Relax with Leila Sadeghee from stress: Tapasya, Samskara & Mourning

Many of us are affected by stress and fear. In my training courses and offers, I teach a lot about spiritual and emotional work in relation to yoga practice. Most people who practice yogasana are familiar with the heat and intensity of certain aspects of physical practice: tapasya , the spiritual friction of yoga sadhana . While Folx, the physical intensity can withstand a breath of calm and resistance, is valued in today's yoga world, less about the other forms of tapasya that spiritual aspirants go through as part of a true dedication to awakening.

How our past experiences influence us in the present

In his many iterations,

yoga is always a practice of freedom. The tapas - this spiritual heat in practice - are not just a challenge to resist the fire. It is more than just physical condition. Something is cooked in this heat, and that is a little samskara .

Simply and in short, Samskaras are the impressions and prints that leave our positive and negative experiences that lead to our behavior patterns and by which we tend to see the world. Generally positive samskara is one that is entitled to see the world clearly without the overlap of our special living conditions. A negative samskara will make life appear dark in a variety of ways and orient our behavior on behaviors that create less freedom and more suffering.

yoga, as I understand it, is a practice in which we have to familiarize ourselves with our Samskaras - these patterns of consciousness that, as we see it, either distort or clarify. It is a practice to devote attention to these patterns, concern and clarity of seeing. We both learn to see the deception of Samskara as what it really is so that we can make more dharmic decisions, and we can also learn practices that melt, burn away and in other ways we can exercise leverage on these patterns.

So there is the theory. How is it really? Intimacy with samskara for me and other sadhakas, it was a very unpleasant process to recognize many of the darker aspects of themselves and behavior. It means dealing with uncomfortable sensations and experiences with discomfort and a whole series.

how to familiarize yourself with the uncomfortable

I encouraged my students to address these impressions and use all the necessary means. Aus language means both inside and outside the yoga cannon. I see how Folx, who works with these Samskaras, needs as much help as you can get to be free. It is a sticky work - it is uncomfortable - and if you really get involved, it is not as if you're done, bouncing off the mat and the burn is over. Working with the deeper Samskaras can lead to complaints that last longer than their average yogasana session. It is work. There are no two options. It is spiritual and emotional work.

Most yogis I know and who work at this level are very competent in naming certain bandwidths of Samskarische Material and working with it -such as questions from the family of origin -but the collective (traumatic) Samskaras of racism, white supremacy, patriarchy and oppression are largely untracked or undiscovered. In my understanding in this phase of my development, there is simply no freedom without will and a practice that aims to undermine these harmful Samskaras.

and let me make it clear how the work of oppression in my own body feels: uncomfortable, sick, dark, narrow, sticky, painful, weakening, stuck and deeply sad.

It feels similar to the other Samskaras that I have maintained in the course of my Sadhana - and even more difficult because of its collective nature, such as this oppression (Samskaras) are defended and strengthened by institutions and nation states around the world. It is great Samskara. It's not just my body - it's for everyone.

It is also much sad - part of the awakening and the tapas of working with this material is the grief of it. It's not just ordinary emotional work - it is a certain kind of work: it is mourning.

How mourning can help you reduce stress and fear

"mourning" is a term that was shaped by the second wave of feminism of the 1970s. When these women came together to share their personal damage stories under the patriarchy of the white supremacists, the grief and pain of everything they lost individually and together became overwhelming. It is impossible to mourn for yourself, which has been lost in oppression - it is inevitable that you mourn for everyone - for all the damage, everywhere.

mourning is what we go through when we have really lost the truth about what we have really lost in a world in which the majority of living beings are suppressed. When we feel the true costs of the system in which we are born into. And the melting of this Samskaras is very liberating because it enables us to dramatically combine us with our common humanity - and frees us to act in the world in a way that supports the freedom of everyone.

At radical Darshan we invite the students to a powerful work of some very thorny Samskaras at radicals. We are very clear that the freedom of everyone is at stake and is greater than every single person.

From our many years of practice and dedication, it is also clear that freedom that real yoga practice offers is also more extensive than many yogis have never experienced it yet. We know the value and are deeply invested in collective freedom - in fact we believe that this is the only freedom that really exists.

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