Jolly Yoga

Dear Beautiful yogis, Happy Tuesday. It's a giving Tuesday. What are you giving today? What are you doing for others? What are you doing for yourself? I dedicated today for self-love and reflection. I love mountain climbing, climbing mountain provides me renewed sense of excitement for life. I feel energized and rejuvenated. If I can do it, you can do it, we all can do it. Loved Jesse Owens's quotes... I always loved runningit was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. ~Jesse Owens

Happy holi, my beautiful yogis. Happy FullMoon. Remember you are complete and shine your inner light.

Dear beautiful yogis, Namaste. Divine in me bow down to divine in you. January was MLK Jr’s birthday who campaigned for non violence. Who reminded us that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It’s a profound statement because we are one and connected . He took responsibilities of entire nation and the world. ... February was the month of Love. There are lot of legendary stories around Valentine’s Day. He campaigned and sacrificed his life for other people so that they can love rach other and get married. He dedicated his life for higher good, for other’s benefits, not for himself. March is for woman’s Day. How are you celebrating women in your life? How are you doing as a woman? What kind of role you are playing as a woman? As Barack Obama said we came here not to fear the future, we came here to shape. How are you going to shape?? While I was hiking I came across this epigraphy. It made a profound impact on me. The seemingly useless activities like hiking in the nature or in the snow, we leave unavoidable tracks behind that others will follow to find their way. If we are lost, they will be lost as well by following our tracks. We are leaving tracks for our next generation to follow. What kind of tracks will you be leaving behind? We all love our children to be happy, healthy, safe and successful . Every parents in every nation want the same for their kids, yet we are hostile to our fellow citizens, our neighbors, our partners, our siblings, our kids. Would you pause, breathe in this negative energies into your heart , transmute the energy into love , breathe out love and share it with every being so that we can have more harmonious world. Take the full responsibility of everyone’s sufferings and become the CEO of the transform world. Become the CHANGE, become the LOVE, become the PEACE, become the JOY. Have a beautiful contemplation on the Topics I had written. Please leave your thoughts in the comments. With love and hug, Your friend, Jolly

Good morning and Namaste my beautiful Yogis, Cultivate more compassion and let go of being right. Being Right is like a mafia hit-man, a compassion and connection killer. The minute we make ourselves right and someone else wrong, we lose an opportunity to become more emotionally intelligent. We are no longer equals who get triggered to act or react from a wounded place. Equally, when we make ourselves wrong we forget compassion.We are neither wrong nor bad. We are learning and growing through our mistake. As Pema Chodron said Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. -

Dear yogis, we often focus on what’s going wrong around us. Any breaking news in TV or social media is negative news which creates fear and anger in us. I personally do not like fire trails. I love natural trail that is created by either human or animals footsteps which is very narrow, one needs to place one foot in front of another like a fashion show model. Each leg has to cross the center line of our body requiring careful balance and staying at the present moment. I appre...ciated the fire trails for the first time upon seeing the fireman came to rescue injured hiker, sprained ankle. At Grand Canyon I sprained my right ankle on my way to south rim, and left ankle on my way to north rim. The only saving grace in my case was the power of mind over my body. I thanked those firemen for doing wonderful job of rescuing the person. Those firemen placed their lives at danger during the Califirnia wild fires. Make a commitment to yourselves during the month of valentines that every negative news you hear, convert into love in your heart and exhale out the love. Add more love than the anger in the world . Instead of adding fuel to fire, add a drop of tears of compassion for all. If we all do it, we surely can bring more peace and harmony to the world. We are connected and our energies affect others. Salute to our firemen, emergency responders, armies , doctors, nurses and all who dedicated themselves to serve us and others. I am grateful to the city, the state, the country and the beautiful world I am living in. Happy Valentine’s Day

Dear beautiful yogis . Namaste Happy new year from the snow capped mountain where I feel alive. ... 2020 was a remarkable year in our lives. Lot of changes happened. The pandemics shook the entire world and created the fear in humans. I find 2020 brought lot of positive changes in our lives and in the nature. Due to locked down, there is less pollution in Indian Subcontinents, hence people can see clear sky, sunrise, moon set and the mountains . In USA, rangers in National Park and Forests are able to see animals are roaming around freely. It brought families together, people got more time to cook, take up new hobbies and many more opportunities due to freed up commuting time. People United fought for racial injustice. People brought changes in American Government, First Female Vice President in the most patriarchal society. The world is changing for the better. Now we know we are all interconnected with each other and the nature. Our individual action affects others. One infected person not wearing a mask can infect so many people. We always hear interchangeably Be the change, you want to see in the world and If you change, the world will change. In new year, we make many resolutions such as weight loss, career and relationship. These resolutions we make based on our past experiences and our future desires. Our monkey mind dwells between past and futures. We feel pain when we compare our past to our present, we feel anxious when we worry for our future. I am not bringing the topic of comparison with others.... We just saw one infected person in physical level can affect many people in physical level. How about one infected person in emotional level? How do we protect ourselves from the emotional infection from others outside of us?? In Patanjali Yoga Sutra 2 said Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah, which means Yoga is stilling the fluctuations of the mind, or literally translated as: Chitta: mind, consciousness Vritti: waves, fluctuations Nirodhah: to control, to quiet. Can we think beyond asanas? Can we focus on strengthening our mind and protect our mind from the emotional infection? Contact me for the private lessons how to protect your mind from the emotional infection and find the bliss in each moment. May you find peace and bliss each moment of your life in the year 2021. Love and blessings. Jollyyoga

Last night moon caught my eyes with halo around her. I saw halo and full circle rainbow around the sun at the Wheeler Peak Summit. I was jumping in joy . It did rain a bit. I didn’t know the meaning of the halo around the sun or moon.Seeing the image of the moon in Bay Area newspapers made me very happy. The nature is so beautiful and bountiful. I feel so humbled by the nature. Go out if you feel sad and the nature will lift you with it’s generous beauty’s.

I worked in giant Pharmaceutical company for 14 years for the drug discovery and diagnostics. Liver Toxicity in animals due to drug was the reason to discontinue the projects. In My clinical trial management, teacher said " No drug is risk free including the vitamins. We take drugs based on risk vs benefits. If benefits outweigh the risk, you can take it. My recent ER visit, ER doctor prescribed the medicine, the side effects were more severe than my troubles from my sicknes...s. The side effects were Dizziness, Light Headed, Disorientation, Super Sensitivities to the Light, Severe Back Pain, Nausea, Severe Weakness, Increased Palpitations....Dr. Never shared the side effects with me. The medicine was more debilitating to my health. I had no choice but wait for the medicine to clear out of my body which took more than a month. I never had tylenol or any medicine for my daughter who is 14 years old now. I had visited her Pediatrician, she was advising my daughter to take painkiller before even pain starts or take during her cycle. The holistic suggestion should have been eating well, sleeping well, doing light exercise, meditation. Having two parents with two different philosophies and two different values in an entrepreneurial culture, driven by inflated Egos and Power, our children are torn and confused. Money, Power and Selfishness are the demons in our modern society. The success is measured by Money and Power, not by peace and harmony. His lecture resonates with my beliefs, hence I am sharing. I am not suggesting anything here, you use the information at your own discretion . Yoga found me and made a huge difference in me. I am still evolving...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPr78ne62BY

Happy holidays again

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha Share your love and lights.