Yogic Lifestyle - Nutrition and Cleansing Practices November 1, 2009

Terry and Jay Gupta live the yogic lifestyle. They travel frequently to India and are the founders of YogaCaps www.yogacaps.org - a non-profit organization dedicated to outreach, education and research on ways that yogic practices enhance our health and well-being.
In this workshop they will present the kriyas - ancient and natural cleansing processes. The immediate focus of these processes is the body, but, of course they act to purify or lift the veils covering the mind and spirit as well. Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD writes that "purification has to do with removing the obstacles to clarity, of getting back to one's true self." (Crossing to Avalon, page 262). That's how the kriyas serve as preparation for something deeper.

Kriyas are one of several personal disciplines (shaucha) described by Patanjali (sutras II:40-41) that lead to purification of the senses and the mind for higher purposes. In addition to the kriyas listed below, perhaps the best cleansing/purification comes from the practice of bhakti yoga.

YogaCaps believes that the kriyas are an important practice for all of us. They are an integral part of the practice of yoga and an essential part of living in harmony with nature. In fact, kriyas are even more important today than when the yogi's practiced them many thousands of years ago since most of us live, work and breathe in a world that is far from pristine. Our often hectic lives include regular intake of myriads of chemicals, pollutants and other toxins that may overtax the systems of our miraculous bodies. This is not even mentioning the many potential attacks on our spirit during the course of one day and our own potentially harmful thoughts. All this leads to dis-ease, and eventually disease. These cleansing processes refresh and re-set the body's systems. They also re-fresh and re-set our mind and spirit in incredible ways, preparing us for higher states of consciousness and enlightenment.

To register - contact Maureen Spencer, RN at [email protected] or call 781 878-0115

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