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February 5th, 2010

Boycott the Super Bowl!

CBS is airing the bigot Focus on Family advertisement. Why can’t Focus on Family leave women’s vaginas alone and mind their business about who wants to get married? CBS and NFL wants the middle class sit on a couch for three hours, drink and eat more sugar that causes us more health problems, be brained washed by a bigot fundalmentalist group that hates the America and the Constitution, WATCH MILLIONAIRE PLAYERS AND BILLIONAIRE TEAM OWNERS AND NETWORK EXECUTIVES PLAY A GAME, and give them more money! Ha ha ha! Pure comedy! All the while we are losing jobs, our businesses, and our healthcare reform! This is pure insanity! Go for a walk! Volunteer! Come to yoga! Read a book! Say no to this new sign of the fall of America! Remember there always signs. First comes a pebble, then a stone. Then a brick. Then a rock. Then a boulder. Being alarmed means you are awake. It doesn’t mean you have an anger problem. It doesn’t mean if you are a women that you are premenstrual! It means you are awake! It means we are awake and it means the yoga is working!!!!!!!

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Words Fly

January 23rd, 2010

People’s action are the truth of what they believe. Don’t be fooled by their words. Cover your ears to what they say and hear with your eyes at what they DO.

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“Tell The Bed Not Lay Like The Open Mouth Of A Grave”

January 3rd, 2010

“Students in Adho Mukha Vrksasana (Downward Facing Tree)”
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The following passage from “The Kabbalistic Bible” edited by Yehuda Berg inspired this post:

—”But what is real peace? It is something much more than physical rest and comfort. A person who desires to rest only in the physical sense is like a man who wants to put out a fire by pouring gas onto it. For an instant, it appears he has put out the fire, but then we see that he has only made it bigger.”

I truly beleive this above quote is the secret to all the mysteries of life. It explains the deep paradox that runs through the veins of life. I recommend you read the above passage over and over until you fully understand what it is saying. Here are some questions to help us “stand under” this wisdom and grasp it fully:

*What would happen if we stayed in bed all day and never move and allow the body be comfortable?

*What are the major differences between a parent and a child?

*Why is it we can’t remedy an absense with another absense? Why is darkness not remedied with more darkness?

These questions are hinting to us what the heart of the above quote is. Life is a paradox. We must remember this. Many people resist yoga because of it’s difficulty, but this is precisely why it saves our lives! We are at war with the body. Don’t for one second think we aren’t. The body wants to go into the ground. If it weren’t for the lightness of the soul the body would go into the ground and we know this because of our knowledge of the dying process. The only way to stay alive is to seek discomfort! As soon as we seek comfort we head toward the path of death. Yoga postures keep our bodies from comfort and that is how it paradoxically helps us. Uncomfortable sharing with other people has the power to empower our soul and save the body from heaviness as well. We must practice this paradox if we want to live life to the fullest. How can you be more uncomfortable today?

*The title of this post are lyrics from a song called “Tell Me” by Madonna. The word “bed” in hebrew has the same numerical value as sick.

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The Skinny Cow No More For 2010

January 1st, 2010

In life I know for sure that one of the secrets is about “desire”. I know that the more you desire the more you can bring into your life. We have to think big — personally and globally! We cannot settle for less. If we think big we will be given big blessings. After all don’t we believe that repeated practiced thought creates reality??? A Kabbalah teacher once told me the story of the Skinny Cow and I thought it was a perfect way to begin 2010:

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Long ago there was poor farmer who lived in a small town on a small farm. He had a humble family and very little money. The farmer also had an old skinny cow in the back yard that they used for milk. During the winter this cow’s milk was all they had to eat. The family lived poor and suffered for years and years with their small bit of milk from their skinny cow. One day a very important town leader came to the farmer’s home and out of respect they fed him dinner. Their guest ate the few crops they had and kept asking for more until he had finally eaten everything the farmer had. After he had eaten all of the farmer’s food, the man asked for even more food. The farmer told the man he had nothing left. But the man didn’t seem to believe the farmer. He stood up and saw the skinny cow in the back yard and told the farmer to slaughter it because he wanted to eat that too! The farmer, knowing that the cow was their only food source for winter, slaughtered the cow with great sadness and dispair. The man ate the cow and left. There sat the family devastated. All the fears came pouring in. What will they eat? What will they do? How can they survive winter? The farmer left the house to take a walk and to think about a solution. He walked deep in the woods and sat down and prayed and cried. Just then a voice came from the sky and told him that he had finally after all these years let go of that skinny cow and now he can have real major blessings in his life! He looked down and saw a box burried in the ground. He dug it up and it was filled with rare diamonds! He and his family were never poor again and lived happily ever after!

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What is your skinny cow? What small desire is keeping your from a bigger ones? What small ego attachment are keeping you from major soul longings?

In 2010 let’s go for it! Let’s let go of small comforts! Small inflexibilities! Small control issues! Small places, people, attitudes and dreams! The Creator is ready to send you diamonds if only you stop clutching stones!

Call 1800 Kabbalah to get in touch with a kabbalah teacher or in the LA area visit 1062 S Robertson on Tuesday or Thursday nights at 7pm for a free introductory class!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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New Years Message From Dolly Parton

December 31st, 2009

Happy New Year! May we all have a year of joy and breakthroughs and growth! Here is some wisdom from Dolly Parton’s latest album “Backwoods Barbie” available on iTunes! It’s a song that I think sums life all up! Let’s get to living in 2010!

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“Better Get To Livin’” by Dolly Parton

People always comin’ up to me and askin’
“Dolly, what’s your secret?
With all you do, your attitude
Just seems to be so good
How do you keep it?”
Well, I’m not the Dalai Lama, but I’ll try
To offer up a few words of advice.

You better get to livin’, givin’
Don’t forget to throw in a little forgivin’
And lovin’ on the way
You better get to knowin’, showin’
A little bit more concerned about where you’re goin’
Just a word unto the wise
You better get to livin’.

A girlfriend came to my house
Started cryin’ on my shoulder Sunday evening
She was spinnin’ such a sad tale
I could not believe the yarn that she was weavin’
So negative the words she had to say
I said if I had a violin I’d play.

I said you’d better get to livin’, givin’
Be willing and forgivin’
Cause all healing has to start with you
You better stop whining, pining
Get your dreams in line
And then just shine, design, refine
Until they come true
And you better get to livin’.

Your life’s a wreck, your house is mess
And your wardrobe way outdated
All your plans just keep on falling through
Overweight and under paid, under appreciated
I’m no guru, but I’ll tell you
This I know is true.

You better get to livin’, givin’
A little more thought about bein’
A little more willin’ to make a better way
Don’t sweat the small stuff
Keep your chin up
Just hang tough
And if it gets too rough
Fall on your knees and pray
And do that everyday
Then you’ll get to livin’.

The day we’re born we start to die
Don’t waste one minute of this life
Get to livin’
Share your dreams and share your laughter
Make some points for the great hereafter.

Better start carin’
Better start sharin’
Better start tryin’
Better start smiling
And you better get to livin’…

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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND NEW YOU!

VISIT JOSEPHYOGA.COM AND LEARN HOW YOGA CAN GET YOU TO LIVING!

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Quote

December 26th, 2009

Moses, Jesus and Mohammed would all be friends if they went to high school together — Yehuda Berg

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Top 25 News Events They Don’t Want You To Know

December 26th, 2009

This webpage and information blew my mind open! Thank God for writers and people behind this! Read about what really happened in 2009 other than who won Dancing with the Stars or who Tiger Wood is sleeping with. I LOVE THIS!

Top 25 stories they don’t want you to see!

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Waking up like Ebenezer Scrooge: MERRY CHRISTMAS!

December 25th, 2009

Do you remember the movie Christmas Carol? Ebenezer Scrooge is an old lonely miser and after a night with some angels he realizes that focusing on money and the material world doesn’t bring him happiness. He realizes that he only receives a small amount of light from taking and hoarding and that real joy comes from giving. This story is as applicable and accurate today as it ever was. I always remember the story Oprah Winfrey told about her Christmas Day project in Africa where she gave the poor children gifts on Christmas Day. She said it was the greatest joy she had ever known. We are all after joy but we are tricked. We think to get joy we must receive it and receive things. Makes sense but the laws of this world dictate that joy can only come by moving closer to the light which happens only when we become like the light through sharing. It’s counter intuitive! RECEIVING WILL NEVER GIVE US THE JOY THAT SHARING CAN ULTIMATELY GIVE US.

Today, may we all wake up on Christmas Day with joy and appreciation and ready to love and share like Ebenezer Scrooge! We have a second chance! We have another chance! Merry Christmas to the whole wide world! No matter what has happened we can fix it. No matter what went wrong we can go in the other direction! We can have peace on earth and find true peace in our lives…..

Merry Christmas!

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The Five Basic Postures for Holiday Practice

December 24th, 2009

During the holiday vacation, many of us may find ourselves eating more, moving less and not attending our regular yoga classes. To combat this, here are the five basic holiday posture sequence designed to clear out the digestive track from fake foods, bring blood and health to our hamstrings and lower backs and calm our frazzled nerves. Practice once a week to daily. I did headstand this morning over looking snowy hills! Happy Holidays!

1)Adho mukha svanasana
(downward facing dog)

2)sirsasana
(headstand)

3) trikonasana
(triangle pose)

4) parsvakonasana
(stretch of the flank)

5) salamba sarvangasana
(shoulder stand)

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Happy Holidays!

December 24th, 2009

Dear Yogis
I wanted to tell you all Happy Holidays and how grateful I am to know you. No matter what our differences are lets try extra hard to be kind and gentle and practice human dignity in the next year. I love you all and please look at our retreat photos from our summer retreat in Santa Barbara! It was incredible! The pictures are finally here! Next retreat coming in the summer 2010! Stay tuned! Happy Holidays!

NEW RETREAT PHOTOS!
Namaste,
Joseph
JosephYoga.com