The Unity of Yoga is the Unity of Life

Type:       ● [A] "On the Mat"/Asana ●

INSTRUCTOR:   Godfrey Devereux

Class Description:  When life is lived from a sense of separation, yoga practice can only be undertaken as a process of accomplishment based on knowledge, skill and effort. Yet when life flows freely within it yoga becomes an effortless celebration of a unity intrinsic to the methodology of yoga, as much as it is to life itself. When action is invited and allowed to emerge from and express the inherent integrity of the body, it simultaneously expresses and reveals the deeper unities of being human. This class will clarify the unity of posture (asana), breathing (pranayama) and awareness (meditation). It will do so without reference to any speculative ideology, esoteric mythology, or romantic metaphysics. Instead it will invite you to experience the intrinsic unity of spirit, energy, mind, breath and body on the basis of integrity of action. The class will proceed slowly from action in the body (asana), via intimacy with the breath (pranayama) to the silent luminosity of unmediated awareness (meditation). It will end with a Radical Enquiry into the nature of being human, and the possibility of genuine freedom.