One Love
October 22, 2009
This week in our Powerful Woman Yoga Boot Camp classes we have been exploring the Yogic principle of Unity. The definition of Yoga can be descriped as ’yoke’ or ‘union’ -of mind and body and spirit and the Remembering that we are all united with the Divine and in fact each one of is is Divine – ahh so the big idea of Yoga - we are all ONE. Very deep and extremely simple!
Keeping it simple – how in our daily life do we take our Yoga off the mat, reminding ourselves of this unity, this oneness amoung us all? The first step, Yoga teaches us is Ahimsa – Loving Kindess. Through daily small and perhaps unsolicited acts of kindness we slowly come to relize that there is no seperation between living creature – humans, animals, birds, fish etc – We are One.
One thing I know I can do each day to practice Ahimsa is to eat a Vegan diet (see this blog post), I vote for the humane and loving treatment of animals with each bite I take. Ok for me that’s easy – wow what else. Ok I smiled at a grumpy customer in the store today, (yes grumpyness aimed at me) and aha, I did get a smile in the end! Hmm what else? We move through our days at such a rapid pace perhaps it’s beneficial to take the time each day to set an intention to practice, let’s say 4 acts of kindness, and at the end of the day record them, personally I think think this is the only way I will Remember. How about it, shall we start today, tomorrow? You record yours and I’ll record mine, we’ll check back later 
Check out this inspirational video http://www.playingforchange.com/episodes/3/One_Love. From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This is the third video from the documentary and a follow up to the classic “Stand By Me” and the incredible “Don’t Worry.” Released in celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday on February 6th, this tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
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