Lil Thoughts: Session 6 - Accessible Yoga Training

These thoughts are not endorsed by Accessible Yoga. I am sharing my personal thoughts that have arisen during classes. Any direct quotes from teachers in class will be clearly credited! Assume otherwise that anything written here is my own interpretation.

Class 6: Meditation

Word Count: 127

Reading Time: <1min

If the Essence of the 1st sutras is that:

• Our true Selves are not our bodies and minds, which are ever changing, but are Spirit, which is unchanging and eternal

• Yoga allows us to see this truth clearly & to experience the internal peace of Spirit Eternal and Pure Consciousness

and if

• Yoga is the practices and processes (including concentration & meditation) that allow us to the transcend the body-mind and asmita (ego; I-am-ness)

and if

• gender is an expression of embodiment, and therefore a reflection of attachment to body-mind

then

• gender is self, not Self, and

• the experience of yoga, of Pure Consciousness, of Spirit Eternal, requires the transcendence of gender as identity as much as it requires the transcendence of any other expression of body-mind

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