Yoga Body Buddha Mind on Beliefnet.com
In addition to the Cyndisphere, which journals my travels and offers some yoga teaching, I have started another new blog called Yoga Body Buddha Mind. It is sponsored by the excellent Beliefnet.com. It will offer tips for how to find yoga (integration) and Buddha (wakefulness) in every day life. Today was my first entry. Check it out at
http://blog.beliefnet.com/yogabodybuddhamind/
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 am
Cyndi, a few months ago, I lost a dear friend. Bandit, a sweet freckle-faced Brittany Spaniel I adopted from the SPCA over a decade ago, had reached the point when his little body could barely function. I hated being the one to decide his last day, but I couldn’t see him suffer anymore. The vet came out to my house and after a really lovely June morning spent laying on the grass under the blue sky, Bandit died in my arms. I could feel his body just completely relax and let go of all of the pain. And I am happy that he is no longer hurting, but I miss him so much and don’t know how to let him go. Every day he would remind me about joy, even when he couldn’t see, could barely walk or even stand and suffered from incontinence, diabetes and kidney failure. Even those last moments of his life, he reassured me with lots of kisses. I should have been the strong one. I try to remind myself he’s in every beautiful thing I see, smell, feel and hear. But I still feel like the weight of sadness and grief of losing him is sinking me. What do I do? I know he was ‘just a dog’ as some would say, and others endure losing parents and husbands and wives and even children. I don’t know how they manage, how they get out from under the sorrow. I practice yoga, and it helped greatly in the final months of Bandit’s life. It helped keep me focused enough to provide the care he needed. But now, even my practice seems sad and dark and often ends in tears. What should I do?
November 10th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Hi,
Yoga is beneficial for the health in ways that modern science is just beginning to understand. Even though it has beenapplied with therapeutic intention for thousand of years, Yoga Therapy is only just now emerging as a discipline initself.
More health care practitioners are starting to include yogic techniques in their approach to healing — andmore yoga teachers give a therapeutic intention to their teaching. People who have never tried yoga before are startingto consider including Yoga in their treatment plan.
As science begins to document the importance of understanding the interrelation of all existing things, it looks to Yogawith an intrigued eye, for Yoga speaks Unity in every word. As yoga techniques are researched and new data is gathered,it becomes easier for science and the medical establishment to understand and accept the benefits of Yoga Therapy.Yet there is still not one consensual definition of the discipline.
In order to arrive to an adequate definition and tocome up with proper standards for Yoga Therapy, it is crucial at this early stage to properly address some delicateprofessional and ethical issues. At the same time it is important to educatethegeneralpublic about Yoga Therapy’sbenefits and careful use.
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November 11th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Great post. New to your blog, but you got great writing style. You had some very interesting points that I liked. Looking forward to more of your thoughts.