Recent & Current MYOGA Seasons Videos
If you’re new here, you might have missed this post where I explain how and why I’m freely sharing my signature intermediate level yoga series, MYOGA Seasons:
Or these beginning-of-the-year write-ups and video sharings for the Southern Hemisphere’s longer wrap-up session of the First Summer Season:
And the Northern Hemisphere’s longer wrap-up session of the Deepest Winter Season:
I’ve written extensively in the past on the background, inspirations, and logic behind the selection and sequencing of the fusion of practices that make up each Season. Instead, to catch us up, this post is more simply sharing the videos of the North and South’s different seasons, in the hopes that they aid your self-practice.
But first, some words from our sponsor (kidding, they’re words from the overlord-ess in my mumbling brain)…
I have the great pleasure, again this year, to be on the teaching staff at Raw Power Yoga in Brisbane and today was the first day of their 250 Hour Teacher Training. I forget just how much I love teaching yoga, since I'm not doing it as regularly these days. It's such a thrill to gather together in the yoga studio laboratory and throw ourselves into our crucibles (yoga mats) and see what gold emerges. Especially at the meta level of teaching budding teachers.
Even though I've been teaching yoga for almost half my life, before each session I still find myself wondering how it'll go and whether I'll have what they need. And, more and more, as the practice continues to evolve for me from on-the-mat to in-the-world, I learn to trust that who I am is enough. More than enough. That’s not bragging — just relaxing into what-is, into bee-ing-ness.
The same thing happened this afternoon when I went to a promotional photoshoot for a performance in July I haven't fully written yet, eek! I was able to trust, show up with the ideas I had, and even enjoy the process of co-creation with the photographer.
These days, what I feel coming-to-pass within my ways-of-being in the world is a merger of two phrases I've worked with in the past:
It'll be apparent.
&
I can do no other.
Therefore, there's no need to agonize or fret. Yes, some consideration, mulling, even planning and discernment are required, Yet, until it's apparent, there is nothing to decide or do.
When it is apparent, it's also apparent what needs to be done.
So I do it.
And that ties in neatly with the second phrase, because when it's apparent I truly can do no other. Being patient and present until it is apparent, requires trust. Faith even. Thus, I learn to trust the longer journey.
Which relies on me continuing to learn timing, which requires preparedness, sure, but mostly timing requires presence and trust. And not even trust in myself. Yes, ok, that helps, but I definitely do not always have the answers. Mostly I live in the questions, as Rilke advised. Somedays I struggle to get my words together. Or I go entirely blank. So the trust must-needs be in something higher and greater and wider and deeper than little ol’ “I” can ever be. I trust that it'll all be ok.
Which doesn't mean it’ll turn out how I like, or that I’ll somehow magically avoid pain and death.
There's no way to prevent the external or the karmic.
All I can do is hone the internal and the dharmic.
Do the work that only you can do. Be the person that only you can be.
Which leads me to the current Southern Hemisphere MYOGA Season, Autumn and its focus in Vishuddha chakra, the throat centre of purification, expression, and one's truth. This Mary Oliver poem, The Journey, that I share later in this season says it so well:
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice –
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do –
determined to save
the only life you could save.
So, for those of you in the South (or who don’t really care about the seasonal alignment and want to give the following practice a go), here’s our current Round 1 of Autumn - Clearing the Channels.
For those in the North, Happy Spring! I split the year’s seasons (except Autumn) into 2 to cover our 7 traditional chakras, so y’all up north are now in what I call Brightest Spring and the first round will be released 16 April. If you’re not already subscribed to the MYOGA YouTube channel, that’s the best way to get the video notices, as I’m notoriously erratic in my sharings!
And if you have yet to do the last Northern Hemisphere season - First Spring - here’s that longer wrap-up round. This should keep you busy until next week’s release :)
For those in the Southern Hemisphere who have yet to dive into Fullest Summer, here’s the longer wrap-up round of that season.
Should be that when you go to any of these links you can then see what else is available on MYOGA’s YouTube channel and follow your nose into other Seasons, Basics, Restores or Sounds practices. Any questions, just ask!
