Yoga with Casey

Strength and confidence yoga flow 6pm tonight. Free on recreation.ucr.edu. See you then!

Zoom yoga is suspended until next Wednesday - sorry. Please contact me if you want to schedule personal zoom sessions or have questions about the classes I teach thru UCR. Namaste Yogis

Namaste yogis. Tonight’s zoom class is cancelled. Little speed bump with Mom. Love light and prayers are appreciated. Hope to practice with you on Wednesday. I so look forward to our practice time together.

Contact me for the meeting ID if you want to join the zoom yoga.

Warrior Vinyasa flow tonight at 6 on zoom.

April 15, 2020 Meditation meanderings: CHORES I am getting up early again, which gives me time for my meditation and yoga practice and still get down the hall to my home office in time. Routine is important for the mind to be relaxed. The social routine we have been accustomed to for most of our lives has changed and we must adapt. The routine is actually always changing, but usually it is more subtle. It wasn't that long ago that phones had wires. Cars and TV's have not alw...ays been a part of our routines, but we adapted. We used to stay home and do our own chores. In an attempt to make our lives easier we have succeeded in complicating things. There seems to be more stress and anxiety with advent of instant information and social media. Individually we have become more disconnected. Perhaps comparison and competitiveness plays a roll? We see others social media posts and while we celebrate with them on their "perfect" lives, we secretly are jealous, which causes discontent. Discontent is a warning sign that you are not following "your" truth. Since the stay at home order, I have noticed a decline in social media. Maybe we are doing more connected living. More introspection, self inquiry, and re-evaluating what we truly value. For example, today is payday. We value money because it is essential for survival. Beyond that we value money because we think it can buy happiness.We can show the world our status. We can pay others to do our chores for example. What if doing our chores was/is/can be where our real happiness comes from? The sense of accomplishment that we get from completing a task that enriches our experience should not be overlooked. And even better, the joy that is multiplied when we do something for someone else that enriches their experience is crucial to our own well being as much as it is to theirs. See more

I am trying to adapt to these Non Social changes that are going on right now. I have to admit, it has not been easy for me. I have started to journal after my morning meditation so I can get a clearer understanding of what is happening in my head and I am thinking about sharing/discussing with you. This is very intimate and vulnerable. Would this be something you are interested in?

Vinyasa Yoga tonight at 6pm on Zoom. If you don't have the ID# or password let me know. Otherwise same log in as before. The practice tonight will be sweaty. Even if you have little or no yoga experience I encourage you to give it a try. I can help you one on one before or after. Let me know and we can do a private zoom session. My love to you, no charge.

Restorative yoga tomorrow (Friday) at 6pm Live Via Zoom from my living room.

Tonight I am doing my first yoga class remotely for UCR. If you want to join me at 6 pm, send me a message and I will give you the login details for Zoom.

Having come so far as to discover all appearances to be unreal, the final obstacle is the identity of the seeker. The seeker says, ‘I just want to be free,... I just want to be who I am. That is all I want now, nothing else.’ He says, ‘Please remove the last obstacle,’ not knowing that the obstacle is he himself. But all of this has only been our dream-talking, dream-walking, dream-seeking. Now through the Master’s guidance and grace, one must twist oneself loose from this conditioned identity as a seeker by recognising that it too is observable, and is therefore phenomenal. Take time to be anchored in this because this recognition is crucial. The seeker remains dissatisfied and says, ‘You never answer my questions.’ The question and the questioner have been answered but can the ‘seeker’ accept an answer that reveals its unreality? He says, ‘Wow, but without me, how can I be found?’ And I say, Without ‘you’ how can you be lost? When this is grasped, one has found the master key to awakening. ~ Mooji

Creation said: I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality. The eagle said,... Give it to me. I will take it to the moon. The Creator said, No. One day they will go there and find it. The salmon said, I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean. The Creator said, No. They will go there, too. The buffalo said, I will bury it on the Great Plains. The Creator said, They will cut into the skin of the earth and find it even there. Grandmother who lives in the breast of Mother Earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes, said Put it inside of them. And the Creator said, It is done. - Creation story from the Hopi Nation, Arizona - artist: Vasil Woodland