Friends,
Thank you all for your support as I attempted an article writing endeavor with Vision Magazine. Vision magazine enjoyed the article but required more changes to be made before it could be published, hence my writings will not appear in the issue for Jan 09 as the publisher needed to close the application process for articles this week.
I really enjoyed the experience and now I am determined to write and submit more articles to local magazines and newspapers frequently. I am happy at this time to set my New Years Resolutions:
I am resolved to care for my physical well-being by receiving three massages monthly and gaining 15 healthy pounds of body muscle.
I am resolved to be a leader by building community and help all of the world learn and grow to connection and peace.
I am resolved to become a citizen of the world by get my passport and travel.
I am resolved to learn and grow in ways that allow me to be economically supportive of my community and my personal well-being.
I am resolved to take action in areas of my life where I can improve my abundance and wealth.
I am resolved to publish three different articles this year, and submit at least six times.
I am resolved to integrity of body, mind, and spiritual practices such that my mirror in the year 2009 is loving, trusting and successful relationships.
In Joy,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Yogi Alchemist Adept
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Article for Vision--Not Published
In the fall of 2008, I was feeling as whipped by storms – in my case, emotional storms -- as the coastal pine trees that surrounded me on Neptune Ave near the shores of Leucadia's Stone Steps beach. Barely aware of my environment as I struggled inwardly, I brushed away the spirit tears that dropped from the pine needles above me.
My business partners' voice rang clearly through my cell, "For you, Trevor, regeneration is defined as a loss of your old path, and the spontaneous fulfillment of the void created in that loss through a new inspired idea." . The pine needles were dripping with water as if the tree itself were a rogue cloud. My business partners' voice rang clearly through my cell, "For you, Trevor, regeneration is defined as a loss of your old path, and the spontaneous fulfillment of the void created in that loss through a new inspired idea."
Like all new beginnings, this one started with an end. An end to former beliefs as my true path became clear. For many months, I had been glimpsed this new idea that dived in and out of my consciousness. It was an idea that was to impact my career -- my quest to change the world – and all the facets of my life. The idea was simple in its truth. Everyone I met could be touched by a sense of community, an outreaching of heart energy that would lift one's spirit, calm the mind and heal the body.
That night, my friend's words touched my core. She had witnessed the spiritual pubescence that I had recently experienced and well understood that the growth spurt had only just started. I was aware that those past experiences enabled me to break through my barriers of selfishness into realms of giving from a limitless place. I needed to pass through these layers of my fear and to embrace the opportunities to fail, be vulnerable, and to love.
Out of my own fear I was reminded that earlier this year (first quarter 2008), the yoga school where I once did teacher training had closed due to some issues with and among the community. An internal change began when I heard the news and then saw the empty studio in the heart of downtown Encinitas. In this place that had housed two decades of yoga and teacher trainings, I now saw only paper-covered windows. I asked myself what had changed, and then remembered that it was not so much important what had changed but that something had changed.
Later, I found out that my old school was full of asbestos and had to be entirely torn apart before a new renter could come in. I again realized that teaching there had been unhealthy for me and for my integrity. I was appalled by knowing that I'd been involved with a place that was holding classes for health and advocating the healthy practice of yoga in rooms where it was dangerous to breathe anything that chipped away from the walls. In that moment, I called my words and actions into question, and assessed, as any practicing yogi would do, if I was still in that space of communicating ignorantly. A frightening shudder passed through me when I realized how much more of the asbestos I was likely to have inhaled while cleaning the popcorn ceiling, and how, in encouraging my students to breathe deeply during classes, they were possibly breathing poisons into their system.
It was time for the art of giving and receiving to evolve. I understand then that I was to pioneer a new way of giving as the foundation of my business and to support a new, community-oriented system of donation-based teaching resulting in a community where people respect and honor each other from a place of clarity and love.
Having not yet traveled beyond the realm of San Diego, or for that matter, the United States, I searched for guidance in the memories of my younger days at schools, with their various teachings and apprenticeships that claimed to be "the best" and most deeply rooted in "tradition." I have always been a student in search of a history that made sense, seeking a traditional, logical approach that delivered repeatable results and showed success for generations. I understood and believed that these established schools and teachers would provide me with the depth of study in yoga and business that would not be offered by "run of the mill" facilities or by new "up and coming" master teachers.
The teachers I found and the trainings I attended gave me a sense of depth and training that I felt was necessary to be "the best" or to at least be backed by a certification in an art with a history of success. I repeatedly learned from all my trainings and teachers, from 2005 to 2007, that those who teach and follow their traditions and belief systems in an extreme way, also tended to be extremely inflexible. Their paths in business and life orient them in a way that seemed narrow-minded. Today, I see that everyone must do what is in their current evolution to do and they are only capable of working with the opinions that they think they know.
I, like many others in my life, never considered that which I knew, but only what I was pretending not to know. Hence, I worked for free for much of 2005 through 2007, teaching yoga as an apprentice teacher and learning business, sales, and marketing as an administrative assistant to a local CEO.
In January 2008, something amazing happened. After the collapse of my former school. I took a teaching position at Yoga Swami studio, a donation-based studio in Encinitas on the 101 Coast Highway. I was naive to the ways of donation-based teaching and community organization, but I saw this as a challenge to my natural sense of business and sales, and a challenge of the "way I was being." For months, I was grumpy at the idea of not having a set margin of income from my teaching. I struggled and learned through trial and error that it was going to take way more "genuine giving" to create regular attendance and regular donations.
This is when the shift occurred inside of me, some time near my birthday in July 2008. I realized through a series of conversations with former mentors and other students that I was selfish and abundance had a tremendous opportunity to flow freely if I just let go of the "me" and the "I." I changed the weekly communications in my email newsletters to include other teachers' events. I began to use the inclusive "our" in my written and oral communications, and I began sharing of myself, and then community sharing. In my mind, this process will eventually lead to global and universal sharing. I truly believe that when people are involved in global sharing that all of humanity will find peace.
A great regeneration has occurred within, but only after all that made me selfish and all that I was taught as a business professional was shed and peeled back like the openings of a fresh cocoon by an emerging butterfly. This same regeneration will occur for all of society in America as we move into a conscious future where business will be based entirely on the precept: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
It wasn't until I learned to shed my cocoon of the self and ego, that I could thrive in an environment that has shut down so many businesses who took for themselves what was given to the community. At Yoga Swami, I was given the freedom to grow my community and teachings any way that I felt was honest and true as long as it followed the principles of yoga and Ahimsa (to do no harm).
In 2008, I gave away my perspective of ever really "having" something or someone or some contract and allowed a sense of co-creation and community to grow in its place, a community where everyone was allowed to be at the same level and have the same responsibilities if that was truly desired.
After two and a half years of doing my own taxes and running Waking Within Yoga, now renamed Waking Within Community, I decided that I had the know-how to start a non-profit spiritual organization based in Carlsbad, California. The Sacred Spiral, a non-profit spiritual organization, was founded on the intention to "first do no harm" and to manifest community through honesty, sharing, and faith in holistic living. I envision a 2009, to be a year of success for those who hold the intention to heal the global community all the while symbiotically taking care of the individuals involved.
Now, for us as business professionals, but more importantly as community leaders, we use our time and communications to reach out to businesses and individuals who are willing to play the game of oneness or unity, the meaning of the word: yoga. In the past three months we have spend our thoughts, words and actions encouraging others to give like nothing will come in return except a fullness of one's inner faith and peace that will never run out. Members of Sacred Spiral know that it is in giving we receive and it is in letting go and dying that we will be born to abundant life.
Our dream is that Sacred Spiral will one day provide donation-based spirituality classes, holistic health education programs, including a library of holistic history and metaphysics located on a sustainable farming facility. We hope by doing our best with what we know to be fair, we can offer permission for others to do the same.
Practice Lightly On Our Earth,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within (Yoga Community)
http://www.thesacredspiral.org/
www.meetup.com/alchemy
TheSacredSpiral@gmail.com
My business partners' voice rang clearly through my cell, "For you, Trevor, regeneration is defined as a loss of your old path, and the spontaneous fulfillment of the void created in that loss through a new inspired idea." . The pine needles were dripping with water as if the tree itself were a rogue cloud. My business partners' voice rang clearly through my cell, "For you, Trevor, regeneration is defined as a loss of your old path, and the spontaneous fulfillment of the void created in that loss through a new inspired idea."
Like all new beginnings, this one started with an end. An end to former beliefs as my true path became clear. For many months, I had been glimpsed this new idea that dived in and out of my consciousness. It was an idea that was to impact my career -- my quest to change the world – and all the facets of my life. The idea was simple in its truth. Everyone I met could be touched by a sense of community, an outreaching of heart energy that would lift one's spirit, calm the mind and heal the body.
That night, my friend's words touched my core. She had witnessed the spiritual pubescence that I had recently experienced and well understood that the growth spurt had only just started. I was aware that those past experiences enabled me to break through my barriers of selfishness into realms of giving from a limitless place. I needed to pass through these layers of my fear and to embrace the opportunities to fail, be vulnerable, and to love.
Out of my own fear I was reminded that earlier this year (first quarter 2008), the yoga school where I once did teacher training had closed due to some issues with and among the community. An internal change began when I heard the news and then saw the empty studio in the heart of downtown Encinitas. In this place that had housed two decades of yoga and teacher trainings, I now saw only paper-covered windows. I asked myself what had changed, and then remembered that it was not so much important what had changed but that something had changed.
Later, I found out that my old school was full of asbestos and had to be entirely torn apart before a new renter could come in. I again realized that teaching there had been unhealthy for me and for my integrity. I was appalled by knowing that I'd been involved with a place that was holding classes for health and advocating the healthy practice of yoga in rooms where it was dangerous to breathe anything that chipped away from the walls. In that moment, I called my words and actions into question, and assessed, as any practicing yogi would do, if I was still in that space of communicating ignorantly. A frightening shudder passed through me when I realized how much more of the asbestos I was likely to have inhaled while cleaning the popcorn ceiling, and how, in encouraging my students to breathe deeply during classes, they were possibly breathing poisons into their system.
It was time for the art of giving and receiving to evolve. I understand then that I was to pioneer a new way of giving as the foundation of my business and to support a new, community-oriented system of donation-based teaching resulting in a community where people respect and honor each other from a place of clarity and love.
Having not yet traveled beyond the realm of San Diego, or for that matter, the United States, I searched for guidance in the memories of my younger days at schools, with their various teachings and apprenticeships that claimed to be "the best" and most deeply rooted in "tradition." I have always been a student in search of a history that made sense, seeking a traditional, logical approach that delivered repeatable results and showed success for generations. I understood and believed that these established schools and teachers would provide me with the depth of study in yoga and business that would not be offered by "run of the mill" facilities or by new "up and coming" master teachers.
The teachers I found and the trainings I attended gave me a sense of depth and training that I felt was necessary to be "the best" or to at least be backed by a certification in an art with a history of success. I repeatedly learned from all my trainings and teachers, from 2005 to 2007, that those who teach and follow their traditions and belief systems in an extreme way, also tended to be extremely inflexible. Their paths in business and life orient them in a way that seemed narrow-minded. Today, I see that everyone must do what is in their current evolution to do and they are only capable of working with the opinions that they think they know.
I, like many others in my life, never considered that which I knew, but only what I was pretending not to know. Hence, I worked for free for much of 2005 through 2007, teaching yoga as an apprentice teacher and learning business, sales, and marketing as an administrative assistant to a local CEO.
In January 2008, something amazing happened. After the collapse of my former school. I took a teaching position at Yoga Swami studio, a donation-based studio in Encinitas on the 101 Coast Highway. I was naive to the ways of donation-based teaching and community organization, but I saw this as a challenge to my natural sense of business and sales, and a challenge of the "way I was being." For months, I was grumpy at the idea of not having a set margin of income from my teaching. I struggled and learned through trial and error that it was going to take way more "genuine giving" to create regular attendance and regular donations.
This is when the shift occurred inside of me, some time near my birthday in July 2008. I realized through a series of conversations with former mentors and other students that I was selfish and abundance had a tremendous opportunity to flow freely if I just let go of the "me" and the "I." I changed the weekly communications in my email newsletters to include other teachers' events. I began to use the inclusive "our" in my written and oral communications, and I began sharing of myself, and then community sharing. In my mind, this process will eventually lead to global and universal sharing. I truly believe that when people are involved in global sharing that all of humanity will find peace.
A great regeneration has occurred within, but only after all that made me selfish and all that I was taught as a business professional was shed and peeled back like the openings of a fresh cocoon by an emerging butterfly. This same regeneration will occur for all of society in America as we move into a conscious future where business will be based entirely on the precept: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
It wasn't until I learned to shed my cocoon of the self and ego, that I could thrive in an environment that has shut down so many businesses who took for themselves what was given to the community. At Yoga Swami, I was given the freedom to grow my community and teachings any way that I felt was honest and true as long as it followed the principles of yoga and Ahimsa (to do no harm).
In 2008, I gave away my perspective of ever really "having" something or someone or some contract and allowed a sense of co-creation and community to grow in its place, a community where everyone was allowed to be at the same level and have the same responsibilities if that was truly desired.
After two and a half years of doing my own taxes and running Waking Within Yoga, now renamed Waking Within Community, I decided that I had the know-how to start a non-profit spiritual organization based in Carlsbad, California. The Sacred Spiral, a non-profit spiritual organization, was founded on the intention to "first do no harm" and to manifest community through honesty, sharing, and faith in holistic living. I envision a 2009, to be a year of success for those who hold the intention to heal the global community all the while symbiotically taking care of the individuals involved.
Now, for us as business professionals, but more importantly as community leaders, we use our time and communications to reach out to businesses and individuals who are willing to play the game of oneness or unity, the meaning of the word: yoga. In the past three months we have spend our thoughts, words and actions encouraging others to give like nothing will come in return except a fullness of one's inner faith and peace that will never run out. Members of Sacred Spiral know that it is in giving we receive and it is in letting go and dying that we will be born to abundant life.
Our dream is that Sacred Spiral will one day provide donation-based spirituality classes, holistic health education programs, including a library of holistic history and metaphysics located on a sustainable farming facility. We hope by doing our best with what we know to be fair, we can offer permission for others to do the same.
Practice Lightly On Our Earth,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within (Yoga Community)
http://www.thesacredspiral.org/
www.meetup.com/alchemy
TheSacredSpiral@gmail.com
Monday, October 6, 2008
Cheshire Cat Smile
Readers,
And suddenly it revealed itself to me as something that I knew had been there all along. I suppose me thing this that I chose Ignorance.
I chose awareness and as a result I am rewarding the world with a very big grin...cheshire cat smile. Sometimes in yoga classes especially the ones in which I am practicing and not teaching...I will smile in the front row in a mirrored classroom full of students.
My teeth are flashy white and my skin is olive so of course people get distracted enough to fall out of balancing poses. My old masters...those who trained me...hated when I would crack a cheshire cat smile.
One of my old friends who was also a disciple at this school of yoga, would crack the smile back even when he was teaching.
This is definately a trademark of my current incarnation...and I would like to let those curious readers become aware of my channeling of cheshire energy. I learned this many moons ago from a teacher and medicine woman who channeled more regularly and any other person I know. I don't wish to make channeling a habit but I do know that I have been working with the Cat/Jester entity for many years.
As a child, I would hiss and scratch other kids on the playground. My current favorite style of Kung Fu is Tiger Style. I even move more like a cat when I dance than any other boy I know.
I have as of 2008 become a Cougar/Jaguar energy and I often receive a message in my meditations in the form of a large cat running at me and exploding.
I have studied long and hard in regards to this and I believe that for the first time I am ready for the Shaman's Journey to the otherside/vision realm and to view myself in its Shadowy form.
"Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl." Jimi Hendrix. And whats that song, "give us a know it all grin" Building the Mystery by Sarah McLachlan
Now is the time whether or not the watchers are watching, I will prepare to journey from a human magician yogi alchemist boy....to a man of the Smiling Black Jaguar and Grinning Golden Cougar.
Saint Peter here I come. Ready?
go...
Sincerely,
Rev. Smiling Jaguar, Shaman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar
(with Editing by)
Varen, Alchemist
"Remember that a caterpillar perceives not what she can do as butterfly but simply that she must transform. When emerged from a transformation only then does she know the truth of her being a butterfly." -R. Acuna
PS. Someday learn about Death Yoga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantric_Buddhism
And suddenly it revealed itself to me as something that I knew had been there all along. I suppose me thing this that I chose Ignorance.
I chose awareness and as a result I am rewarding the world with a very big grin...cheshire cat smile. Sometimes in yoga classes especially the ones in which I am practicing and not teaching...I will smile in the front row in a mirrored classroom full of students.
My teeth are flashy white and my skin is olive so of course people get distracted enough to fall out of balancing poses. My old masters...those who trained me...hated when I would crack a cheshire cat smile.
One of my old friends who was also a disciple at this school of yoga, would crack the smile back even when he was teaching.
This is definately a trademark of my current incarnation...and I would like to let those curious readers become aware of my channeling of cheshire energy. I learned this many moons ago from a teacher and medicine woman who channeled more regularly and any other person I know. I don't wish to make channeling a habit but I do know that I have been working with the Cat/Jester entity for many years.
As a child, I would hiss and scratch other kids on the playground. My current favorite style of Kung Fu is Tiger Style. I even move more like a cat when I dance than any other boy I know.
I have as of 2008 become a Cougar/Jaguar energy and I often receive a message in my meditations in the form of a large cat running at me and exploding.
I have studied long and hard in regards to this and I believe that for the first time I am ready for the Shaman's Journey to the otherside/vision realm and to view myself in its Shadowy form.
"Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl, two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl." Jimi Hendrix. And whats that song, "give us a know it all grin" Building the Mystery by Sarah McLachlan
Now is the time whether or not the watchers are watching, I will prepare to journey from a human magician yogi alchemist boy....to a man of the Smiling Black Jaguar and Grinning Golden Cougar.
Saint Peter here I come. Ready?
go...
Sincerely,
Rev. Smiling Jaguar, Shaman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar
(with Editing by)
Varen, Alchemist
"Remember that a caterpillar perceives not what she can do as butterfly but simply that she must transform. When emerged from a transformation only then does she know the truth of her being a butterfly." -R. Acuna
PS. Someday learn about Death Yoga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantric_Buddhism
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Yes, I opened Pandora's Box
Welcome Friends,
Did you know that it's Mercury Retrograde at the moment, stay tuned and I'll explain?
So sometimes we have to open Pandora's Box in order to better understand and change our perspectives in regards to the way things are, were, and are becoming.
Enjoy...
***********************************
Dear Alaina,
I have to apologize to you and your mother. I am sorry and I would like to let you know that I understand now how much you and Victoria meant to me. Thank you for maintaining integrity of Self and of Love as it was years ago when we were once Friends/Lovers.
I remember great journeys and quest amongst the ghosts of Carlsbad and the rolling hills of Vista. Thank you for introducing me to an opening. I am free now due to both you and Victoria.
It is Mercury retrograde at the time I am writing this. Maybe like a message in a bottle this will reach you somehow. I would like to be your friend, and for what it's worth I would like to extend and invitation to you to collect on any promises that I made that when unfulfilled. For example, I am older and my perspective has changed enough...(due to the tortures gifted to me through The Yoga Room and Robert)...enough to ask you to take a trip to the snowy Sierra's with me...again.
Do you remember we wanted to go to Yosemite during the snow? We'll I am older and much less afraid...so let's do that...if anything I owe it to you.
Much as changed, and it was not until I completely moved through my lessons with Robert that I was able, about two months later, to see very clearly what I wanted and what things I destroyed on my path to the creation of certain ambitions.
I am not speaking to you as a different person, but simply more aware. So don't think that I have changed, I still have my ambitions. Just the other day, I received my Ordination from ULC, and I looked at the document with shock only to release that I am very much like your mother. I would like to make peace with her, she deserves it, you deserve it, Ramon and your Father deserve it.
I am a business owner now and I have been ever since I left you. I was ashamed of the situation and my lack of attention to you, and corrupt with the Yoga Room. Leah was the one along with the Sweat Lodge who allowed me to leave...and boy did they chase me and slander my name in Encinitas.
I am a teacher of Yoga and metaphysics, and I actually teach in Encinitas at Yoga Swami. I would like to meet with you sometime...like old times and maybe take a walk on the beach. I also direct a Church of Western Mysticism of which I founded.
I miss the kids...those stinky ferrets. I know you can't tell but I am smiling now. We had some great moments with the Ferrets.
Thank you.
I would like to let the universe take this message and my intention out into the world with all the strength and energy of Love, and manifest a will and a way to let us be friends again.
For your attention and reading this far, I am Greatful.
Sincerely,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
AKA Trevar
PS: My family says "Hello."
Did you know that it's Mercury Retrograde at the moment, stay tuned and I'll explain?
So sometimes we have to open Pandora's Box in order to better understand and change our perspectives in regards to the way things are, were, and are becoming.
Enjoy...
***********************************
Dear Alaina,
I have to apologize to you and your mother. I am sorry and I would like to let you know that I understand now how much you and Victoria meant to me. Thank you for maintaining integrity of Self and of Love as it was years ago when we were once Friends/Lovers.
I remember great journeys and quest amongst the ghosts of Carlsbad and the rolling hills of Vista. Thank you for introducing me to an opening. I am free now due to both you and Victoria.
It is Mercury retrograde at the time I am writing this. Maybe like a message in a bottle this will reach you somehow. I would like to be your friend, and for what it's worth I would like to extend and invitation to you to collect on any promises that I made that when unfulfilled. For example, I am older and my perspective has changed enough...(due to the tortures gifted to me through The Yoga Room and Robert)...enough to ask you to take a trip to the snowy Sierra's with me...again.
Do you remember we wanted to go to Yosemite during the snow? We'll I am older and much less afraid...so let's do that...if anything I owe it to you.
Much as changed, and it was not until I completely moved through my lessons with Robert that I was able, about two months later, to see very clearly what I wanted and what things I destroyed on my path to the creation of certain ambitions.
I am not speaking to you as a different person, but simply more aware. So don't think that I have changed, I still have my ambitions. Just the other day, I received my Ordination from ULC, and I looked at the document with shock only to release that I am very much like your mother. I would like to make peace with her, she deserves it, you deserve it, Ramon and your Father deserve it.
I am a business owner now and I have been ever since I left you. I was ashamed of the situation and my lack of attention to you, and corrupt with the Yoga Room. Leah was the one along with the Sweat Lodge who allowed me to leave...and boy did they chase me and slander my name in Encinitas.
I am a teacher of Yoga and metaphysics, and I actually teach in Encinitas at Yoga Swami. I would like to meet with you sometime...like old times and maybe take a walk on the beach. I also direct a Church of Western Mysticism of which I founded.
I miss the kids...those stinky ferrets. I know you can't tell but I am smiling now. We had some great moments with the Ferrets.
Thank you.
I would like to let the universe take this message and my intention out into the world with all the strength and energy of Love, and manifest a will and a way to let us be friends again.
For your attention and reading this far, I am Greatful.
Sincerely,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
AKA Trevar
PS: My family says "Hello."
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Some Form of Teleportation?
(Aside: this messaGE waS interceptED by WaKiNg WiTHiN on Wednesday @ 1259pm)
(Still Aside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation)
Dear Earthling that hasn't learned to read the Air,
I just picked up Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland and I am on my way to finding Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. My intention with these books is that somehow the symbols will clue me into myself (or simply "Self" as Carl Jung has described it). I was listening to the radio on my way to have a date with a woman I love, when I heard Black Balloon by the Goo Goo Dolls. This was the first time that I have heard this song this year. With new ears the symbols used in Black Balloon allowed me to "collide" (by Howie Day) with Secrets that the symbols of my Self revealed as I "grew up" with you and everyone in my life this year.
I noticed that I was able to read the AIR...what is reading the air? I was able to without Attempting...think things that would correspond with thoughts or information that was floating around in the space that was localized to me... my date was to comment on this... and she said, "you must be psychic."
Everyone must be psychic, this is not the point though. The point is that if one could learn how to localize their being to the entirety of the universe then no thing would be out of touch or unknown...thus is the method/path the ancient vedic sages/yogis used.
Love, my dear, love like you cannot love the same tomorrow because in essence you will change ceaselessly for the rest of our lives.
Love, Life, Presence, and Awareness or Consciousness (whatever it is that permeates all of beingness...whatever it is the Force).
And all of this makes sense to me and I start speaking and ranting and streaming my consciousness it usually sounds like I am a Southern California boy again and I am like Aladdin on an adventure.
I love you and I am experiencing compassion, it is weird and rose-n like goggles. Please meditate because no matter who or how you are being you truth is waiting for you just under the surface. Maybe all this Maya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) is because the truth is as fragile as the humans who behold it. And even if you weren't a human beholding the truth you would still be in the current of change..."like a leaf on the wind" (Serenity-- movie)
Just remember that sometimes (if not all the time) "you are the same as me, but on your knees..." (Black Balloon by the Goo Goo Dolls).
TRH+ "Kwisatz Haderach"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Atreides & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwisatz_Haderach & Learn More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_al-Ard & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefitzat_Haderech & Transcend Alchemy
(Aside: End traNSmiSSioN)
(Still Aside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation)
Dear Earthling that hasn't learned to read the Air,
I just picked up Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland and I am on my way to finding Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. My intention with these books is that somehow the symbols will clue me into myself (or simply "Self" as Carl Jung has described it). I was listening to the radio on my way to have a date with a woman I love, when I heard Black Balloon by the Goo Goo Dolls. This was the first time that I have heard this song this year. With new ears the symbols used in Black Balloon allowed me to "collide" (by Howie Day) with Secrets that the symbols of my Self revealed as I "grew up" with you and everyone in my life this year.
I noticed that I was able to read the AIR...what is reading the air? I was able to without Attempting...think things that would correspond with thoughts or information that was floating around in the space that was localized to me... my date was to comment on this... and she said, "you must be psychic."
Everyone must be psychic, this is not the point though. The point is that if one could learn how to localize their being to the entirety of the universe then no thing would be out of touch or unknown...thus is the method/path the ancient vedic sages/yogis used.
Love, my dear, love like you cannot love the same tomorrow because in essence you will change ceaselessly for the rest of our lives.
Love, Life, Presence, and Awareness or Consciousness (whatever it is that permeates all of beingness...whatever it is the Force).
And all of this makes sense to me and I start speaking and ranting and streaming my consciousness it usually sounds like I am a Southern California boy again and I am like Aladdin on an adventure.
I love you and I am experiencing compassion, it is weird and rose-n like goggles. Please meditate because no matter who or how you are being you truth is waiting for you just under the surface. Maybe all this Maya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) is because the truth is as fragile as the humans who behold it. And even if you weren't a human beholding the truth you would still be in the current of change..."like a leaf on the wind" (Serenity-- movie)
Just remember that sometimes (if not all the time) "you are the same as me, but on your knees..." (Black Balloon by the Goo Goo Dolls).
TRH+ "Kwisatz Haderach"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Atreides & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwisatz_Haderach & Learn More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_al-Ard & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefitzat_Haderech & Transcend Alchemy
(Aside: End traNSmiSSioN)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Newsletter 8/07/08
Dear Friends,
This week has been amazing. I have been surrendered from a very neutral place since my birthday and some awesome healings have come through. Even more awesome was that I realized many new potentials that I was allowing myself through Waking Within research projects. Yesterday I spend more than 5 hours with my face in books, perceiving and receiving some amazing inspirations regarding William Blake...poet and artist. Yoga and meditation are very important and I very available to teach as I have a passion for both, especially as we draw closer to the full MOON and the eclipse...please be present for as many events as possible and join us in generating community and abundance in this uncertain time of transformation.
"Remember that a caterpillar perceives not what she can do as butterfly but simply that she must transform. When emerged from a transformation only then does she know the truth of her being, a butterfly." -R. Acuna
Sincerely,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co
760-710-1713
___________________________
Services:
Yoga, Alchemy, Holistic Health, Marketing & Sales, and Events that Generate Human Community.
760-710-1713
________________________________________
August 16th Massage/Healing By Donation Two Yogi's, An Alchemist, and One Cert Massage Therapist. Begins at 10am (with Darshana and Andrew) but I will be there around 1pm.
The grassy area at Swami's Beach http://spirituality.meetup.com/425/calendar/8505661/
Look for the Massage Table and Listen for Singing Bowls
Full Moon/Eclipse Potluck/Birthday Party/Drum Circle 6pm: Join us on Saturday at South Ponto beach for fun, food, and fire as we celebrate the Moon, our second eclipse in the month of August, and our dear friend and Goddess Healer Rachael Johnson for a birthday. We will be set up with planetary gongs and a fire pit so look for us south of the jetty between 6pm-11pm. Bring an dish for the potluck at 6pm.Sept. 14th Posture Clinic with Pierre Couvillion: $30 pre-register with Trevor at Yoga Swami in Encinitas.See Link. http://www.pierrecouvillion.com/classes/sched.php?id=091408 _______________________________________________________
One of my students left an amazing review of my classes at the yurt in Encinitas. Check it out.http://www.yelp.com/biz/yoga-swami-encinitas#hrid:LK0cEMWV9R3wOatltn7Etg
Waking Within:
http://www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
http://wakingwithin.blogspot.com/
http://deathyoga.blogspot.com
If you want essential oils for meditation, check out my site! Let me know if you need anything: http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/yoga/
Fun Links:
http://blog.oilhealer.com/
www.myspace.com/gigglingchakras
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical+trevor/
http://www.yuvalla.com/meditationroom/
Research Clues for Alchemy Students:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adept
http://www.kunlunbliss.com/aboutus.html
This week has been amazing. I have been surrendered from a very neutral place since my birthday and some awesome healings have come through. Even more awesome was that I realized many new potentials that I was allowing myself through Waking Within research projects. Yesterday I spend more than 5 hours with my face in books, perceiving and receiving some amazing inspirations regarding William Blake...poet and artist. Yoga and meditation are very important and I very available to teach as I have a passion for both, especially as we draw closer to the full MOON and the eclipse...please be present for as many events as possible and join us in generating community and abundance in this uncertain time of transformation.
"Remember that a caterpillar perceives not what she can do as butterfly but simply that she must transform. When emerged from a transformation only then does she know the truth of her being, a butterfly." -R. Acuna
Sincerely,
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co
760-710-1713
___________________________
Services:
Yoga, Alchemy, Holistic Health, Marketing & Sales, and Events that Generate Human Community.
760-710-1713
________________________________________
August 16th Massage/Healing By Donation Two Yogi's, An Alchemist, and One Cert Massage Therapist. Begins at 10am (with Darshana and Andrew) but I will be there around 1pm.
The grassy area at Swami's Beach http://spirituality.meetup.com/425/calendar/8505661/
Look for the Massage Table and Listen for Singing Bowls
Full Moon/Eclipse Potluck/Birthday Party/Drum Circle 6pm: Join us on Saturday at South Ponto beach for fun, food, and fire as we celebrate the Moon, our second eclipse in the month of August, and our dear friend and Goddess Healer Rachael Johnson for a birthday. We will be set up with planetary gongs and a fire pit so look for us south of the jetty between 6pm-11pm. Bring an dish for the potluck at 6pm.Sept. 14th Posture Clinic with Pierre Couvillion: $30 pre-register with Trevor at Yoga Swami in Encinitas.See Link. http://www.pierrecouvillion.com/classes/sched.php?id=091408 _______________________________________________________
One of my students left an amazing review of my classes at the yurt in Encinitas. Check it out.http://www.yelp.com/biz/yoga-swami-encinitas#hrid:LK0cEMWV9R3wOatltn7Etg
Waking Within:
http://www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
http://wakingwithin.blogspot.com/
http://deathyoga.blogspot.com
If you want essential oils for meditation, check out my site! Let me know if you need anything: http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/yoga/
Fun Links:
http://blog.oilhealer.com/
www.myspace.com/gigglingchakras
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/magical+trevor/
http://www.yuvalla.com/meditationroom/
Research Clues for Alchemy Students:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adept
http://www.kunlunbliss.com/aboutus.html
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Birthday Healing 23
My Experience in Healing With Your Crystal Grid. On Wednesday July 30th during the afternoon hours, I experienced and was introduced to a new form of healing work that was facilitated by Healer, business partner, and dear friend Christiaan Sun.
I came to visit Christiaan at his home where the healing work took place during a sunny afternoon in Encinitas and was greeted by a most pleasant scene. Christiaan's home is a lower level apartment behind a house located in a lust ranch yard of fruit giving trees. His complex which I assume is shared with like minded individuals is encircled with trees that provide a barrier like energy for privacy and to enclose his salt water pool. I immediately felt the healing energy coming through the trees and plants and of course the location.
So we talked for a couple of minutes about his background and Christiaan explained to me about the time where he was learning from a therapist who developed a form of Yoga (partner yoga or Acrobatic yoga) that allowed practitioners to manipulate their bones, joints, and muscles into place through contact with their partner. Of course as I am a Yoga Instructor, I found this fascinating. We set up the spare room that he has for his healing work where Christiaan had me lie upon a massage table for a neck adjustment.
Wow/Wah! I never knew my neck could make that kind of noise as it replaced itself.
Then we took done the table and set up this interesting grid of copper wire. (When I say interesting I mean it had some provocative energy on it that was truly unique.) Christiaan told me to "carefully" climb onto the copper grid and lay on my back (Savasana). He surrounded me with quartz crystal points in a special configuration such that all the crystals touched the copper.
At this point we took to breathing exercises. Christiaan asked me to breathe deep and rapidly through my mouth (Breath of Fire/Kabalabati) full and fast. This proved to be a challenge because I was sensing some stagnant energy and the way my being works is that more often than not, my gut and solar plexus hold the blocks from relationships, regrets or emotions.
I felt like perhaps I would pass out or vomit but I was able to maintain the breath work. Christiaan asked how I was doing and what I was experiencing as we took a quick brake from the rapid breathing. I expressed that I was feeling hovering sensation of being just above my body.
Christiaan responded with the idea that it was better for me to be absolutely in my body and present to the experience I was having. At this he suggested that I breathe into my body full and slow. For about a minute, I slowly breathed into my body and the presence of "how I was being". Then we began breathing rapidly through the mouth again this time I definitely felt something shifting, such that my solar plexus was dislodging from the spiritual cesspool that it was stewing in as of the last month.
With the tenacious focus of rapid breathing, I was invited to roar and let out primal sounds or what ever came up for me. At first, simple roars and yells began to emerge and shortly thereafter I was receiving stomach pit dry-heaving or "yakking" noises. What happened next was miraculous. Amidst all the noise and movement, I saw myself in the form of an animal (always a Jaguar/Mountain Lion) trapped and attempting with every fiber to escape from a Tar Pit (like one that Mammoths and dinosaurs were subject to).
The amazing thing was, that I (being in this pit) actually surfaced and took a breathe. This breathe was my first breathe in a long time, it felt fresh and new. I immediately understood that all the "yakking" sounds where my way of removing the tar from my lungs and insides as it had seeped in over time and experience with the real world of illustion (maya).
I laid there in my experience upon the copper and crystal grid, tingling and glorious. For the next few minutes, I was left alone in the room where I experienced my beloved senses and an overwhelming sense of gratitude for my breathe above the tar. I experienced tears and freedom and a glimpse of a master teacher/friend whom I am attempting to meet in the month of August (this teacher's name is Max and he told me in my vision to "look and listen").
In my opinion, this type of work is amazing and would benefit all students and individuals who present themselves as Open, Honest, Loving, and Willing. I am still experiencing profound understanding from this experience and it has helped me to let go of addictions after a recent breakup with my partner/lover ( a few days before).
By Trevor Ryan Hughes
Yoga Therapist, Alchemist, Director For Waking Within Co.
Waking Within:
http://www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
http://wakingwithin.blogspot.com/
http://deathyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/yoga/
I came to visit Christiaan at his home where the healing work took place during a sunny afternoon in Encinitas and was greeted by a most pleasant scene. Christiaan's home is a lower level apartment behind a house located in a lust ranch yard of fruit giving trees. His complex which I assume is shared with like minded individuals is encircled with trees that provide a barrier like energy for privacy and to enclose his salt water pool. I immediately felt the healing energy coming through the trees and plants and of course the location.
So we talked for a couple of minutes about his background and Christiaan explained to me about the time where he was learning from a therapist who developed a form of Yoga (partner yoga or Acrobatic yoga) that allowed practitioners to manipulate their bones, joints, and muscles into place through contact with their partner. Of course as I am a Yoga Instructor, I found this fascinating. We set up the spare room that he has for his healing work where Christiaan had me lie upon a massage table for a neck adjustment.
Wow/Wah! I never knew my neck could make that kind of noise as it replaced itself.
Then we took done the table and set up this interesting grid of copper wire. (When I say interesting I mean it had some provocative energy on it that was truly unique.) Christiaan told me to "carefully" climb onto the copper grid and lay on my back (Savasana). He surrounded me with quartz crystal points in a special configuration such that all the crystals touched the copper.
At this point we took to breathing exercises. Christiaan asked me to breathe deep and rapidly through my mouth (Breath of Fire/Kabalabati) full and fast. This proved to be a challenge because I was sensing some stagnant energy and the way my being works is that more often than not, my gut and solar plexus hold the blocks from relationships, regrets or emotions.
I felt like perhaps I would pass out or vomit but I was able to maintain the breath work. Christiaan asked how I was doing and what I was experiencing as we took a quick brake from the rapid breathing. I expressed that I was feeling hovering sensation of being just above my body.
Christiaan responded with the idea that it was better for me to be absolutely in my body and present to the experience I was having. At this he suggested that I breathe into my body full and slow. For about a minute, I slowly breathed into my body and the presence of "how I was being". Then we began breathing rapidly through the mouth again this time I definitely felt something shifting, such that my solar plexus was dislodging from the spiritual cesspool that it was stewing in as of the last month.
With the tenacious focus of rapid breathing, I was invited to roar and let out primal sounds or what ever came up for me. At first, simple roars and yells began to emerge and shortly thereafter I was receiving stomach pit dry-heaving or "yakking" noises. What happened next was miraculous. Amidst all the noise and movement, I saw myself in the form of an animal (always a Jaguar/Mountain Lion) trapped and attempting with every fiber to escape from a Tar Pit (like one that Mammoths and dinosaurs were subject to).
The amazing thing was, that I (being in this pit) actually surfaced and took a breathe. This breathe was my first breathe in a long time, it felt fresh and new. I immediately understood that all the "yakking" sounds where my way of removing the tar from my lungs and insides as it had seeped in over time and experience with the real world of illustion (maya).
I laid there in my experience upon the copper and crystal grid, tingling and glorious. For the next few minutes, I was left alone in the room where I experienced my beloved senses and an overwhelming sense of gratitude for my breathe above the tar. I experienced tears and freedom and a glimpse of a master teacher/friend whom I am attempting to meet in the month of August (this teacher's name is Max and he told me in my vision to "look and listen").
In my opinion, this type of work is amazing and would benefit all students and individuals who present themselves as Open, Honest, Loving, and Willing. I am still experiencing profound understanding from this experience and it has helped me to let go of addictions after a recent breakup with my partner/lover ( a few days before).
By Trevor Ryan Hughes
Yoga Therapist, Alchemist, Director For Waking Within Co.
Waking Within:
http://www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
http://wakingwithin.blogspot.com/
http://deathyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/yoga/
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Karma Police Myself
Dear Friends and Lovers,
I found it necessary to invoke the great god of abundance and tonight after an unruley week of energy and physical breakups, three of us friends are meeting on the beach in Encinitas for a Fire Ceremony representing the letting go and moving forward into the future.
I hope that all who read this are blessed with the love that I have experienced in the lifetime. I have had a level head and a neutrality about me for most of my trials this year and I am so thankful. As a part of letting go of relationships and habits that no longer serve my highest purpose, I am gathering to me new energies of thankfulness and grace and doing so more powerfully than ever.
I love you. I am free and I intend that you and all beings will know freedom and peace.
(Currently listening to : "Forever Young," "Flake," and "Karma Police")
I am so happy to move closer to my highest go and to do it forever...
Tonight and as long as it continues to be my truth I invoke and evoke:
Love
Freedom
Friendship
Truth
Peace
Honesty
Laughter
Wellbeing
Passion
Success
Community
A Happy and Healthy Planet
YOGA
ALCHEMY
A new order/guild of Alchemists
Yoga Tai Chi Community
Open Heart
My 23rd Year in Trevor Ryan Hughes' body.
Family
Travel
Roots
Oils (Alchemy of the Earth)
Knowledge
Unconditional Universial LOVE
Set your intentions to follow ours if you are interested in any of these things. This is Fire and Water ritual of Transmutation from old habits to new freestyling flows.
Peace, Giving, Love
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co.
760*710*1713
Find Me: Google ---Waking Within
I found it necessary to invoke the great god of abundance and tonight after an unruley week of energy and physical breakups, three of us friends are meeting on the beach in Encinitas for a Fire Ceremony representing the letting go and moving forward into the future.
I hope that all who read this are blessed with the love that I have experienced in the lifetime. I have had a level head and a neutrality about me for most of my trials this year and I am so thankful. As a part of letting go of relationships and habits that no longer serve my highest purpose, I am gathering to me new energies of thankfulness and grace and doing so more powerfully than ever.
I love you. I am free and I intend that you and all beings will know freedom and peace.
(Currently listening to : "Forever Young," "Flake," and "Karma Police")
I am so happy to move closer to my highest go and to do it forever...
Tonight and as long as it continues to be my truth I invoke and evoke:
Love
Freedom
Friendship
Truth
Peace
Honesty
Laughter
Wellbeing
Passion
Success
Community
A Happy and Healthy Planet
YOGA
ALCHEMY
A new order/guild of Alchemists
Yoga Tai Chi Community
Open Heart
My 23rd Year in Trevor Ryan Hughes' body.
Family
Travel
Roots
Oils (Alchemy of the Earth)
Knowledge
Unconditional Universial LOVE
Set your intentions to follow ours if you are interested in any of these things. This is Fire and Water ritual of Transmutation from old habits to new freestyling flows.
Peace, Giving, Love
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co.
760*710*1713
Find Me: Google ---Waking Within
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Warrior Gatherings 1
Friends,
We are beginning Warrior Gatherings where we practice martial arts with trust and boundaries. Most of these groups are for Warriors with background and experience and a good nature. Let me know if want to attend or show up. Our first gathering was at 7pm on July the 8th at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad CA. At this event we learned and practiced mostly Japanese Sword fighting.
Tuesday Nights 7pm Rotational Locations Call for Info 760-710-1713Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co
www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
We are beginning Warrior Gatherings where we practice martial arts with trust and boundaries. Most of these groups are for Warriors with background and experience and a good nature. Let me know if want to attend or show up. Our first gathering was at 7pm on July the 8th at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad CA. At this event we learned and practiced mostly Japanese Sword fighting.
Tuesday Nights 7pm Rotational Locations Call for Info 760-710-1713Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co
www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
Warrior Gathering 1
Friends,
We are beginning Warrior Gatherings where we practice martial arts with trust and boundaries. Most of these groups are for Warriors with background and experience and a good nature. Let me know if want to attend or show up. Our first gathering was at 7pm on July the 8th at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad CA. At this event we learned and practiced mostly Japanese Sword fighting.
Tuesday Nights 7pm Rotational Locations Call for Info 760-710-1713
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co
www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
We are beginning Warrior Gatherings where we practice martial arts with trust and boundaries. Most of these groups are for Warriors with background and experience and a good nature. Let me know if want to attend or show up. Our first gathering was at 7pm on July the 8th at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad CA. At this event we learned and practiced mostly Japanese Sword fighting.
Tuesday Nights 7pm Rotational Locations Call for Info 760-710-1713
Trevor Ryan Hughes
Waking Within Co
www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
Friday, May 16, 2008
Yoga As Preparation For Death and Dying Chapter 1
Readers,
Yoga can also be a controversial subject and practice. With a larger rate of yogic mutations in style and beliefs, my field is one littered with landmines of the taboo. I have been practicing and studying with in the field intensely for four years now and I am happy to report that the times for narrow minded nonpracticitioners are changing. Yoga practitioners are coming in many more varieties these days:
Psychonauts,
Christians,
Hindu,
Buddhists,
Tattoo Sporting Practitioners,
Professionals in the working and athletic fields,
Tantra (John Friend),
Native American belief systems (Ana Forrest),
Smokers,
and just about every other kind of person or ideal you can think of.
One thing that I came across in my readings and research is a something called Shadow Yoga. Oh, doesn't that sound mysterious. As far as my research tells me, Shadow Yoga is simply a practice of obscure yoga teachings (breathing, aka pranayama, body positions aka asana, and philosophy). This leads me to believe that what I am currently practicing, while derived from Hatha yoga practice, is gradually passing into the realm of Shadow Yoga. I am inviting people from all walks of life to start Waking Within as they do intense personal-questing and inner journey work.
I am blessed to know that the more that I prepare my humanity with light meditations (light in the sense of love or coherent frequencies), the more I am given the opportunity to visit and embrace my shadow side (incoherent tendencies or chaos). Readers can take comfort in knowing that the light/dark side qualities are equal and balanced; so naturally the more that you work on one, the more you shall be working on the other.
I guess what I am trying to say in this entry is that yoga is based on union or the principle of ONENESS. Therefore light and dark (shadow or unpopular/obscure) are simply masks of true life or wisdom that exists in balance.
This aside, let's learn something:
"Yoga as Preparation for Death"By Trevor Ryan Hughes
Since the begining of time yoga has been know as a system of Liberation or freedom. With this I was led to contemplate on the question of "freedom from what?" Modern times seem to be influcening my decision regarding "freedom from what". There is quite a bit out there with regard to humanity and its search for freedom. As a young man in California I was influenced by "the Matrix", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Dark Crystal", "Jet Li's Fearless", "Kung Fu The Series", "Catcher In The Rye", author Joyce Carol Oats, "The Alchemist", and large amount of science fiction stories that really convey the message "that a human is more than meets the eye".
In the words of Yoda (Star Wars): "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes."
In fact to quote Swami Sivananda in the glorious DVD movie Yoga Unveiled:
"Do you want to be master of your destiny? Do not be discouraged in sorrows, difficulties, and tribulations that manifest in the daily battle of life. Draw courage and spiritual strength from within. There is a vast inexhaustable magazine of knowledge and power within. Learn the ways to tap the source, dive deep within!"
Yoga as death prep is a process that combines all the flowery stuff that we in the west practice such as postures, meditation and breathing, and healthy lifestyle; with all the scarrey stuff from the east such as breath locking, diet, abstaining from toxic things, states of no-breath/near-death/never starvation. These things when combined bring in what I have begun to personally experience as "fearlessness" (a godlike quality discussed in the Bhagavad Gita).
Yoga when practiced with these processed from the East and West, is designed to destroy and recreate or transfigure self, time, and space through the mystical experience. Many individuals undergo a psychological shift or a psychedelic flash when faced with the mystical experience. Research points to these "shifted" individuals as having a larger interest in communal, meditation based ascetic life. Yoga looks to destroy the separation between what is self and what is not self...
Death and Yoga are both processed that help a human to understand the most basic level of underlying unity and interdependence of all existence. The unity experience contains past, present, and future in the Now of Eternity. From these spaces of "here and only here" an individual can determine paradox without conflict.
This conversation continues in future blogs entitled "Yoga as Preparation for Death". Inspired by the research of Dr. Rick Strassman.
Please let us know what you think and visit our myspace or send us a direct message via WakingWithin@gmail.com or Omtrevor@gmail.com
Namaste,
Trevor Ryan Hughes CYT
Waking Within Co.
www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
Carlsbad CA
760-710-1713
Yoga can also be a controversial subject and practice. With a larger rate of yogic mutations in style and beliefs, my field is one littered with landmines of the taboo. I have been practicing and studying with in the field intensely for four years now and I am happy to report that the times for narrow minded nonpracticitioners are changing. Yoga practitioners are coming in many more varieties these days:
Psychonauts,
Christians,
Hindu,
Buddhists,
Tattoo Sporting Practitioners,
Professionals in the working and athletic fields,
Tantra (John Friend),
Native American belief systems (Ana Forrest),
Smokers,
and just about every other kind of person or ideal you can think of.
One thing that I came across in my readings and research is a something called Shadow Yoga. Oh, doesn't that sound mysterious. As far as my research tells me, Shadow Yoga is simply a practice of obscure yoga teachings (breathing, aka pranayama, body positions aka asana, and philosophy). This leads me to believe that what I am currently practicing, while derived from Hatha yoga practice, is gradually passing into the realm of Shadow Yoga. I am inviting people from all walks of life to start Waking Within as they do intense personal-questing and inner journey work.
I am blessed to know that the more that I prepare my humanity with light meditations (light in the sense of love or coherent frequencies), the more I am given the opportunity to visit and embrace my shadow side (incoherent tendencies or chaos). Readers can take comfort in knowing that the light/dark side qualities are equal and balanced; so naturally the more that you work on one, the more you shall be working on the other.
I guess what I am trying to say in this entry is that yoga is based on union or the principle of ONENESS. Therefore light and dark (shadow or unpopular/obscure) are simply masks of true life or wisdom that exists in balance.
This aside, let's learn something:
"Yoga as Preparation for Death"By Trevor Ryan Hughes
Since the begining of time yoga has been know as a system of Liberation or freedom. With this I was led to contemplate on the question of "freedom from what?" Modern times seem to be influcening my decision regarding "freedom from what". There is quite a bit out there with regard to humanity and its search for freedom. As a young man in California I was influenced by "the Matrix", "A Clockwork Orange", "The Dark Crystal", "Jet Li's Fearless", "Kung Fu The Series", "Catcher In The Rye", author Joyce Carol Oats, "The Alchemist", and large amount of science fiction stories that really convey the message "that a human is more than meets the eye".
In the words of Yoda (Star Wars): "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes."
In fact to quote Swami Sivananda in the glorious DVD movie Yoga Unveiled:
"Do you want to be master of your destiny? Do not be discouraged in sorrows, difficulties, and tribulations that manifest in the daily battle of life. Draw courage and spiritual strength from within. There is a vast inexhaustable magazine of knowledge and power within. Learn the ways to tap the source, dive deep within!"
Yoga as death prep is a process that combines all the flowery stuff that we in the west practice such as postures, meditation and breathing, and healthy lifestyle; with all the scarrey stuff from the east such as breath locking, diet, abstaining from toxic things, states of no-breath/near-death/never starvation. These things when combined bring in what I have begun to personally experience as "fearlessness" (a godlike quality discussed in the Bhagavad Gita).
Yoga when practiced with these processed from the East and West, is designed to destroy and recreate or transfigure self, time, and space through the mystical experience. Many individuals undergo a psychological shift or a psychedelic flash when faced with the mystical experience. Research points to these "shifted" individuals as having a larger interest in communal, meditation based ascetic life. Yoga looks to destroy the separation between what is self and what is not self...
Death and Yoga are both processed that help a human to understand the most basic level of underlying unity and interdependence of all existence. The unity experience contains past, present, and future in the Now of Eternity. From these spaces of "here and only here" an individual can determine paradox without conflict.
This conversation continues in future blogs entitled "Yoga as Preparation for Death". Inspired by the research of Dr. Rick Strassman.
Please let us know what you think and visit our myspace or send us a direct message via WakingWithin@gmail.com or Omtrevor@gmail.com
Namaste,
Trevor Ryan Hughes CYT
Waking Within Co.
www.myspace.com/wakingwithin
Carlsbad CA
760-710-1713
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