Though many of the yoga texts would get rid of the ego, I think we’d be pretty incohesive without one. How about seeking to have the ego in healthy balance with all aspects of the self.
Invoking the pairs of opposites, the duos, and all the triads—how important they are in the stories we tell of spirit and creation and existence.
I say without hesitation that Ravi Shankar is one of the influences that led me to the deep practices of yoga. When I was first exposed to it through the Beatles in my early childhood, the music appealed to me at a visceral level. Throughout my late childhood and teens, I loved to dance or allow myself to go into a trance state listening to Indian music. On reading of his leaving this body, I take a moment to honor Ravi Shankar.
My goal is a harmoniously engaged mind, not an empty mind (which is the goal of many yoga/meditation traditions). But if it is an emptying to allow a natural replenishment, that’s another conversation.
I went to a two session workshop with Jessica Sandhu at Dupont Circle Yoga today, which, being New Year’s Eve, included an invitation to establish a sankalpa (which is something like setting an intention) and a yoga nidra practice to help instill it.
Then I walked home with the last of the afternoon sun and another spectacular sunset.
