Greetings
Here we combine ancient wisdom, the practice of yoga, and Rastafari to bring about health and healing. The focus is the body, which houses the spirit, along with a new approach to our anatomy that helps bring mystical teachings to light.
As we do various yoga poses (asanas) together, we will talk, get to know each other, and learn how these body movements improve our well-being. We will also explore the history of yoga, the sacred secretion, kundalini energy, and the importance of breathing, while reasoning on the electromagnetic nature of our reality.
Like a meditation, yoga brings us to the center of the self, which could only be described as an inward journey of transformation and revelation. This is because everything is vibration, and the consistent practice of asanas will gradually raise your frequency, changing who you are.
The seven seals describe this process, for they represent stages as we get closer to Jah.
‘The analogy between yoga and initiation becomes even more marked if we think of the initiatory rites that pursue the creation of a new body.’
- Yoga Immortality and Freedom, Mircea Eliade
I and I
Based in Toronto, Canada and Brighton, Jamaica, I am Rastaman who discovered that yoga is an ideal practice of body movements to merge with the philosophy and livity of Rastafari. Both are rooted in ancient traditions, the search for the sacred, and the pursuit of health, so their fusion takes life to another level.
Over the years, I have travelled to many countries such as Ethiopia and Egypt, obtained a master’s degree in history, written some books (see below), and most importantly, raised a child. Along the way, the hills and valleys of life brought me to yoga in 2012, and I have been practicing daily ever since. This would include a marijuana smoothie or tea that adds another element to yoga because of how we feel our own bodies even more, get deeper into the poses, essentially sink into our selves. This is what I want to share with you.
So, yoga is a mediation, a ritual to be integrated into daily life, and an essential feature of an ital lifestyle. In fact, when I think of paradise, some reggae music, the sun, the sea, ganja, and yoga come to mind.
Blessed
‘Dualities like gain and loss, victory and defeat, fame and shame, body and mind, vanish through mastery of the asanas’
- Light on Yoga, B.K.S Iyengar
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“…to really change the person you are, to change the issues in the tissues, then you really have to make a deep change in the pattern of your body.”
- Tom Myers, Anatomy Trains
A yoga class is a one-on-one session where we will learn about the asanas, explore anatomy, focus on breathing, and talk together about health and healing. There are numerous different poses involving sitting, standing, arm-supported, twisting, and backbends, and we will find the ones that work for you, pin point the parts of your body that need help, and eventually develop a routine of asanas that can be done at any time and in any space.
I am very interested in holding poses for a few minutes, also known as yin yoga, for this is how we heal the deep tissues and remove the knots in our fascia. There is a river system (salt water with an electric current) within the body, that moves through our connective tissue and that as we age, it gets dry, hard and stops flowing, leading to a range of physical ailments. Our goal is to focus on the body as a network of fascia and a tensegrity structure whereby compression and tension relationships are what allows our body to move and heal, and so using this model we can develop a practice that is specific to your individual body needs.
Each class is an hour and half, cost $40 and takes place in my home studio in Toronto or at a beach in Brighton, Jamaica., or a place of your choosing. We will talk, we can go for a walk, reason about life, and do yoga together as both a physical practice and a spiritual one as well. It’s about vibes, energy, sharing stories, healing, and health.
- Jah Rastafari
‘Along its way upward, the kundalini must pass through special locks, or granthis, as they are called in Sanskrit. The granthis are analogues to locks on a canal or riverway. Embedded in each are life lessons. These life lessons often parallel our old issues, which are held within our chakras and appear in the form of blocks.’
- Kundalini, Cyndi Dale
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