Prototypes Women's Center: Can the Thoughts effect our feelings? 3.5. 12

This is a combined blog of two hour long back to back classes at Prototypes.

We had many new women at the center and I taught again about the Central Nervous System and Recovery. It was exiting to hear some of the women who have been there for a while say and answer some often-posed questions during the "lecture" like 'parasympathetic" and 'Am I Safe'. This all is highly useful information for peeps in recovery. We then moved on to the kleshas.

It was one of those days where it seemed like I had audience 'plants', but I assure you I did not! The questions the women raised played exactly into where I was headed in the lecture, so the material flowed. One of the favorite questions which really lead the classes today was 'can the thoughts change the way I feel'.

Our practices today played with this and it was powerful medicine.


CNS, ANS, PNS, SNS lecture
Am I safe?

Discussion of Thoughts

Presentation of Kleshas

Practice:

Nadi Sodhana following the movement of the breath with movement of mind

So Hum meditation

Hum So meditation
discussion, if a simple mantra can do this, what do you think happens when we have thoughts like "I hate myself", "I am not worth it", I'm a loser, There is not hope for me...etc. This provoked a massive quiet and stillness in the room. Followed by much liberated discussion. It was very exciting to hear the women talk about this concept in their own words.

windshield wiper

eye of the needle

sukasana side bending

tadasana
uttanasana

shoulder rolls and shurgs

lunge salutes

cobra
locust play

bridge

easy twist

savasana

sit
Namaste