When we started to talk about the heart chakra I knew\u00a0I may get emotional. \u00a0 I was pretty sure it was going to get deep, intense and powerful. \u00a0 At this point with the practice I am open and ready and want to keep going deeper so come what may I’m listening. \u00a0I came here to get direct knowledge from Tim Miller who every days comes to spend the day with us from 6 am to pretty much 6 pm and if he is teaching a class after our normal session then it’s till 7 or 7:30 pm. \u00a0He puts in the hours with us and is showing a lot of love to us all. \u00a0He’s so amazing at this and it all comes so natural to him. \u00a0He temperament is calm, loving, patient and he is full of the knowledge and he shares stories\u00a0with us openly holding nothing back it seems.<\/p>\n
Tim enjoys discussing Vedic astrology with us and since Friday is linked with the planet Venus it is a day of Bhakti and Devotion. \u00a0By now we know what this means as the harmonium is situated to be used so we are going to get to do some chanting together. \u00a0 \u00a0The heart chakra is called the Anahata chakra and this means unstruck wheel. \u00a0I looked this up to see if I could find a good translation of this and found it in a yoga journal article as follows, “unstruck or unhurt. \u00a0Its name implies that deep beneath our personal stories of brokenness and the pain in our heart, wholeness, boundless love , and a wellspring of compassion reside.”<\/p>\n
We had just come through a good hour going over kapotasana so we have all been tapping into this center. \u00a0It was like we were so ripe for the discussion when we returned from a break. \u00a0We all tried to open he heart. \u00a0 As we went on to discuss the heart charka as an energy body Tim said that although we would like to open the heart it cannot be done by force. \u00a0 So how does one open the heart? \u00a0We all sat thinking and said things like grace, gratitude, devotion and compassion is what we are looking to cultivate deeply. \u00a0 Gratitude helps to develop grace and gratitude cultivates devotion. \u00a0The chant we do everyday puts us in reminder of that.<\/p>\n
Tim’s life must have gone in a whole new direction the day he found the practice or the practice found him. \u00a0 When he talks about Pattabhi Jois, his eyes are bright and full of love and full of gratitude. \u00a0 \u00a0It’s amazing and beautiful to experience. \u00a0He talks about the first days when his teachers in California told him that Guruji was coming for three months to teach that first time 1975. \u00a0When I experience Tim’s teaching I fell like he is the embodiment of Guruji and the closest I can come to the source. \u00a0What struck the heart chakra today was when Tim spoke of Guruji and how it was possible to do what he did for so long. \u00a0 He spoke of how he loved to teach the students and how teaching was what he lived for. \u00a0 It was when he could no longer teach that he could not last much longer in his body and passed. \u00a0 As Tim said, it’s that divine love and devotion that is the ojas (vigor or fluid of life) and the long burning fuel for the practice. \u00a0 Guruji’s devotion was the long burning fuel for teachning.<\/p>\n
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