We need to take the energy of yoga – of unification – and bring it to culture.
This is a huge aspect of the yoga we all need to practice to create a beautiful, abundant, peaceful and Spirit-filled world. Call it a tribe or community or clan or kin or whatever.
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Our full human expression is still to live as a unified multi-generational people. Humans are no different than dolphins, or wolves, or bees, or ants, or giraffes, or apes, or even bananas or bamboo: we are naturally “designed” to live in-and-as a bonded social organism. What does it take for us have the kind of world we want, and be the kind of people we want to be? How can we grow through the huge pile of compost left by previous generations and find our way to the sunlight? How can we create a full, healthy expression of our individuality and a “container” – a culture, a community – for us to live in?įor this we need a holistic cultural template. It’s a “take the best and leave the rest” approach.
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GaiaYoga provides a way to emerge out of the world that we see now and to create something that has the beautiful elements of indigenous cultures and knows how to wield the new power derived from technological and social evolution, without losing touch with our true humanity. To change direction and make life work naturally and be sustainable, we require a new vision, teaching and daily practice that can heal and transform our lives and our cultures. Most of us were raised by this beast and intentionally or not, we continue the pattern. Sadly, these indigenous cultures have mostly “lost their battles” (literally) with the current “beast” that is running the world. GaiaYoga as a holistic practice is inspired by the cultural and spiritual wisdom of many indigenous cultures in which people lived sustainably for untold generations. GaiaYoga is a dynamic and holistic “yoga” that addresses Spirit (realizing, integrating, and enjoying the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine), the Self (including the physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental bodies), Community (including the intimate, personal, local, collective, and universal spheres of community), and Earth (developing strategies to sustainably live as an integrated “cell” of The Earth, individually and culturally). GaiaYoga goes much broader and deeper than most “yogas,” which primarily address an individuals’ body-mind - supporting inner peace and connection to Spirit.
GaiaYoga is a tool for looking at the structure of our lives, accounting for all of our needs, and starting to make different choices by re-designing our lives for wholeness, sustainability, and total integration. We believe the reason that most of us are stuck in various ways in our lives is due to poor design, not an inherent problem in us as humans. We think the same is true of lifestyles and cultures. In other words, if you start out with a bad design, no matter how much energy you put into tweaking it, you’re still going to end up with problems. One of the things we’ve learned from Permaculture is that most problems, especially recurring ones, can be traced to design errors. GaiaYoga is in many ways the antidote to the predominant culture designed around unchecked capitalism, fantasy, car-and machine-based human settlements, dysfunctional family-systems, emotional illiteracy, fear and oppression of nature, chemical dependence, absence of integrity, and broken relationships. More than an individual practice, it includes developing bonded-human-social-structures (cultures, tribes, clans, and families) that express our true nature as human beings. GaiaYoga Culture is a vision and practice being pioneered at GaiaYoga Gardens that integrates many teachings into a cohesive consciousness and lifestyle or yoga that supports a person in living from their deepest humanity.
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