podcast – Kelly Sunrose Yoga

Samadhi Rush Episode 176// The Gunas and A Taste of Kaivalya

Posted on December 2, 2015 by kelly SUNROSE in 60 minutes +, level 2, podcast

Yogin, this episode is super special to me. This is the work that has brought me right to my edge this year. The yoga of the gunas, the relationship of the gunas to the moon and the return to a liberated state.

What are the gunas?

The gunas (in Yoga & Sankya philosophy) are the constituents from which all things are made. They exist in all things in varying proportions all the time.

The gunas are rajas, tamas and sattva. People have been interpreting and talking about the gunas for ages. Here is my personal experience of them, using the moon and my work process as examples

Tamas has the potential of the new moon. It seems like nothing is happening, but all potential is vibrating here. This is the space where new ideas germinate.
Rajas has the energy of the waxing moon. Endeavoring toward fullness. In project management, rajas is where the work is being planned and often while it is actually being created.
Sattva has the sweetness of the day after the full moon. The release. The moment things click. Usually, the work is still in process, but a critical shift in the process has been reached where things aren’t so frenetic. Where the pace is more peaceful, purposeful rather than maniacal.

Oftentimes, these gunas are set up as a hierarchy (and certainly the sattvic approach is quite often the most comfortable), but our work as yogin is to find ease in each of the gunas. Once we do that, they no longer trigger us in the way they once might have. This, according to the Yoga Sutras, is Kaivalya or liberation.

This is where I have been working for the past year. In feeling into all of the gunas. Getting comfortable in the rajas of finishing a project (several, actually) in the tamas of sitting with space and the potential for anxiety with sattva (it’s real).

We’ll talk more about it soon, but here is just a taste.

LOVE you.

Recorded LIVE at LOVE HIVE YOGA. (I’m there Tu/Th/Sa at 9:30am. Come yoke!)

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Practices//

mantra: Om Dum Dhumavati Namaha

Table-Bhaktasana-Table-Downward dog

Bhaktasana with shoulder and triceps exploration

3-legged table into Spanx shake into zippy lunge

Dynamic lunge

Down-dog to plank

Plank

Zombie cobra

Uttanasana

Ardha uttanasana

Betty-Boop Utkatasana

Step & Lengthen

Utthita Parsvakonasana

Virabhadrasana II

Reverse Warrior

Lunge

Tree

Virabhadrasana III

Twisting lunge

Squat

Constructive Rest

Fan Kicks

Integrated Core

Leg Lowers

Bridge toward jalandhara and uddhiyana bandha

Supported Sarvangasana

Supported happy baby

Reclining twist

Rest

Shimmering Yoga for Planet-wide Peace with Kelly Sunrose

Samadhi Rush Episode 175// Planetary Relationship Meditation

Posted on November 25, 2015 by kelly SUNROSE in 30 minutes, meditation, podcast

Shimmering Stars,
I am FEELING it. All.
How about you?

Listening to the NPR program “On the Media” last week, I heard this quote that really struck a chord, “We grieve for one, we grieve for the many.” And I whole-heartedly, whole-bodily agree. From Syria to Mali to Paris to Minneapolis to Chicago and every point on the map in between, I am grieving.

And it is easy to get pulled into a spiral of despair.
How can we help? What can I do? Does what I do really matter? Will what I’m doing ever be enough?
And then the body reminds me that yes, even the tiniest shift reverberates throughout the vastness. We feel that when we lift the eyebrows or drink an especially nourishing meal. It matters.
You matter.
Thank you for all you do to affect positive change in this world. We do this through every interaction: at the post office, with our children, in the sanctum of our own thoughts.

Today’s episode of Samadhi Rush is a meditation to help us practice finding the feelings of equanimity, compassion and love. For one, for the many. Come back to these whenever you can. It matters.

These feeling-tones come to us (in the yoga context) from Yoga Sutra 1.33, which you might think of as the yoga of relationship. We’ve swum in these waters before. This is important work. Studying just how we show up in relationship to each other, ourselves, this planet… this is the work of our lives. It matters.

(More on Yoga Sutra 1.33 in this post, this one, episode 51, episode 59, episode 86, and more.)

Dedicated with much gratitude to my teachers, especially Kira Ryder, who first taught me the magic of embodied mantra.

LOVE you all.