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This last week I have spent my mornings interpreti This last week I have spent my mornings interpreting my dreams. Sometimes it takes hours. I linger in bed, holding the tail end of my most recent dream, gently tugging it back towards me as I recall more and more details from earlier in the night. Then, I get up, make a cup of Cacao, place a bowl of Blue Lotus beside me, give gratitude for this plant medicine support, and start writing out my associations. (Yes, this is what my mornings have looked like the past few days. And no, I will not let my internalized capitalism shame me out of sharing it with you. Please read the PS and PSA at the end of this post.) In Yoga Sūtra I.38, Patañjali says that insights gained from sleep and dream states can be an antidote for the distractions to yogic practice: (illness, apathy, negligence, doubt, sloth, non-restraint, delusion, perspectivism, hyperactivity and inconsistency YS.30) I am new to this process, and yet even in my newness am finding incredible insights that address EXACTLY these things. I want to send a huge shout out to my teacher Angela Prider of @SacredLifeAnimism for putting together the 28-Days of Intentional Dreaming course. I have learned invaluable tools that I will be able to use for the rest of my life!! To all the yogīs out there: Based on my experience learning from Angela over the last 3+ years, I consider her to be expert on prakṛti. If you want to take sūtra II.21 seriously and tap into that support, I could not more highly recommend that you learn from her. Until next time, in dreamy practice, Tara PS: It has taken unearned privilege and a lot of personal work to get to a place where I have space for this kind of self-study practice. I am celebrating my choices. I am also mourning People’s general inability to choose this spaciousness due to widespread indoctrination of Imperialist philosophy. PSA: The ‘normal,’ under resourced, scarce lifestyle that I was taught is ‘just the way it is’ is NOT just the way it is! When we choose differently, we create a different world (see sūtra II.33-.35). Image description pinned in comments.
2015/09/26 - 2023/02/08 The end of the era of Rub 2015/09/26 - 2023/02/08 The end of the era of Ruby. 🚗 Another loss. Another space created for something new. One sweet, challenging, empowering day at a time. In practice, Tara Image descriptions: 1- Tara - in a white, thin body - standing beside a red Honda Fit giving a ‘thumbs up’ sign. They are wearing a grey hoodie and blue pants. 2- Tara eight years ago standing beside the same red Honda Fit giving a ‘thumbs up’ sign. They are wearing a grey t-shirt and blue pants.
I continue to struggle. Even when I know this is e I continue to struggle. Even when I know this is exactly what is supposed to be happening. Even when I know exactly what I am supposed to be doing. It’s really fricken hard. So I wrote this. The inspiration for whatever this is comes from these sūtras: nimittam-aprayojakaṃ prakṛtīnāṃ varaṇa-bheda-stu tataḥ kṣtrikavat (Yoga Sūtra IV.3) tadartha eva dṛśyasyātmā (YS II.21) tatas tad-vipākānuguṇānām-evābhivyaktir-vāsanānām (YS IV.8) kramānyatvaṃ pariṇāmānyatve hetuḥ (YS III.15) tad-asa ṅkhyeya-vāsanābhiś citram-api parārthaṃ saṃhatya-kāritvāt (YS IV.24) sati mūle tad-vipāko jātyāyur-bhogāḥ (YS II.13) Verily, Nature, differentiable into the causally efficient and the causally inert, serves the purpose of treating all things. Hence, it is like a farmer. (YS IV.3) The only purpose of what is seen is to serve the self. (YS II.21) Of the lingering effects issuing from these three types of action (enjoyment producing, pain producing or both), only those that are in conformity (to the Natural conditions) will ripen. (YS IV.8) The reason for the orderly change in objects is the transformation of other objects. (YS III.15) While (mentality) contains countless variegated tendencies and latent tendency-impressions, it exists for the sake of another (the Person) owing to its close contact (with Natural objects and Person). (YS IV.24) So long as this root exists, these (karmas) will ripen into a birth of a certain social status, a span of life and experience. (YS II.13) In practice, Tara Video Description: Tara – in a white, thin body – sitting outside, wearing a grey sweater with the hood up, and a grey toque. In the background is a wooden fence and a small evergreen tree. Link to full transcript pinned in comments.
Organized Ruin My last year is stacked Orderly I Organized Ruin My last year is stacked Orderly In organized ruin. Waiting to be attended to. The building of my life demolished. A wrecking ball of time Crashing through the brick and mortar that was my façade my support my protection my foundation. Now the pieces of my past sit Orderly. I have been placing them, brick by brick Stacking them And that work is now done. But I wiz by Taking the highway around the pieces That are waiting to be attended to. I peer over in curiosity out the drivers side window at a line of gargoyles placed side by side. I know this highway goes nowhere There is no way around this work. I invite myself in And I realize The hardest part is already done. The wrecking ball The lifting and stacking The organization. After destruction, creation comes. And that is my job now. To rebuild the building of my life. The same pieces. A different expression. Reinforced. I have rebuilt my life once before. And I can do it again. I don my hard hat, work gloves and steel toed boots. They are broken in. I feel the familiarity and comfort. I grab the first brick. Here we go. In practice, Tara Image description: a photo of Tara - in a white, thin body - smiling softly, standing outside in a grey sweater with the hood up. In the background are trees and the rising sun that is streaming over their right shoulder.
Want to listen in on the first yoga class EVER? Want to listen in on the first yoga class EVER? One of the earliest (if not the first) Yoga classes on record is documented in the Kaṭhopaniṣad, hundreds of years before the Yoga Sūtra was written. It is Yama, the god of Death, who teaches Naciketā, a young boy and sage, how to live a Yogic life. Scroll through the carousel and/or follow the description link pinned in the comments to explore this lesson in detail! In summary, here’s what we end up learning: There are two ways you can explain your life. The first is a Natural explanation. It involves a surrendering to cause and effect where you leave your life the way it is, allowing yourself to be moved and motivated by sensory experiences. The second is a Personal explanation. It involves the process of assuming control of one’s life through Self-responsibility, creating favourable circumstances where People are preserved. According to both Yama and Patañjali, this is a choice that you get to make – and are making – in every moment. Which are you choosing? Because in each and every moment you are a one Person revolution in process. What are you creating? Happy Sūtra 🪐day, Tara I am committed to teaching yoga without any paywalls. To support my work, pelase visit the link in my bio. Everything helps!
The earliest documentary evidence we have of Yoga The earliest documentary evidence we have of Yoga is in the second half of the Vedas. In early Vedic times, humans sacrificed non-human life as a payment to the gods and natural forces. Why? Because this was thought to effectively transfer the burden of suffering from humans onto non-human animals. This worldview employs the moral theory of Consequentialism, where the Good outcome (i.e. survival) justifies the Right choice (i.e. non-human animal sacrifice). Over time, people started to question their approach to living: - Why are evils necessary in order to survive? - What if no one had to suffer for my survival? - Is there a way to change the natural facts of the world? - Instead of me accommodating the world, should the world accommodate me? They began to formulate approaches to living where practical choices weren’t made as an attempt to avoid something Bad, but rather as an attempt to protect People. This shift from a consequentialist approach to a procedural approach became formalized over time in the school of philosophy called Yoga, where Right procedure (i.e. Yoga Sūtra II.1) causes Good outcome (i.e. YS I.21-.22). Scroll through the carousel and/or follow the description link pinned in the comments to explore this brief history in detail! And tomorrow, let's dive back into the Vedas and look at one of the first teachings of yoga philosophy EVER RECORDED! Until then, in practice, Tara I am committed to teaching yoga without any paywalls. To support my work, please visit the link in my bio. Everything helps!
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Tara lives and writes on Turtle Island, in the area colonially known as Canada. You can learn about Indigenous history in this area by clicking here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada. You can read very briefly about the inherently-colonizing intellectual history of the western tradition of thought by clicking here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CdY1ob1pzK5/.
"On Patañjali's view, health is not reducible to a biological state. It is an ethical state." - Dr. Shyam Ranganathan in his commentary on the Yoga Sūtra
We cannot approximate health without choosing to live in opposition to imperialist violence.
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