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[Guest guest]

Apparently this group is not what I thought it was. I am umsubcribing because I really don't care for the politically intolerant tone this group is taking. Hey guess what? Not only pro abortion, sarah palin haters do yoga.

 

Peace out.

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam, Renee and Everyone Else in the Group,

 

Renee's response is exactly what we need to take great care not to

elicit when we are posting re politics or any other issue that has a

tendency to evoke strong emotional responses and reactions. Which is

why I asked in my earlier post for more considered and considerate

communication.

 

Renee, you're right -- people of all political persuasions do yoga and

should be able to feel secure that they will be welcomed by yoga

TEACHERS and yoga practitioners, in class and in life, regardless of

their ideology.

 

Have any of you read what passes for " yoga blogs " out there on the

internet?? Some of the ones I have come across lately are nothing but

screeds against candidates, against positions, boldly proclaiming that

as " true yogis " we must be against this, against that, bring down this

movement, smear that person, on and on ad nauseum. I read a local yoga

teacher's profile in an online teachers directory and was impressed with

the studies she had undertaken and the master teachers she had

apprenticed herself to, and what she put forth as her yoga philosophy.

I thought I'd like to take classes with her. Then I followed a link to

her " yoga blog " and discovered entries filled with rudeness and

crudeness, name-calling, mud-slinging, cursing, all directed toward two

of the candidates in the current election. I am still amazed at the

total disconnect I see there -- but beyond that, I thought, " What if I

hadn't seen that blog and had gone to one of her yoga classes? What if

some political topics came up in discussion before or after class, and I

had expressed a viewpoint radically different from hers? Would she have

nailed me to the wall with her self-righteous yogic take on how I ought

to be thinking about these issues? And how would THAT have been, in

that moment, yoga? "

 

My first spiritual teacher said, " Never sacrifice a person to an idea.

Never value an idea more than a person. "

 

When I read Amar Atma's post on libertarianism, I thought that he

presented a well-reasoned position using neutral, non-threatening

language. (Even when he was so bold as to tell us " the correct politics

for the Aquarian yogi " , he qualified it with " in my opinion " .) I felt

my intellect enagage as I read his post, but not my emotions. And so I

wouldn't feel afraid to go to one of his yoga classes out of fear that

he wouldn't be able to set aside his personal politics and see me simply

as a fellow seeker on the road to liberation. That is the kind of

security and trust that lays the foundation for mutual exchanges that

allow both sides to grow in the wisdom and knowledge that are of

ultimate importance.

 

Nirvair Kaur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kundalini-Yoga , " Renee c " <cyborg565a wrote:

>

> Apparently this group is not what I thought it was. I am umsubcribing

> because I really don't care for the politically intolerant tone this

group

> is taking. Hey guess what? Not only pro abortion, sarah palin haters

do

> yoga.

>

> Peace out.

>