MY first Silent Yoga Retreat was two years ago and I’m running another one next year in March.
There was initial resistance by some of my students. Noooo!
We’ll be bored, be sad, go crazy, two whole days with my own thoughts!
I wrote a couple of emails talking about the value of silence and how important silence is for self-growth.
I mentioned the reality TV stars who fell apart once the TV show was over.
These young people had loved the relentless scrutiny of their lives by the public and when that dried up, they slumped into depression or suicide.
They hadn’t bothered to develop an inner world and self, independent of external influences.
We live life through three energy centres – head, heart and abdomen.
The forces of thinking, feeling and willing.
The more these centres are aligned, the more that person will be able to manifest their soul’s purpose.
For the head centre, this means we must be able to concentrate, go silent and identify which thoughts are ours and which ones are external, imposed or habitual.
For the heart centre this requires us to feel all our emotions without projecting them outwards. By embracing the gift of that emotional energy, we can illuminate our entire being.
The will centre is activated by action. Without will, any thought stays just that – it never manifests into anything real.
In silence we will experience all these energies: our thoughts, our feelings and our desire to act upon those insights.
