Yoga Sutra 1.12: “That stilling of the movements of the mind is through practice and dispassion.”
The Yoga journey can be seen as two wings of a bird. The first wing is practice, effort and dedication called abhyasa.
The second is dispassion, non-attachment, letting go, called vairagya.
Abhyāsa has two main facets. The first is daily practice, sadhana, whose root “sad” means effort. Sadhana is the consistent energy we invest in our daily practice with the understanding a practice or group of practices are maintained with enthusiasm and discipline until we experience their full benefit.
The second facet of abhyasa is conscious witnessing in daily living where we make a consistent effort to observe the movements of the mind while neither expressing, repressing or identifying with them, thereby gradually reducing their influence and their ability to generate limitation and suffering.
While practice is a foundation of the spiritual journey, it must be balanced with dispassion, vairāgyam. To gain material success at the level of the personality, effort and repetition are usually sufficient. At the level of the conditioned personality, that which we seek is outside of us in our surroundings, and the more effort we invest, the more likely we are to succeed. In the spiritual realm, however, that which we seek is our own true Being, already present and waiting to be recognized clearly. What stands between us and this recognition is attachment to all the things in our surroundings that we believe will make us happy and complete. Vairāgyam is seeing and releasing the mistaken belief that relationships, material possessions, personal power and self-image can provide the happiness and peace we seek.
Therefore, practice and dispassion are the two wings of the bird of Yoga that allow us to fly toward freedom.
Joseph Le Page
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Releasing the pain of the past occurs through forgiveness, remembering that forgiveness has a special meaning within Yoga. We envision forgiveness in 5 steps:
First, we recognize that all beings seek happiness and avoid suffering. People don’t hurt others intentionally, but as a form of defense to avoid suffering.
Second, we recognize that the negative actions of others are reflections of their level of consciousness and has nothing to do with us personally. Anyone who came across that person at that time will receive the same treatment as a reflection of their level of awareness.
Third, we recognize that we place ourselves in contact with difficult people or situations person as part of our own process of Self-understanding. We give ourselves the lessons we need to reveal limiting beliefs \calling for release. An example of a limiting belief is: “I can only experience love if someone else loves me”. We repeat these until we finally see the limiting pattern that needs to be released.
Fourth, with this understanding of how pain and misunderstanding occur, we recognize that, at times, others have felt hurt by us. For our part, it was not our intention to hurt anyone, but to be happy and avoid suffering by protecting ourselves. Our words and actions reflected our consciousness at that time, which was the result of conditioning which we received unconsciously. Now, as our level of consciousness expands, we wouldn’t speak or act in the same way. Embracing our own process of transformation, we offer forgiveness to ourselves.
Finally, we recognize that there were situations in the past when we feel hurt by others, and we may still feel the pain of those situations. Through our own process of Self-growth, we see that others were not trying to hurt us, but only to be happy and avoid suffering by protecting themselves. Their attitudes, words and deeds reflected their own limiting beliefs, which they may now be releasing. We also see that we placed ourselves in those situations to see and release our own limiting beliefs.
With this understanding, we offer forgiveness to others and thereby release the pain of the past. For a deeper understanding of the process of forgiveness, let’s experience a guided meditation by Joseph Le Page.
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From the Yoga perspective, perfect health is the integration of the five bodies, the five facets of our being called the five koshas.
These facets are your physical being, your energetic being, comprised of breath and subtle energy, your psyche-motional being, your body of wisdom and clarity, and your spiritual being, comprised of all your innate positive qualities.
We experience this integration of these five bodies with the following gesture and affirmation:
Place your hands in Hakini mudra and repeat three times aloud or silently:
“I experience complete health and healing through integrating all the dimensions of my being.”
Meditation for the perfect Health
We experience this integration through meditating on these five levels with the support of Hakini mudra.
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Shanti means “peace,” and also has a wide range of connotations including harmony, silence, forgiveness, protection, comfort, and even abundance. We chant Shanti three times at the beginning and end of any Yoga practice and each of these three Shantis has a special meaning.
– The first Shanti is called adhi daivika, and refers to Shanti on the spiritual level. This first Shanti is a wish for peace in our relationship with the universe. With Shanti at this level, our planets are aligned and we are protected from forces of nature.
– The second Shanti is called adhi bhautika, and refers to the intention to cultivate Shanti with all other beings. Through this second Shanti, we recognize that all beings wish to experience happiness and avoid suffering within the level of their understanding. When we meet people with little knowledge, we recognize that their actions and attitudes only reflect their level of awareness and are not directed at us personally. So, we can remain in Shanti without judging or criticizing.
– The third Shanti is called ādhy ātmika, and refers to cultivating Shanti within ourselves through the practices of Yoga and meditation. To cultivate Shanti within ourselves, we need to become aware of our own patterns of negativity, in order to gradually reduce them through the practice of Yoga. Among the three Shantis, this last one is considered the most important because it is the one in which we have the ability to gain complete mastery. The more we cultivate Shanti within ourselves, we automatically cultivate Shanti in others and in our relationship with the Universe.
After the three Shantis, we chant Hari Om. Hari is one of the names of Shiva, the patron of Yoga who helps us to cultivate Shanti at all levels of our being.
Try chanting OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Hari OM three times to affirm Shanti on all levels of your Being.
Shanti in the Bhagavad Gita
The practice of Shanti has great importance in Yoga texts. In the Bhagavad Gita 2.66, Krishna describes Shanti as follows:
“For the one who is not connected with their power of discernment, there is no wisdom; Without wisdom, there is no meditation; Without meditation, there is no Shanti; Without Shanti, how can one have happiness?”
Shanti no Mahabarata
The longest text on Shanti is in the Mahabarata, which has a whole chapter of 14,000 verses on Shanti. This text teaches all the ways we can achieve Shanti in this life and is divided into three main topics:
Shanti in Relation to Duties
– The first topic introduces Shanti which comes from doing our dharma in the right way. Dharma encompasses our life purpose, including profession and all relationships with family, friends, etc. All of these relationships should respect our roles and responsibilities and, at the same time, be true to our own Being. Because this is so challenging, we now understand why 14 thousand verses are needed!
Shanti in Relation to Challenges and Adversities
– The second topic presents how to maintain Shanti when facing adversity. This chapter highlights that we can’t practice Shanti only when things are going well. This is because the Universe is under the influence of the gunas, which are energies in opposition and thus will always produce ups and downs.
We need to use all experiences, both positive and negative, to cultivate wisdom and thus live with more Shanti. This topic also highlights that withdrawing from the world does not offer the possibility of Shanti because it does not offer the lessons, we need to transform challenges into opportunities, to transform problems into peace.
Shanti in Relation to Our Own Soul
– The third topic presents Shanti that comes from Yoga practices, including meditation, which leads to the recognition of our own True Being, our own Soul. It is only through the awakening of our own essence, whose nature is peace, that we can find Shanti in all facets of daily living. This blossoming of our inner Being simultaneously represents union with the Divine, the intelligence and energy at the heart of creation.
Through cultivating Shanti on all levels of our being, we gradually experience that our very nature is Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Hari OM.
Joseph Le Page
Joseph Le Page founded Integrative Yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy in 1993, and is a pioneer in the field of Yoga therapy training programs. He began teaching yoga therapy in hospital settings in 1995 and continues up to the present as Director of The Healthy Heart Program, which conducts Yoga Therapy group programs in public health settings in Brazil.
Joseph has been a speaker at major conferences including Yoga Journal, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the Kripalu Yoga Teacher’s Association, the International Association of Yoga and Ayurveda, and others. He is co-founder and director of the Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Garopaba, Brazil, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America.
He is the co-author of the book Yoga Toolbox for Teacher and Students, one of the most widely used materials in teacher training programs in the US and in Brazil, published by Integrative Yoga. He is also co-author of the book Mudras for Healing and Transformation, also published by Integrative Yoga.
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Chronic stress can create problems for our circulatory system, in the form of hypertension; for our digestive system in the form of indigestion; and for the nervous system in the form of headaches and insomnia. Did you know that chronic stress is also a major source of discomfort and pain in our muscles and joints? This is because one of the effects of the stress response is to contract the main muscles groups of the body in preparation to fight or flee when we meet a threat or emergency.
When this muscular contraction occurs occasionally in time of need, it is healthy and sometimes absolutely necessary. An example of this is when you are crossing the street and have to jump out of the way of an out-of-control vehicle. But, when stress becomes chronic due to traffic and deadlines at the office, muscle soreness and pain related to the stresses of daily living can result.
Chronic stress creates a vicious cycle
Pain, soreness and inflammation can occur due to chronic stress because when muscles are contracted, blood supply and oxygen to those areas is increased initially, but if the muscles remain contracted chronically, waste products build up and these areas become depleted of oxygen and nutrients. Movement becomes limited in these areas and inflammation and pain occur, which further restricts movement and circulation leading to more pain.
This creates a vicious cycle in which inflammation causes pain which leads to loss of movement which leads to more injury, which feeds right back into inflammation and pain. So, it becomes a never-ending loop.
Stress and chronic contraction of the muscles can also result in postural problems which are exacerbated by inadequate posture in daily living such as a position with the head forward toward the computer and other office related tasks. This lack of posture awareness at work and at home which is exacerbated by stress also becomes a source of postural problems, so we develop work habits which are reinforced by stress which tend to become Musculo-skeletal problems overtime.
These postural problems can lead to other problems including difficulty in performing daily tasks and activities and can also increase the possibility of other injuries, including falls when the structure of the body is not optimally supported.
Chronic stress can also affect our posture because the stress emotions of fear, anger and sadness can make postural problems worse. A slumped posture related to sadness or depression, or a chronically defensive posture related to anger can evolve into postural problems which cause tension, inflammation and pain.
Stress affects every part of the body, but the spine is especially vulnerable. The spine functions on the basis of natural curves which work like shock absorbers to receive the stresses of daily living. Chronic muscular contraction and poor posture reduce the ability of this shock-absorption system to function optimally. The spine is cushioned by a series of discs which require nutrition, hydration and circulation which they receive, in part, through healthy movement. The chronic contraction associated with the stress response reduces range of motion, nutrition and circulation to the spinal discs.
Yoga uses a multifaced approach to optimize posture and simultaneously reduce stress.
Yoga Exercise to reduce stress response
Yoga uses a multifaced approach to optimize posture and simultaneously reduce stress.
The warm-up movements release tension from every part of the body, facilitating healthy movement and increasing circulation and release of toxins from all the muscles.
The Yoga poses train every area of the body in optimal posture and strengthen the muscles and joints that support that posture. This is especially important in maintaining balance as we age in order to prevent falls.
The affirmations and gestures cultivate positive attitudes and qualities that serve as an antidote to stress.
The breathing techniques enhance circulation and the removal of waste products from the entire body. Something as simple as abdominal breathing works as pump to enhance circulation and elimination.
In deep relaxation, all the cells and tissues of the body are nourished and restored while inflammation is reduced.
In meditation, we become calm and centered with the entire body supported optimally in its ideal posture. This creates a deep body memory to remain calm, centered and aligned, not only in meditation but in daily livin
Joseph Le Page
Joseph Le Page founded Integrative Yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy in 1993, and is a pioneer in the field of Yoga therapy training programs. He began teaching yoga therapy in hospital settings in 1995 and continues up to the present as Director of The Healthy Heart Program, which conducts Yoga Therapy group programs in public health settings in Brazil.
Joseph has been a speaker at major conferences including Yoga Journal, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the Kripalu Yoga Teacher’s Association, the International Association of Yoga and Ayurveda, and others. He is co-founder and director of the Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Garopaba, Brazil, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America.
He is the co-author of the book Yoga Toolbox for Teacher and Students, one of the most widely used materials in teacher training programs in the US and in Brazil, published by Integrative Yoga. He is also co-author of the book Mudras for Healing and Transformation, also published by Integrative Yoga.
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Meets weekly on Tuesdays from 8:30-11:30 AM Mountain Time
To integrate Yoga into mainstream healthcare, we need carefully designed programs that have been extensively tested and fully encompass the various aspects of Yoga. These programs provide participants with a comprehensive experience of Yoga and its healing benefits. Additionally, Yoga teachers and therapists who wish to work in this space need specialized training on effective communication in healthcare settings. This course is specifically designed to meet these needs and more.
Joseph Le Page has been bringing Yoga into mainstream healthcare for over 30 years. Through the Heathy Heart Program, he has created a Yoga-based wellness program that is practical, cost-efficient, time-tested. This program is applicable to a wide range of health conditions with a stress component, including hypertension, heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, anxiety and depression, body pain, especially low back pain, headache and digestive problems, among others.
In this course, participants will study the Healthy Heart Program as a foundation for understanding how to bring Yoga into mainstream healthcare settings. Upon completion, participants are certified to teach the Healthy Heart Program and also receive a complete package of materials including scripts for each week of the 12-week program.
Participants also learn to integrate each of the facets of Yoga, including Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Yoga Nidra, Affirmation and Meditation to support the healing process. They also learn how to develop multiweek Yoga-based wellness programs on themes that they would like to bring to healthcare mainstream settings such as Yoga for depression and anxiety.
Participants will experience and learn to teach each of the weeks of the Healthy Heart Program, each of which is based on a specific theme. These themes include:
A new vision of the health: Introduces participants to stress-related dis-eases and importance of self-care.
Developing a body positive attitude: Introduces the importance of body awareness, self-care, and a positive attitude toward the body.
Cultivating healthy posture: Introduces concepts of optimal posture, posture awareness and postural care to avoid injury.
Cultivating healthy lifestyle: Understanding the importance of diet, daily routine, and sleep in relation to health and healing.
Optimizing Your Breath: The importance of breath in relation to health and in developing psycho-emotional equanimity.
Learning to relax: The importance of relaxation and presentation of varies relaxation techniques, recognizing that different people relax differently.
Cultivating vital energy: Introduces the chakra system as a way of enhancing vitality to different areas and systems of the body.
Becoming comfortable with Feelings: Introduces the concept of the witness and the ability to observe sensations, thoughts and feelings rather than react to them unconsciously.
Opening the Heart: Cultivating the qualities of the heart, including forgiveness, compassion, acceptance and gratitude.
Understanding the causes of stress: Introduces the concept of recognizing the underline beliefs that cause stress and dis-ease.
Meditation: the art of living in peace: An introduction to meditation with varies techniques allowing us to see that meditation is an individual process.
Identifying life’s purpose and meaning: Introduces the importance of identifying that which has true value and meaning in one’s life.
Participants learn to combine Yoga tools and techniques, including Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, affirmation, relaxation and meditation with each theme, so that every week in an integrated experience of healing. Participants also receive a manual with complete information scripts and teaching instructions for each of the twelve weeks of the Healthy Heart Program.
Required reading:Mudras for Healing and Transformation, by Joseph Le Page and Lilian Aboim and Why Zebras don’t get Ulcers, by Robert Sapolsky
Fees, Eligibility and Continuing Education:
All sessions will be recorded in the event you are unable to attend live
This course is open to all Inner Peace Yoga Therapy students as well as yoga teachers/yoga therapists from other schools
For those already certified as Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT), this course offers 36 hours of continuing education via Approved Professional Development
This course qualifies for 36 hours of Continuing Education from the Yoga Alliance
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I relate to you the means to be employed for the destruction of dis-ease; Without the practice of yoga, how could knowledge set the Atman free? Inversely, how could the practice of yoga alone, devoid of knowledge, succeed in the task? The seeker of Liberation must direct his energies to both simultaneously.
– Yogatattva Upanishad verses 14–15
Human evolutionary history is characterized by ever increasing cognitive abilities that provide an evolutionary advantage in terms of survival, success, and procreation. These advances have made us the dominant species on the planet today. Evolution as we know it has always focused on competing and succeeding for resources, procreation and social hierarchy. From the spiritual perspective, the ultimate intention of evolution is more than just fulfilling basic survival needs. This can be seen by the fact that the problems and risks presented by our focus on material evolution now outweigh the benefits because our drive to expand, compete, conquer and succeed seem to be taking us toward the extinction of the planet and the human race as a species. Evolution is now heading into a new phase which can be called survival of the most spiritual. The levels of stress and stress-related illness have become so high that success now needs to be seen in terms of quality of life, self-knowledge and the ability to live in cooperation and community.
Some neurological research supports this through the changes observed in the brain structure of meditators. Research has shown that meditators’ brains lose less gray matter with aging (UCLA Florian Kurth). Research also found that meditation increases the cortical thickness of the hippocampus related to regulation of emotion while decreasing the cell volume in the amygdala which is related to the fight or flight response. In the traditional model of survival of the fittest, this could be a disadvantage, but in an environment in which the true threat is chronic stress and not the saber-toothed tiger, it becomes an advantage.
It was also found that these changes in the brain are associated with improved mood and well-being, which in a stressful environment, promotes not only health but also success in any area of activity. Meditation also improves concentration and attention, essential skills for success and achievement in any area (Michael D. Mrazek). Additionally, a study found that meditators live longer and have a much lower risk of heart disease and cancer. These benefits are not limited to meditation but are also true of those who practice any type of spirituality. A study from Duke University showed that for those with any form of spiritual support, rates of serious illness can be up to 40% less. (Harold G. Koenig, M.D)
These studies point to the possibility that the future of evolution, traditionally understood as survival of the fittest, may, in the modern context, mean survival of the healthiest, which, can be translated as those best able to cope with stress. As we have seen, spirituality is one of the best supports for coping with stress.
Spirituality also instills a sense of oneness with creation and a sense of respect for and unity with the natural world. Therefore, if evolution takes us to greater levels of success as a species, spirituality may now be its truest expression and perhaps the only solution for the future of our planet and humanity.
Reflection: Is there any other alternative for the evolution of the human species if not through recognition of our inherent wholeness in oneness with all of creation?
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International Yoga Day, made official by the UN in 2014, aims to raise awareness about the benefits of Yoga. The date is celebrated around the world, with the idea of promoting better global health.
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Mudras are gestures of the hands, face and body that promote physical health, psychological balance and spiritual awakening. The Sanskrit word mudra, which is pronounced “mudraa” with the emphasis on the final “a,” can be translated as “gesture, seal, attitude or signature.” Mudras are gestures that evoke psychological and spiritual attitudes, each with its own specific quality or unique signature. The word mudra is derived from two Sanskrit root words: mud, which means “delight, pleasure or enchantment,” and rati, which means “to bring forth.” Mudras therefore bring forth our own inherent delight and enchantment, which are always present and waiting to be awakened.
The use of mudras is most strongly identified with Indian spiritual traditions in which they have been used for more than two thousand years. However, mudras are also found in various religious traditions around the world, including Christianity, where Christ is often depicted using hand gestures. Some mudras are almost universal, and one of the most easily recognized is the prayer position in which the hands are placed together in front of the heart as a symbol of reverence and devotion. Within the Indian spiritual tradition, this gesture is called Anjali mudra.
Origin and Evolution of Mudras
Gestures of the hands, face and body are part of our everyday body language. When the arms are crossed in front of the chest, it sends a message of defensiveness. When the head hangs forward, it may send a message of sadness. Clenched fists are often a sign of anger. Touching the tips of the fingers together suggests a pensive mood and raised eyebrows can show surprise or disbelief. These gestures are a non-verbal language that, often unconsciously, communicates moods, intentions and attitudes.
When gestures of the hands, face or body are consciously used to evoke psychological or spiritual attitudes, they are called mudras. Subtle qualities, such as unity and limitlessness which cannot easily be expressed within the confines of language, find full expression through the use of mudras. In Shamanism (one of the earliest forms of spirituality) sound, movement, and gestures of the hands, face and body are used to invoke the deeper sacred energies of the universe. The shaman transmits these energies through rituals that include the use of gestures to support health, healing and spiritual connection. Various forms of Shamanism are found around the globe, but in India, the impulse to unite with the sacred source of creation evolved into an in-depth science, with the practice of mudras as one of its main expressions.
The rishis, the great sages of ancient India, explored states of deep spiritual union through meditation. Mudras arose naturally as an expression of these meditative states. They were then employed to call forth these meditative experiences, thereby allowing the experiences to be shared with their initiated disciples. The ultimate wisdom revealed during the meditative experiences of the ancient seers is one of unity beyond all dualities. The journey toward unity encompasses a wide range of spiritual qualities, such as discernment, limitlessness, wholeness and compassion. Mudras are vehicles to awaken these individual qualities, leading us toward a global vision of unity.
Each of the deities within Indian art and sculpture embodies a specific spiritual quality. Many of these deities are depicted holding mudras that reflect and communicate these qualities. The many statues and images showing the deities holding mudras highlights their important role within the development of spirituality on the Indian subcontinent. Among the oldest of these images are statues and paintings of the Buddha from approximately 2,000 years ago in the Ellora and Ajanta caves in India.
During the period of Tantra in India, ranging from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, the use of mudras evolved into the fully developed form we know today. In Tantra, the body is seen as a sacred sanctuary of spirit, a microcosm of the Divine. The transformation of the physical body into a temple of spirit occurs through the performance of elaborate rituals that make use of sacred sounds called mantras, sacred geometrical forms called yantras, and the extensive use of mudras.
Beginning in the eleventh century, the body-oriented approach of Tantra gave birth to the science of Hatha Yoga. This approach to Yoga uses the physical body as a primary vehicle for spiritual development, leading to liberation. The texts of the Hatha Yoga tradition outline the practices of Yoga within a framework of stages or limbs, which include mudra. The importance given to mudras within these texts is highlighted in numerous sutras, including the following from the seventeenth century Hatha Yoga text, the Gheranda Samhita (sutra 100):
“What more shall I tell thee? There is nothing in this world like mudras for giving quick success (along the spiritual path).”
The importance given to mudras in iconography, Tantric ritual, and the texts of Hatha Yoga demonstrates the key role they have played within the overall evolution of Indian spirituality.
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From March 2nd to 9th, 2024, Joseph Le Page, Maria Mendola and the Enchated Mountain team invite you for the Ayurveda and Yoga Healing Retreat. This retreat offers you a full week of healing with Ayurvedic treatments, Yoga classes with a focus on healing all facets of your being, nourishing and delicious vegetarian and/or vegan meals and walks along some of the world’s most beautiful coastline.
The site for your retreat is Enchanted Mountain Center, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America. The accommodations are comfortable and there is a natural pool fed by a freshwater spring on the premises. The center has its own Ayurvedic spa offering a complete range of ayurvedic massage and other treatments. Enchanted Mountain is located on one-hundred acres of tropical rainforest with over two hundred varieties of birds including toucans and the beautifully colored surucuá.
The center is in Garopaba, in the south of Brazil, home to ten of Brazil’s most beautiful beaches and mountains draped in rainforest. Your host for the healing retreat is Joseph Le Page, founder of Integrative Yoga Therapy, one of the pioneers in the Yoga Therapy field.
Joseph, along with Maria Shamas, and the English – speaking Enchanted Mountain team, will offer daily healing yoga classes as well as pranayama, meditation, Yoga nidra and restorative Yoga. Each day will offer healing experiences for a specific facet of you being, including healing the physical body, healing the chakras, healing the mind and emotions, and healing into a deeper connection with our spiritual being.
Ayurvedic treatments are included in your retreat – one Shirodhara treatment and two Ayurvedic Massages. You can book additional treatments for your leisure time. You will also experience three walking trips to some of the world’s most beautiful coastlines and have time to lounge on pristine uncrowded beaches as well as secluded waterfalls.
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