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November 2009 
What, or who, has saved your life?
Posted on Aug 17th, 2008
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Shameslaya
Shameslaya
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 17, 2008:
The practice of yoga.
If I had not found this method of deepening connection with the largeness of life, love,liberty, loquatiousness ....well no not loquatiousness....always had that...trying to be clever here with all the 'lliteratives.....uh...
Essentially, if I had not found a way of deepening this connection to Life, I would have remained alone with only my cigarettes and alcahol and drugs for company....my lungs and liver would have rotted out by now..... and if I were not dead, I'd be as good as.
Om nama Shivaya
Jon x
If I had not found this method of deepening connection with the largeness of life, love,liberty, loquatiousness ....well no not loquatiousness....always had that...trying to be clever here with all the 'lliteratives.....uh...
Essentially, if I had not found a way of deepening this connection to Life, I would have remained alone with only my cigarettes and alcahol and drugs for company....my lungs and liver would have rotted out by now..... and if I were not dead, I'd be as good as.
Om nama Shivaya
Jon x
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Bravo, Jon. I love yoga too.
Thanx Paul….J x
jon –
yoga has similarly saved my life. high mountain hikes too. and meditation. and love- the friend kind and the lover kind and the every kind.
yoga is still deepening me and opening me everyday. your simple words here reinforce that notion.
thanks.
-dawn
yoga has saved your life and you in turn have brought so much insight, peace, joy to others.
Thanx Dawn..I'm typing this whilst awaiting the advent of Tam, walking boots and all…we are off up over the hilltops of Malham today…
Nicole….thank you….I don't, in all truth, know whether I do bring insight and joy to others…certainly I would contend that I don't bring peace!!….and I thank you for yr consideration…
Love and blessings, jon xx
this place? Malham the only parts of Europe I've ever visited are all over Iceland and the Oslo part of Norway. I've got to get out more. :-) but I do a lot of vicarious traveling by book and by internet.
That's the one…I'll post up a pic for ya tonight…gotta go now….ciaou..J x
God I'm so glad the yoga caught you. What a waste of a life that would have been. You've brought value to us, no doubt about it.
Blessings to you. Sherri
Yay for yoga and for the Jon here we all know and love!
Aley
Yay for you lightbringers, too Aley, Sherri….thanx
Jon x
I love yoga too Jon…and also qigong…both have been powerful allies. I want to get more committed to yoga practice and have seriously considered taking the Kriaplu teacher training as Im drawn to help plus sized women such as myself find the peace with my body that I have found through yoga. Youre an inspiriation with your dedicate to this practice Jon. TY!
Julia, you have my support. GO FOR IT! I encourage your creativity.
Much love. Sherri
Sounds like you had a good weekend with your yoga? How amazing that we can say practices like these have saved our lives & enriched us so much. So glad that Yoga has enriched you (and through you, so many others!) Blessings, Jon.
Hi Jon the great !!
..i can very well understand when you say ” The practice of yoga “, because i have
many good friends here who are deeply devoted to their daily ritual of Yoga without which
they feel lost !!….even though i am in the birth place of Yoga-India i somehow am not able
to get around to practice it …nevertheless , i regularly read books and articles on
Yoga….you will not believe me , but let me disclose that when i come across the word
Yoga in any form , three names flash across my mental frame instantly ,They are–
Patanjali , B K S Iyengar and , and , hold your breath…our own lovely J o n !!!…..long live
Jon i and many , nay, innumerable friends in Gaia love you and admire you for all that you
are!!!……may your tribe increase !!…….
love and blessings
jagadish
ps : BTW i also belong to IYENGAR community !!!
I love yoga too. my mat is over there on the floor. I leave it there so I won't forget. Sometimes I forget and sometimes I don't want to do it. Sometimes I force myself and I just get through it and sometimes I make myself do it and it is the most wonderful thing.
Yeah…always do it, whatever..it is its own reward.
J x