Awakened Men
Our Societies & Times Need Spiritually Strong Impeccable Men
Gathering men together to explore their innate spiritual nature and capacity generates a space that can meet the full nuance of a man's experience.
Modern societies have generated, or orchestrated, a very confusing space to know the full beauty and power of being of the male gender, just as it has for women.
Men can find common ground when they come together and begin to carve away the layers of imposed and stereotypical gender casting and find what is for them an authentic expression of their innate qualities. Men can be all shades of human expression and potential.
Yoga gives numerous means and pathways to mine our own depths and draw ourselves out of the ashes of our past into the flaming brightness of our potentialities as a male, as a human being and as a soul beyond it all. Our societies need strong wise and humble men.
Yoga equips us with the tools to self observe. This is the capacity to bear witness to ourselves and our lives without judgment, analysis, shame, rage or guilt, it is an observational power that is a unique quality of perceiving only (called darshana). This is all that is required to effect change and transformation.
Yoga offers us a practice called 'Pratipaksha Bhavana' the yoga of reversal. Sounds complicated. But it isn't, it requires the power of observation, open awareness, or the ability to caste a light on what IS. Recognizing the behaviors and habits that generate pain and suffering for ourselves and others and then applying a practice or new habit that reverses or brings a counter force to the tendency energetically. The only key is that the reversal practice has to have greater strength than the disturbing tendency.
Yoga offers us ways to find peace and equilibrium even as we travel through our own phases of transformation. The journey becomes one that casts us as our own humble hero, and equips us with the tools and awakened wisdoms to be our own guide to move ourselves on a forward and inward trajectory.
Yoga offers a teaching, a practice and a tool for every human situation, circumstance, issue and aspiration. It carries an infinite capacity to instruct and transform, empower and awaken.
The stuff of our lives is the gold, right where we are is our most powerful point of entry to develop altered traits and states and ways of interface with the unfolding, ever changing nature of life better equipped to walk wisely and intelligently.
We emerge from such a process less encumbered, more resourceful, equipped with patience and the power to make choices guided by an innate intuitive intelligence, we awaken within ourselves a quality of trust in the divine play of our own lives.
If you are a man seeking such a way forward take a look at our Men’s Retreats