FOOD IS MEDICINE*LIVING IS SPIRITUAL (INTRODUCTION)

"As above, so below. As within, so without."
(Hermes)

Yoga & Ayurveda

The seasons change and so with them, we too must change!   How we orientate, interact and take care of ourselves, nature, and life must be according to the time honored seasons.  This is the yogic way of union.  

This is the Ayurvedic way or life knowledge.  

Ayurveda is the sister science of Yoga...

that guides us in how to deeply nourish and nurture our bodies and minds in balance and harmony with the elements, the building blocks of this manifest universe.  Revering, interacting, and preparing proper foods, herbs, & medicine from the natural world, Ayurveda has for millennia, been kin to Yoga and therefore bestows a powerful medicine for us today: to live, eat, and ingest natural, organic, whole foods and medicines such that our bodies and minds are in greater resonance with the universe.  How we eat, how we breath, how we live and move with diverse ecosystems,  how we give and receive, & how we rest and restore, are the immortal keys to raising our consciousness such that spiritual development and that of the planet unfolds with least resistance.  It is quintessentially Taoist as it is the essence of who we are to do so!  It is a way of living, an attitude, a philosophy that returns us to the inherent wisdom within nature and its cycles and thereby, to the inherent wisdom within ourselves...

The more we live in union with nature, with our universe, the more we will  be sublimely empowered with what Zen Master Yoda would call, "The Force."   

Why?  This is because as Hermes said, "As above, so below. As within, so without.", the core wisdom upon which yoga and ayurveda have stood for millennia. 

 That force is THE  fountain from which true vitality and radiance come allowing our physical bodies to be light, our minds to be clear and at peace, our hearts to love unconditionally, and our consciousness to rise to spiritual heights.  

Helping to cultivate a treasure house of health, healing, fitness, and conscious development  in their purest, highest forms, I will be writing more about yogic lifestyle & optimal nutrition from Ayurvedic and Taoist perspectives. Combined with more current, progressive  ideas and thinkers on health & healing,  I hope to build a strong relationship between our bodies, our minds, 
and the foods and medicine we ingest in future blogs titled: 



  Food is Medicine * Living is Spiritual

Topics Covered:
-yogic, ayurvedic, Taoist wisdom
-nourishing, nutritious recipes
-raw juice concoctions

-super smoothies
-herbs, spices, & medicinals
-healing practices
-raising of consciousness & ones vibrational frequency
-self-care
-applied ethics
-holding space & acting from our higher selves
-yoga therapy perspectives


To balancing and harmonizing ourselves with the universe!
Prema Devii 
500 RYT, M.A.

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Yogic Meditation for lunar eclipse: October 19th 2013

Yogic Meditation 
for the lunar eclipse... 

The lunar eclipse occurs this day Oct. 18th, a time of planet, sun, and moon alignment.  The forces of these celestial bodies no doubt creating a force within us that can go deep to the heart of the change that our soul so desperately needs to meet.  We can find ourselves depending on the readiness, preparedness, and work we've done or not done in our body, mind, heart, and spirit, we can find ourselves in states from denial, fear, struggle, loss, or death to states of acceptance, love, resolution, gain, or rebirth.  

Our meditation practice can therefore provide the foundation for the inner work involved to move through it by providing a steadfast determination toward the central point of it all where movement subsides and a clear, quiet knowing arises.  Like the mountain that is large and vast at its base, it rises above to greater heights and points of view across the horizon of life...and only at its peak does one gain that 360 degree direct experience with all that is.  From elevating upward to a more expanded awareness or consciousness, one can experience the one consciousness behind it all.  Connecting or meditating to such a state of mind where you can flow in that one consciousness, IS where clarity and firm action comes through resolutely, opening the floodgates that have halted your inner growth.  From here comes the strength to set in order that that has been chaotic or even confusing as the value of our time on this earth becomes clear as day.  To set in balance that that has been tipping the scales keeping us running to and fro for there is no right or left just front and center.  And from the heart at this vantage we feel the entirety of it all and the meaning and purpose of our life in it. We are blessed with that fleeting but powerful mystical drop of the infinite having come through our crown to the root of our very existence.

May we taste that drop and meet the infinite such that the inner work we all must do on our personal unique journey here, is done with grace, kindness, and pure love for ourselves and each other.

Yogic Meditation Workshop

Saturday

October 19th

6pm-7:30pm

$10

*yoga asanas 

*gayatri mantra 13x for the eclipse/full moon

*25 min meditation

*soup & sharing

Please call/text/ or email to reserve your spot!

Prema Devii 

(Yoga Therapist, 500 RYT,  M.A. Education)

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

hatarajyogacenter.com

Harvest moon into fall equinox meditation workshop: 

Saturday 

September 21st 2013

6:00-8:00pm

                         $10

Today, September 19th 2013 is our harvest moon and on Sunday, September 21st it will be our fall equinox.  In the fullness of the moon we transition into an opportunity to balance as the equinox is a time of equal day and night...a momentary portal within which we can harness or harvest the harmony and balance of nature and its cycles.  This portal, this point where the moon face shines in full spectrum of the sun is our chance to also, look straight through all the confusion, drama, hurt, and fear directly and embrace the opposite...soak up the opposite.  Harnessing the clarity, meditation, love, and courage to hold in balance for ourselves and others, our dual, human  nature such that a unity consciousness of a spiritual nature can lead the way, into the oncoming darkening days.  It is a time also, to reflect on all the fruits of our inward and outward labor from the year and integrate them deep within, such that all lessons and wisdom truly become part of us on a cellular level.  From this psychic nourishment we can extend our roots deeper into our mother earth and tap into her well of unconditional love so that we may draw up the feminine and meet the masculine in better equilibrium within ourselves and society.  Expressing that balance in everything we intend, think, and do and celebrating in a more organic, holistic, homeostasis that is regenerating, rejuvenating, restoring, and revitalizing to our soul.  

In this meditation workshop we will be guided in a full hour of restorative yoga poses, essential oils/essences, guided relaxation and visualizations, sound therapy, and journal writing to initiate our entrance into the womb of fall where we each so desperately need to nourish, nurture, and become one with ourselves...

Join us in our sacred circle, sacred space, and sacred support as we celebrate with meaningful ritual and supportive practices, the natural cycles of life and their purpose in our lives.

Gifts for the Evening

*healing medicine: herbal teas

*nourishing carrot yam coconut soup to share and ground our evening

*workshop journal & flower

***Please call or email to register***

Prema Devii "Trish"

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

Reflections from our Meditation: August 24th 2013

Reflections from our Meditation:
August 24th 2013
 " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite."  
William Blake

Keep your meditation time as a special, sacred time for you to enter, and find refuge from the day to day world.  Allow it to be the place where you find space within yourself to detach from the mind, a space where you can simply witness its' functioning, processing, and patterns with wonder and interest so that you remain open and willing to really reflect on what you find and learn about yourself from it.  This is the beginning of cultivating that most intimate relationship wherein the universal "I" or higher self can heal, teach, and transform the small "I" or ego self that battles, struggles, and suffers to find wholeness and peace.  Know that this is the practice for you to transcend the day to day duality that the ego thrives in, that world of opposites where it is pushed and pulled between highs and lows, better and worse, love and hate, fear and courage.  Your meditation is the laboratory where you transcend that "battling," that "drama" so that you can have rest and connect to what is the real truth: that it is your birthright to experience unity, oneness, and connection with all things, that you are not alone, you are not separate, you are not lacking in anything ever, that everything you truly need and desire is within that most sacred heart space.  For you, in your natural, divine state that is directly experienced when you silence your mental thought waves, remember the sacred company, eternal connection, and wholeness within which you are part.  As you tune into your breath inhaling life energy and affirmations that nourish and serve, you likewise exhale toxins and negativity that devitalize and don't serve.  That brief pause between receiving and releasing, living and dying is the glimpse, a taste of what meditation is.  Be steady and regular in your meditation, make it a habit, part of your daily routine and that pause, that suspension of mental chatter, will deepen and expand and your sense of time will fade.  For that suspension is an example of the pure meditative flow that brings us to the riverbank of deep, eternal peace, joy, stillness, quiet, and oneness...  That suspension of thought called meditation is medicine for the mind, body, and spirit because it "recalibrates" us, brings us deep into the healing mode of our parasympathetic nervous system and activates brain wave states that open the doorway to a cleansed perception, an inner knowing, pure realization, and liberating expansion of consciousness that dissolves the indoctrination, conditioning, and fear that limits us and keeps us down. 

 Take time and patience in your meditation to really receive, absorb, and feel the essence of being greater, wiser, compassionate, and empowered by the more loving presence you are developing within yourself.  Allow the mind to come to this riverbank by taking each meditation as a unique journey all its' own, a journey back to that peaceful joy and still quiet wherein your true divine being can be seen.  Look, do you see yourself more clearly than ever.  Listen, do you hear the resonance in your own true, divine voice.  Feel its' high vibration that comes through when the dulling beta waves and distractions and noise are put to rest.  Wait patiently for its' alpha state of relaxation and calm to bring you into the vivid imagery and/or guidance of theta meditation where the lines between this world and that begin to merge.  No longer in the droning monotony of the mundane life with its' push and pull to have this and leave that but, flow further still with trust, faith, and surrender to the highest source of life.... toward limitless possibilities of ecstasy and bliss by  merging with the great, expanded mind of the one consciousness from which all life has come.  Pay homage here, for you have arrived from traveling without to the sacred travel within.  As Hafiz the famous Sufi poet might say, take off your coat...stay awhile, for you have arrived at the love which has no end.  


Thank you for a beautiful meditation evening and honoring of our space and time together as one.  

Om Mani Padme Hum

Om to the diamond gem within you!!!!

An ancient mantra of Tibetan Buddhists Monks

Namaste and may the blessings of the evening shine through with each passing day!

Prema Devii

REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT MEDITATION WORKSHOPS:

SEPTEMBER 7TH

SEPTEMER 21ST

808-269-2638

trishteaches@gmail.com

hatarajyogacenter.com

YOGA & MEDITATION

1) Learn the 8 steps to yogic meditation

2) Practice yoga postures/asanas in a way that balances the glands of the body, balancing hormones = balancing emotions

3) Practice group meditation 20 min

4) Sharing/Reflections

TONIGHT:   June 29th, 2013

6:30pm - 7:30pm

$10

J.A.S Dance Studio

3181 Cleveland Ave

Prema Devii “Trish”

(RYT 500, M.A. Education)

hatarajyogacenter.com

808-269-2638

Prema Devii Yoga: Yoga: Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel (Santa Rosa...

Prema Devii Yoga: Yoga: Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel (Santa Rosa...: Y O G A  (focus: CORE STRENGTH) Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel 3555 Round Barn Blvd Santa Rosa, CA 95403 (707) 523-7555 ...

Yoga: Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel (Santa Rosa) w/ Prema Devii "Trish"!!!!

Y O G A 
(focus: CORE STRENGTH)

Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel

3555 Round Barn Blvd

Santa Rosa, CA 95403

(707) 523-7555

SATURDAYS

9:30am -10:45am

$20

 Bring friends & family to enjoy the beautiful grounds and hotel restaurant to make it a day of wellness!!! 

Trish "Prema Devii" instructs half the class using structural yoga therapy which informs you on how to move and breath to rehabilitate, heal, and address pressing issues that may be limiting your free movement.  Valuable insight and knowledge is shared so as to empower people to start, maintain, and develop in their practice.  Last, she uses traditional yoga poses to align, balance, stretch, open, and strengthen.  With her knowledge of Thai yoga posturing/massage, you will leave revitalized and balanced in energy. 

Recommended: Bring a mat & don't eat within 2 hrs of practice

Prema Devii "Trish"
808-269-2638
hatarajyogacenter.com
trishteaches@gmail.com