    Early
    Earthen
    Earthly
    Embodying
    Emotion
    Empty
    Encase
    Energy
    Engineer
    Enoughness
    Established
    Exit
    Fade
    Fail
    Faith
    Fall
    Farm
    Father
    Fear
    Field
    Fill
    Fire
    Fit
    Fix
    Flight
    Floor
    Floral
    Flying
    Focus
    Food
    Forces
    Forearm
    Forrest
    Foundation
    Fourth
    Frozen
    Gambling
    Garden
    Glass
    Glee
    Goddess
    Gold
    Golf
    Grand
    Grasp
    Green
    Greet
    Gren
    Grin
    Ground
    Gunpowder
    Haiku
    Hair
    Half
    Han
    Handheld
    Hands
    Hanzi
    Har
    Hard
    Hardened
    Head
    Healing
    Heart
    Heidi
    Helmet
    Hill
    Hold
    Hole
    Ho'oponopono
    Hot
    House
    Hug
    Hwa
    Incense
    Indonesian
    Infinite
    Inner
    Insulation
    Intensive
    Interlocking
    Invisible
    Jackpot
    Jagged
    Jhanna
    Journey
    Joy
    Judge
    Lack
    Language
    Leg
    Lien
    Life
    Light
    Lit
    Locked
    Locker
    Locomotive
    Logs
    Long
    Loose
    Lost
    Lotus
    Lung
    Lurk
    Machine
    Man
    Marble
    Mat
    Mattress
    Meditate
    Meditation
    Meet
    Mental
    Million
    Mind
    Mine
    Mock
    Morning
    Mother
    Mountain
    Mouth
    Move
    Mudflat
    Muscle
    My
    Myss
    Northern
    Ocean
    On
    Opinion
    Orange
    Organic
    Out
    Outrigger
    Overcoat
    Oxygen
    Ozone
    Pagi
    Palm
    Panel
    Paper
    Parents
    Path
    People
    Phillips
    Photograph
    Pine
    Plastic
    Power
    Practice
    Practices
    Pregnant
    Private
    Psyche
    Pyramid
    Qi
    Qigong
    Queue
    Quiet
    Radio
    Railing
    Red
    Reef
    Return
    Rewrite
    Ridge
    Rise
    Rock
    Roof
    Room
    Rough
    Routines
    Ruin
    Ruined
    Salutation
    Salutations
    Sand
    Satellite
    Save
    Scotsman
    Screw
    Sea
    Search
    Secret
    Selamat
    Session
    Sexual
    Shadow
    Shake
    Shaky
    Shape
    Shoulders
    Sibling
    Sit
    Skin
    Sleep
    Slick
    Slide
    Slotted
    Slush
    Smile
    Snow
    Sock
    Sore
    Sormaz
    Space
    Speed
    Spirit
    Spit
    Spring
    Squeeze
    Staircase
    Stay
    Steam
    Steel
    Stone
    Strength
    Stretch
    Strong
    Structure
    Stuck
    Success
    Successs
    Sun
    Sun Salutations
    Supplication
    Surf
    Swastika
    Tall
    Tan
    Tanpan
    Taoist
    Tarpaulin
    Tea
    Teach
    Tee
    Tendril
    Textured
    Thaw
    Thor
    Thousand Miles
    Thumb
    Thursday
    Timber
    Time Of The West
    Toilet
    Top
    Tower
    Toxic
    Track
    Trail
    Transcend
    Translucent
    Travel
    Tree
    Trench
    Triangle
    Trough
    Tuesday
    Tunnel
    Turbo Dog
    Twin
    Twisting
    Ucla
    Unlocking
    Unseen
    Update
    Valtam
    Virtue
    Vishuddha
    Void
    Wake
    Walkway
    Wall
    Warrior
    Water
    Wave
    Weakness
    Wednesday
    Westwood
    White
    Who's Got Your Back
    Window
    Woamn
    Wolf
    Woman
    Wood
    Wooden
    Words
    Worry
    Wrapper
    Writing
    Yoga

    RSS Feed

Picture

    Please email us at [email protected], or fill out the form below. Thank you.

Submit
Proudly powered by Weebly