Today we had a beautiful start to the morning, we did sun salutations in nearly 10 different languages! It was a great representation of the multiculturalness of our course, and that yoga is not just for Indian people.
It feels like the western world in this day and age is more interested in yoga than Indians. However I have also noticed that the traditional Indian lifestyle incorporates many yogic principles. Simple things my mother taught me seem to make sense now (yes 10 years later~ at least I got there!) I’ve come to realise much of what I thought was boring religious stuff was/is actually Bhakti yoga, and meditation. For example as a child my mother told me and my siblings to chant om on mara (prayer beads) before we went to sleep @ night before we went to sleep. She also taught us a mantra called the gayatri mantra “om bhur bhave swaha….” which I am have been able to chant from the age of 7.
Mantras are primordial sounds that help tame the subconscious mind and open
I have just been reading some of patanjlis sutras by Swami Satchinananda, I like this quote:
“The entire outside world is based on your thoughts and mental attitude. ”
Once you start thinking in this manner the world around you changes…no longer do u dwell over disasters, they are lessons to be learnt in life.