Susanna Barkataki (she/her): welcome to our office hours for November. Wow! I can't believe it's November
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 2023 and we're just a small group today, and I was just sharing with Juliana. I have.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's very dry where I am like very dry and windy like that aggravation time. And actually having a little bit of a nose bleed, which seems to have calmed down. But right before we came on, it's like, Oh, here we go.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so just inviting us to take our time in coming into the space. and I'm thinking what I would love to do is invite a time for reflection, and I'll drop a question in the chat.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we can journal a little bit on that, and I'll play some music, and then we'll come out and and then talk and practice together, and then just pulling up the questions that I want. Actually, I think I'll just riff. So the question that I'm thinking about right now
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is really been reflecting on Isvira Pranadana, and like surrender to something greater than ourselves.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and that trust in the divine, even when things seem hopeless or challenging, or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): can't quite see a way out or a way through.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so I wanted to invite us to journal on that, like the the inquiry around your connection to the divine.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and how Yoga supports you in that.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And you could also. if you'd like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reflect on how you are being a vessel
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for Yoga recently like, how is Yoga showing up for you? And how are you showing up for it?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): are you sure it's it's showing up for you? Yes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So those are our inquiry questions, and we'll take like 3 or 4 min, just to reflect if you'd like to slow down, maybe give yourself a little loving touches or care journal. Meditate. All of those are welcome to you, and I'm going to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): play a rag coffee by Sarathi while we write or reflect
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Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So, taking a minute or 2, just to finish up your writing
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and thank you for your patience with me, as, I took care of my bodily, needs, I'm better better now. But
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just also for those who teach right or hold space. I think it's often so helpful to just be transparent about
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): what's going on not to over center, but part of why I don't try to like. Pretend everything's fine when it's not fine, is because I think people can tell right, and they can feel our energy. And so if I'm over here trying to hide that, I I'm just getting over having a bloody nose, which is something quite common for me, but also can be a little bit alarming for folks who it might not be common for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): then that energy would transmit. So it's better to just be transparent. So for me, that's part of a practice of Satya is being being real with where I'm at, you know. And
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and again, not over focusing and not
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like projecting on to folks. I think that's really important, too, like I can have a little sense of humor about it, and especially if it had turned into a 15 min journaling session, and maybe me guiding a practice with my camera off of relaxation right like there can be some humor there but
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but that the the foundation is self inquiry, and then also like truth and directness.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So I'd love to hear if anyone would like to share out loud or in the chat.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How is your connection flowing to the divine right? Now to Yoga how are you being a vessel for Yoga? And how is Yoga supporting you with the the theme of either?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You know Swaddaya or Ishmar Panidana really present
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this time for us. Whether or not you're on that, you know, in Yoga class curator, that team can always be alive for us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so inviting in reflections in the chat or out loud.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): feel like Yoga gives me access to the spiritual part of myself that I never knew existed this great vast calmness, deep within myself
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that also bears so much strength.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I like to believe that through Yoga practice, and also sometimes teaching classes, I can give some of these feelings to my surrounding friends and family.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's so beautiful.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I really relate to that. And I definitely
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): have experienced that transmission of energy. You know, the from others
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): receiving a sense of calm, or a sense of presence or joy or groundedness through a teacher, but also from folks who weren't even officially teaching, but just carried that energy that I was around
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): anyone else.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes, Stephanie.
Stephanie Robert: Hi, there! Hi!
Stephanie Robert: I think for me what came up was because of the change in seasons just this connection to the earth, and that we're all connected, and that being a part of the philosophy of Yoga and other beliefs and spiritualities as well. But I think that's been coming up for me a lot lately, just feeling that connection to the change that's going on outside, at least in my part of the world.
Stephanie Robert: And my, that connection with the people that I'm practicing with, or just my Matt.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you, Stephanie. Yes, that's that's really beautiful. The
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connection to our environment
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and nature is. It's such a immediate vehicle like we can look around and kind of take in form and color and shape, but also like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there is a different energy right now, especially for many of us. In the northern hemisphere. It's shifting. It's darker. There was a time change for many of us. And
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): there's some tangible kind of palpable shifts in our for many of us, of course not for all in our bodies and our minds in our emotions. And I know sometimes I fight that, or I feel like there's something wrong with me that I wanna rest more, that I'm more tired, or you know these are. This is just my experience. Yours might be different
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): then. I remember right, this is the hibernating time. This is the gathering time. This is the reflecting time, and it's not wrong to need more rest. More. Yoga midra more yin yoga more
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): restorative. Yoga in fact, it's a wonderful opportunity to turn towards those things in the world around us and in our practices. And then, Justine, I see your note. I also love seeing you. I think you're in your classroom. Maybe
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So if you want to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): talk or share, I'm not sure if you're able to you said. I've taken my yoga practice for granted. However, even when I met my limits in the past month, I can honor and have compassion, and I've shut down from work and caretaking of a family member. Yes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm going to set my video off because for some lights. Yes, yes, the lights are too harsh, absolutely. That's wonderful. And I love what you said above about how the beauty of zoom is to be able to shut off the camera when we need to take care of our needs. And I'm so appreciating that, like the the ability to be in our own energies
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also receive energy. Right? Like, we can feel each other's energy in the circle and the space and the intention of growth and learning with Yoga. would anyone else like to share.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I would love to guide a little practice. There were no questions that came in today. For today's office hours. But I think often it's sometimes it's because
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we're in that kind of cultivating time. We're not really necessarily in a time of like having a lot of
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thought, but more like experiential
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): receptivity, and so I thought it might be nice to practice a little bit.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so you're welcome. If you would like to turn off your camera, you can leave it on. It's up to you. Ii enjoy practicing both ways. Just kind of depends on what my my energy is.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I'll guide us in.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then you let me know. Zoom settings have changed, so I'm not sure if you'll be able to hear the bell or not. Can you let me know if you hear this?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): No
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): zoom is so funny. Okay,
yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So we'll leave. We'll leave. The bells are
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): breath as the bell of mindfulness. And so, wherever you are, you can take a deep breath into your nose
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and full breath out through your mouth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe with some sounds
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more time. deepest breath in that you've taken all day and full breath out, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): drop right ear to right shoulder, and then right shoulder down towards the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Let me hear you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can take
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your left hand and stretch it out and away from yourself, or hold on to the chair, if you would like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as a way of lengthening and stretching through the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): left side of your neck. maybe opening and closing your jaw. facing down with the earth up towards the sky. using your other hand, maybe, if you'd like, give yourself a little massage.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): were open the shoulder a little bit more.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then, when you're ready on your own time, letting that hand come down and around
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to rest underneath
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your right jaw at your right temple, and then softly bringing your head up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to center, and taking this opportunity, perhaps, to massage on the side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): give yourself a little bit of tender care.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we'll stretch in the other direction.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): left ear towards left shoulder.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): taking a moment here to just play. gazing down towards the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening and closing your jaw.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then sending your right arm back behind you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): stretching it out.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): be continuing to look down and up.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): using your other hand to massage or open your shoulder a little bit more, give it neck, a little bit of care.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more breath here. and then gently letting your hand come over massaging
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on your left jaw up towards your left temple.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then slowly bringing your head back up to center.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can take both hands and give yourself a little massage around your scalp, your skull, and then.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when you're ready, you can let your hands slide down the back of your head into
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the occipital bones, so that bony ridge at the base of your skull. This gets right into our third eye, Chuckra Center.
So it opens up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as we massage there some of the connection that we can have to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): our intuition, to the divine.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): When you feel satisfied of movement you can make, if you'd like a little bit of a cradle with your hands and then rest them on that point, resting your head, bringing your head forward and softening your shoulders. This invites in some traction opens up the back of your neck.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep, breath in full exhale, dropping your 10 a little bit further towards the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): softening your jaw, softening your eyes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more breath here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then slowly letting your arms and clasp bring them down
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): towards the earth, or the desk, or the terror, or your own body in front of you reaching towards the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you don't need to touch anything or touch the earth, but just sending your energy forward, perhaps finding a deeper bend in your spine, coming down through your lumbar vertebrae
next inhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): releasing this shape, coming up, back up to center, and you can come slowly if you came up quickly, maybe taking your time
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): slowly walking your hands up your body or up the chair. back, up. and then we'll invite ourselves into a counter shape.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So we were folded forward, and now to open the test, and the heart inhaling, arching from your low back, up through your cervical spine, lifting your chin up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and opening most importantly, your heart towards the sky, rolling your shoulder blades back towards one another. You can hold onto a chair or your legs
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling and exhaling here
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more breath.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we'll drop our head forward, rolling our necks in a circle around to one side, then the other.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if that feels good you can keep rolling in circles, or, if you prefer, you can just kind of rock your head side to side, facing forward. For some of us it's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): little too much intensity to go all the way around.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and wherever you are we'll do 3 more circles in this direction. 3 more rocks.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then on your own time, circle your neck
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): around or rock in the other direction.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): One more circle here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we'll invite some movement into our shoulders. so inhaling. Bring your shoulders up, and you can place your hands on your shoulder blades. Sometimes I find that helps me isolate the movement and keep my shoulders away from my ears.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if you would like, you can keep your hands there, or once you feel like you've kind of got that movement. You can expand your arms out, just checking. You're not gonna knock or bump anything around you, and I like to rotate and bring my wrists into this. So it's not just a static.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): circling, but moving, circling.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps inhaling, as you come forward, exhaling as you go back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can continue circling in this direction, or, if you look like, circle your arms the other way.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I like to just rotate back because my shoulders are pulled forward so much just from life and work and typing.
Okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): my anatomy, all of those things
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale and exhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You might be feeling tightness or tenderness in your shoulders, taking a moment just to stretch your arms back behind you. If you'd like, clasp your hands and lift them up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): any amount away from the body, or use the tear.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then exhale hands. Come forward and down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just checking in noticing how you are in this moment. How does it feel to be
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in your form, in your body, tuning in connecting to Yoga itself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll bring those circular motions into our bodies.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): her torso, so you can place your hands on the table, your legs, if you're sitting, maybe on your knees, if you're standing, maybe on your hips and begin to circle around, inhaling one direction, exhaling the other, so this can be as large or as subtle a movement as you like. Mine is feeling nice and large, with my hips.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): spine, neck, shoulders, all getting into the party
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then circling the other way.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): allowing your breath to flow and support your movement.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Beautiful. One more circle here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then bit to Lasana and Marjorie Asana, so inhaling, rolling your shoulders back like we did earlier.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): arching
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): through your front body, sending your tin up towards the sky, and then exhale rounding cat and cow.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): All of these are Pratapana, or practices to awaken and move energy through our spines, and they're like warm up exercises
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in a way for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): well-being, but also warm up for any more vigorous Asana.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): seeing if you can bring in devotion to your movement on your exhale releasing, surrendering
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on your inhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): love connection
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): few more movements like this.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then option to bring this into your legs and thighs. So a couple ways to do this, and one might be, I'm wearing a
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): dress. I didn't plan out in guiding Assana, but this can be done, and in any form, right? So you can rotate your leg around on
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): its axis, one direction rotating through your foot, your ankle, your knee you can stand, or if you're sitting, another option would be to lift your leg up and cradle your leg and move it in circles.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So, however, you would like to do that, and I will stand, I think.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): circling your leg around in one direction
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then another.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you're welcome to as you're moving your leg to hold on to something like chair or wall, or to work on your balance. However, you would like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if you've been circling in one direction, bring your leg around in the other
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): few more circles on this side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then, placing that foot back on the earth, wherever you are, finding your Tadasana seated, standing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): centering within yourself. connecting to your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): particular path of practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): The beauty of Yoga is, you can't really go wrong. There's so many ways to practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And even when we feel like maybe we haven't been practicing
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like, maybe we haven't been on our mats or on our cushions.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Perhaps there's been
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): development or growth with our ethics, or with our kindness or our compassion.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and all of that comes from the solid foundation of ethics and practice, and Yoga in daily life. and so moving from that foundation, now shifting your weight to the other side, lifting up your other leg seated, standing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lying down and rotating your leg around.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): These little movements practically do so much. They serve to lubricate our joints. open up areas of our body where we may not move much if we're sitting or standing a lot.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also provide information for inquiries forced by the Ayato.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): If you've been rotating in one direction. Invitation to go the other way.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Few more circles here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Release your leg back down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): coming into Tadasana.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): seated, standing, lying down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll do some half-sense salutations. So hands come together at your heart.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Inhale, raising arms up overhead. lengthening up slight back, bend.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening your heart towards the sky, and from your heart, leaning forward and down over your body.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): over your desk towards the earth, connecting to the elements that support you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): touching the earth energetically, or with your body
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale hands come up, arms float out wide
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): up towards the sky.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): feeling the support of the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): surrendering, opening your heart in a back bend. exhale hands, come down to heart center.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): continue our flow on your own breath, rhythm inhale hands come up and around.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale. fold forward and down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): releasing towards the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Inhale, lift hands, come up out towards the sky. slight back, bend
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and hands come down to heart center. continuing to move on your own breath, rhythm arms up, out and around.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): down, towards heart center. exhale forward fold.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reaching for the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): pulling in that support and nourishment.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Arms fly around towards the sky, heart opens.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale hands come down to Words Center. We'll do one more cycle like this on your own rhythm.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Look how
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): meet in our Tadasana seated, standing, lying down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): palms press into one another, and then release
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): towards the earth. palms open.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): following your breath into yourself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps letting go anything.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): any thoughts, any obstacles, distractions
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on your exhales.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll practice little bit of meditation here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Your choice, if you would like to find a relaxed shape like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Shavasana or Sukasana and easy pose for meditation.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): something so powerful about
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): choosing to enter our own consciousnesses and doing that together.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So taking strength and support from others, practicing together today here, and who might be watching later.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): choosing a focus for your practice like your breath.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we'll practice for a few minutes. relaxing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): focusing
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): steer
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and Sukha effort with ease.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This is a yoga practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I'll guide us back with my voice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): when it's time.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the Niyama of Ishara Pranidana.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Beautiful practice to explore.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Reflecting with an open mind and heart.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I am aware of the interconnection of all beings
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm open to, and honor energies greater than myself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and tune to the magic of synchronicities
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): open to and in devotion to the divine, as I see, know and understand it.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and connecting to one I am committed. connected to all.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): giving gratitude to Yoga.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to the thousands of years of practitioners. teachers.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): divine beings, realized beings who have practiced and shared this tradition.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so we can come alive to us and for us. for our communities. in all the ways that it does.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): When you're ready you can inhale lifting up your left and your right hand bring together
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): intention and action
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as your hands press into one another.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we'll close our practice with 3 sounds of Om
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connecting to the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): energy of creation. The energy of preservation and perseverance to continue on
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): hmm! The energy of transformation. and the whole sound together gone beyond time, space, form
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): even our intentions themselves, even beyond the method, technique, practice of Yoga itself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath in and full breath out.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): You can receive or chant along
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thank you for your presence. Thank you for your practice. We'll take a moment to blink our eyes open if they were closed, and look around you, taking form, color.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): moving in any way that you would like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then I'd love to invite any reflections or questions that are on your mind or heart, or reflections on this practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Particularly, you know, it can be on anything. But if there's anything around devotion or Ishwar Panidana
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inviting that forward. It's so rare that we get a chance to connect with folks on something
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so profound. I don't feel like this is like everyday conversation in most spaces.
so invitation to to share, even if the thoughts aren't like fully formed, you know, they don't need to be.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also just
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): acknowledging that folks may be in a very peaceful state. Hopefully, you are a little bit more harmonized and nourished.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so no need to share. If you don't want to. We can just
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): gently close our circle and our space with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): some gratitude for one another and a heartfelt.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): heartfelt
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): presence, and and just seeing a note
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): even with devotion, whether it be with practice or with work, I think it's natural to have ups and downs with the intensity of devotion. Yes, absolutely.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm. Gratitude to you, the Sangha and Yoga, yeah. it's so natural, just like the seasons, you know, as we began with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): our devotion will look different, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I think what is also helpful to me or for me is remembering that Yoga is devoted to me too right, and the god of my own understanding right? You might have different ways of conceiving. For me. It's like a divine energy
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is also devoted to me. And so
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sometimes, when my kind of energy, intensity, or practice feels wavery.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I can just
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): receive like, stop trying so hard and let it let it carry me. Let it come.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, never thought of it that way. Yeah, there is so much reciprocity.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so much of the the teachings. They're so.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know, a lot of the early Yogis were mystics. Right they were. They were very nonlinear, non rational, and they were describing experiences of connection with the divine, that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we're just being the divine right themselves that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): are hard to put into words, or even to put a method towards. But so much of it is, that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): permission to just be
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): permission to to receive, to do what we need to, and when we can. But then to let to let the yoga happen to us with us for us.
yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): anyone else.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and again, no pressure. We can always
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): close. I wonder if any of the myst mystics experienced what is NDE
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): near death? Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Well, I mean one of the ones whose lives we have pretty well documented Ramana Maharishi, who has his Ashram in Turvanimalai. He is the saint who asked,
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Over and over and over to his disciples or practitioners? And Himself
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): had asked himself like that question to the point of feeling, like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): complete ego, death. complete dissolution, and death of of who he was.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So we know for sure that he did, and he taught and practiced for a long time for the rest of his life. After that experience, and to his devotees he's still there. His presence is still there, and we, you know whether we travel to Terra Van or just connect to his works his name in the in the chat, in case you're this is sparking something for you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): He is present to ask us. His energy is present to ask us that question
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that inspires a kind of ego, death or death of what we think we are who we think we are. So. Yes, I think I think many of them did.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know, and and some of them. It may have been actual right, like physical, near death experiences
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): through various things like illness, and others would be, would have been perhaps more like Ramanu Maharishi's that were energetic or spiritual or egoic.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): anyone else?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yes. I think it's so beautiful that even though through zoom and online, you feel so supported in your devotion to sitting with others.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's so beautiful. Yeah, I feel very, very grateful to each of you for being here and for your practice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): coming into that presence, you know, and being together.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it opens up the portal to a different kind of
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): experience in my day as well
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one that I work with, but being in community is is so different, so nourishing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So I want to invite us to take maybe one thing with us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and it may not be in words. It might be a feeling or remembrance, something that someone shared, or Ana for yourself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with that we will bow to one another, to the Sangha, the circle
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to the realized yogi within each of us and in the world. And
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can unmute if you'd like, and we'll say goodbye, and I'll see you all soon. Have a wonderful, wonderful day.
Justine (she/her): Thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Cue.
Stephanie Robert: Take care, everyone.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'll.