guru purnima & satsang: sunday, 25 july 2010

i just want to let you know that we will be celebrating guru purnima this sunday, 25 july. guru purnima is the day in which we celebrate and give thanks to our teachers and lineage of gurus, and also when we reflect and review our progress on our spiritual path and renew our focus. it is also the day in which we celebrated guruji’s (sri k. pattabhi jois) birthday.

instead of a normal led class, we will be doing a class of 108 led sun salutations as our offering. we will begin at 10am and after we have finished there will be satsang. satsang in sanskrit is derived from 2 words: sat = true & sanga = company and in indian philosophy means a spiritual discourse or sacred gathering for those who want to listen to, talk about, and assimilate the "highest truth". most of all, i just want to have an opportunity for us to come together and to speak about some aspects of the ashtanga yoga practice that are not being addressed in the daily classes. also, it will be an occasion in which one can raise any questions or issues that one has surrounding the practice.

you may come and join in on the sun salutations and satsang and leave when you choose. please note, that this guru purnima and satsang are only open to monthly students of casaAbhyasa – ashtanga yoga barcelona and is free to those of you have paid your monthly fees or already attended class this month. for those of you who haven’t and would like to attend, please leave a small donation (if you can and want to).

i hope that you will take the time to come to this as an important part of this practice is devotion and gratitude. it will also be a nice opportunity to bring everyone together and maintain our sense of community as practitioners.

with gratitude… take care… much love and peace, namaste hojung