Full Moon Fruition
The light we see is a reflection of our own beauty.
The full moon is a time when all our introspections come to light. The moon reflects the light of the sun and is a reminder that there is always a way to see the light, even in the darkness! For each Full Moon Fruition Blog I choose a sutra that helps us tap into our best or bring brightness to our worst. In the end, we are all light.
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Smiles and metta,
Leigh
Sutra 1.1
Atha Yoganusasanam - Now Begins the Practice of Yoga
I love this sutra for many reasons, but primarily, it’s because now happens again and again. Now begins the practice of yoga. Now begins the practice of yoga. Now begins the practice of yoga!
Sutra 1.15
Vairagya
If you could choose to be anybody in the world, choose to be yourself. This thought bubbled up into my mind this month and I even said it out loud. "If I could choose to be anybody, I'd choose to be myself." It surprised me!
Sutras 2.40 and 2.41
Saucha - Allow yourself to shine!
The purpose of saucha is to allow the immaculate beauty within each of us to bubble to the surface so we can see it, feel it, and then act from a place of beauty and clarity. I like to think of it as washing a window.
Sutra 1.20
Shraddha - That which you hold in your heart.
Five ways to cultivate faith based on experience. Sutra 1.20 speaks of how to nurture your spirit and your natural sense of oneness. This sutra begins with sradda (shraddha), faith.
Sutra 3.40
Udana Vayu - Three ways to tap into your light and become your own superhero!
Udana vayu is the expression of our total life force and is responsible for holding us upright. It's as if our own being can rescue us when we get into trouble.
Sutra 2.33
Bhavana - How to embody the qualities you value and be the best expression of yourself!
This sutra is all about letting the good eclipse the challenging. Creating a bhavana is more than a simple positive affirmation.
Sutra 2.21
Soak up life to lift yourself up. Explore each experience as an asana. The purpose of the world around us is to give us the opportunity to react. What we do is our ‘pose’. The practice we individually experience is designed specifically for each of us.
Sutra 4.3
Remembering Ourselves. Our practice is receiving what is already there. This spring full moon is all about being in the flow. Allow, remember, and make space. We are already everything we want to be.
Sutra 1.24
Sprout your divine and cultivate your thriving ecosystem. Each of us has an ideal environment that germinates our own divine seed to begin the growth of knowledge, wisdom, and love from inside. The practice becomes learning what environment is right for us at what time, noticing noxious environments, and adjusting our gardening skills accordingly.
Sutra 2.16
Save yourself from suffering. Baby steps towards personal peace.
Future suffering can and should be avoided. I’m all for it, but how? This is all about how to consciously rewire ourselves by exploring, envisioning, and enlivening ourselves towards our Self and integrity. It is a simple process that is quite effective and accessible.
Sutra 2.47
Let go of struggle. Soar effortlessly into your potential.
This sutra is all about relaxing into where you are and keeping your attention on where you want to go. Our new mantram becomes, “Try, relax, succeed.”
Sutra 4.17
Three ways to expand and move past our limits.
This month's blog corresponds with a total lunar eclipse and is a reminder to release what is in the way of seeing our heart’s purpose and the beauty and unity of all.
Sutra 1.13
Signposts on the path to peace.
Five ways to know that you are becoming more aligned with yourself. These signposts reassure us that we are moving in the right direction in our physical and mental yoga practices. When in doubt, look for these signs.
Sutra 2.46
The balanced path. Sthira and Sukham.
At the meeting point that unites apparent opposites, we find a third plane of existence. Balance is not a place, it is a whimsical experience between effort and ease. Notice the moment of balance in your breath for a visceral experience of this fleeting state.
Sutra 1.39
This sutra is all about choosing what works for us and starting where we are. Letting go of obstacles is a funny thing. "We often start an intention to improve ourselves (as we would say), let go of obstacles (as yoga philosophy would say), with an idealistic view about what we will do and how we will be and then we are quickly thrown into reality of who we currently are." Pema Chondron
Sutra 3.41
Stoke your inner power to thrive through the holiday season. 10 ways to rest, digest, participate, be present and enjoy this holiday season. Samana vayu is all about digestion and assimilation. On a physical level this is actually eating and digesting food. On an energetic and emotional level, samana vayu is how we make life experience fruitful. This sutra reminds us to tap into our innate ability to glean the nutrients out of life and sift out the toxins.
Sutra 2.11
When we are malfunctioning, we can create a do over. 8 ways to calm the mind, reboot, and cultivate meditation skills. Just like electronics, when our minds and bodies are messed up, they can often be fixed by updating and resetting them. Inward practices are our updating system and meditation is our hard reboot.
Sutra 1.20
Virya is the root of the warrior poses…virhabdrasana I, II, and III. We are our own heroes and our own warriors. We our own strength and determination. We all want to be our best selves because we all want to be happy and peaceful, but we are all human and often fail over and over again. This month is all about the four corners of success.
Sutra 2.50
Use your breath to find your sweet spot. A breath test to reinvent yourself.
The breath gives us an opportunity to tap into and frolic in our own life force, or prana, and to cultivate different aspects of ourselves. One of the beauties of being human is that we can consciously control our breath and therefore, we can consciously regulate our vitality and perspective.
Sutra 4.5
Embodiment for Enlightenment. Embodiment Practices to Soothe Your Soul.
The more we view our bodies as separate parts with specific and finite form and function, the more often we suffer physical pain and limited motion. We can use our bodies to experience connectedness. As we experience oneness, gradually we can accept its existence.
Sutra 1.17
The Core of Being. How we Journey Inward.
Whether we are exploring our physical body, our spirits, or something as simple as a new hobby, we follow the same path from the physical and mental, through the subtleties of senses and energy, to ease and proficiency, and finally to a sense of being.
Sutra 2.44
Yogic Psychotherapy
Self-analyzation alone doesn’t help us move towards peace, it helps us move into insecurities, fear, limits, and challenge. What helps us move towards peace is our ability to understand ourselves with a perspective of the whole, both as an individual complete being and as part of the world around us.
Sutra 2.36
Satya -Truth Seeking
There are the simple parts of truthfulness...but then there is the question of what truth actually is. The funny thing is that the truth keeps changing and evolving as our awareness and perspective broadens and deepens. When what we know as true changes, it doesn't obliterate old truths, it clarifies them.
Sutra 2.55
Inviting ourselves in. A simple guided practice to hone your inner gaze.
Pratyahara is often translated as sensory withdrawal, but pratyahara isn’t about turning the senses off; it’s about turning the senses inward. It’s entry into a wondrous and infinite world.