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The Joy of Living | Saturday 17th August 2019

Life is made of the meaning we give the cosmic soup served to us by God. It is a process of meaning-making from the time we are born. The meaning we bring to each moment becomes the memories that remain long after we are gone. We are alive to meaning and the richer its process the more fulfilled we feel at any point Life has over time meant something more substantive than the harsh material lived reality of a currency used to measure human worth as data. I thought about it at a crisis point when my own life felt meaningless worthlessness and worthyness


Dance is not something we speak – as per eminent Odissi danseuse Sujata Mohapatra everything is the dance, what we eat matters as much as what we say thnk do and feel While we count out sequential steps in a daily time cycle composed of a typical programme for a creatively intelligent being to use its energy forces wisely at the highest resonance of inspirational potential possibilities, alignment of values and real needs calculations - that moderated truth - creating barriers in solving the equation of art and science by using a lifescience common denominators.


These 3 are the xyz variables common to art and science as the magic formulae for a potent solution that dissolves complex challenges made up of deeply rooted problems designed on the wrong assumptions which generated too weak solutions for the depth of problem to be explored by chemical engineers who get chemistry in a jar - as nuclear atomic war games on a mass scale. I imagine cancer is such a war within the body..


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It is a cold, rainy morning in Cape Town and I am preparing to teach a Yoga class at the Melomed Tokai Hospital's Lifeskills Centre - and pondering this question at the Art of Living Claremont Centre where I enjoyed last night's Yoga class taught by Ayurvedic & Yoga Therapist Pramilla Vassen.


For me, Vitality means 'Prana' the Vedic word for 'vital life-force' which has has 5 sources:

[Sun]-Light

Sleep

Nutrition

Breathing

Meditative Knowledge | Contemplation of Reflective Truth


I understand Vitality as an outward expression of our lifeforce energy. For me, that state refers to a novel, inner directive energy known as creative intelligence or for some, consciousness. So off the top of my head ... I find myself asking:


How might Yoga be a form of innovation in modern healthcare, lifescience, wellness?

How might it be true that Yoga is an innovation? And for who is it not true?

If it is true for me that Yoga is an innovation, how do I absolutely know it to be true?

How do I react and what happens when I believe my own thoughts as the truth?

Who would I be without that thought ... without the knowledge of Yoga?

What do I know as a Yoga teacher about innovation and what dont I know?

How do I understand the construct of Vitality?

Why does the Roman Catholic Church not advocate Yoga?

Can an Ai Robot be a Yogi? Or an instructor of Yoga?

Can Yoga be practiced in space e.g. on the Moon?


These questions fuel my curiosity enough to switch over to the Google search engine for a cursory look at who else might be asking or interested in this line of questioning. There are some 3-million resulting connections [skewed by SEO capability] as we explore a C8 journey for yoga as a lifeskills innovation in modern psychiatry, psychology and occupational therapy.


The construct of Yoga was codified 2000 years ago by the Vedic scholar Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras - and is still used as the handbook for Yoga Teacher Training in the 21st Century.


Below, my Guru H.H. Sri Sri Ravishankar provides a short discourse on the Purpose of Yoga and some images of yoga postures as it relates to centredness, wisdom and the blossoming of human potential.








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