Clear the Way for 2024 with a 40 Day Sadhana!

Hope to see you online or in studio soon friends. Tomorrow is 12/12 - an auspicious day to start a new sadhana practice. Join me online for a 40 day meditation to remove blocks. So much clarity needed for us as we wrap up 2023 and ready ourselves to step into abundance for 2024. Click link below to join live each day or get a recording to do on your own time. Registration is only $11 for all 40 days, with the option to contribute more for our yoga scholarship fund. Sat Nam!

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Create your own Sadhana

I have always been a person to pressure myself to the point of blockage when it comes to creating healthy habits. In the past, if I didn't do it perfectly, everyday, and as perfect as can be, well then, it wasn't worth doing. Never until the last few years did I take into consideration that some days have room for revision, and it is ok. Some days, our bodies need rest more than they need to follow a set of rules. We only need to accept our own personal effort. No one else needs to weigh in.

When I embarked on my Kundalini Teacher Training Journey (which incidentally never ends - there is always more to learn, but isn't that the truth in any healing or Spiritual Modality?), we were encouraged to develop a Sadhana and required to experience Aquarian Sadhana.

As Level 1 Kundalini Teachers, we were introduced to Aquarian Sadhana, which truly is a beautiful experience that can elevate you beyond imagination. Learn more here on this post from Snatam Kaur on her experience with AS.

I am an optimistic person, and even though I have spent my entire life running the clock, operating in the Clutch (for the baseball and softball players and fans out there, you know what I mean)

I am limited.

Time is limited.

My sadhana is what I have time for, and all I can say is when I make time for my own sadhana, my day is better.

Even though the pressure is on (or is it?) for the end of the year, the holidays, the crazy collective pressure we create for ourselves as a society in this Western World around December and the holidays. I encourage you to find your own practice that works for you. Do what you need to do to feel good. You are the most important person in your life. And if you are a person who gives and gives, why not give yourself the gift and grace that you give so freely to others?

Hoping to offer inspiration here or at least some perspective at the beginning of December with my Tik Tock video linked here

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8PXpHgN/

December is historically a difficult time in my life. This year is actually even harder than others for various reasons. I am grateful that I now have tools to help myself feel safe, grounded and at peace, when years before it was entirely a blinded run to the finish line using every ounce of energy to the point of an inevitable stomach bug, flu or angry temper tantrum due to the frustration of trying to keep up with my perceived idea of the masses and what they were doing.

Curious to know what your personal daily or periodic practice is? I will be sharing some of the practices that help me in the coming weeks. What works for you? What doesn't?

Sat Nam,

Rev. Julie Silvia (Devi Namdass)

Co-Founder The Current Healing Arts

yoga@thecurrentwithin.org

On 11/11/23 and Always

I honor all of the United States Military men and women, active, retired and deceased. My grandfather was Benjamin H. Corning, Jr., a decorated Navy officer in World War II. His parents were veterans of World War I. That part of my ancestral line has been on this soil since long before the Revolutionary War, when the United States of America was born. When we honor our ancestors, something in our family heals. Something in us heals. It is as simple as that.

I knew Ben affectionally as "Baka", the name my eldest cousin, Etienne, gave him as first born grandchild. Baka died at age 74, and he suffered a lot due to complications of Parkinson's Disease. I was 18 when he passed, and going through intense mental health issues and a series of hospitalizations that prevented me from mourning his and my grandmother's death, which came a few months before. I was on a lot of medication at the time that prevented me from feeling the loss, which is a story for another day.

Baka wore many hats, and I knew him best for being the loving grandfather who loved us all and encouraged creativity and freedom. He was a gardener, a historian, teacher, and had a wonderful sense of humor, not unlike Benny Hill. He was also an accomplished poet. For the past several months, I have been re-reading my grandfather's poetry book that my family put together back in the 1990s, around the time of his passing. The more I read, the more I appreciate him, and what he did for our family, and for this country. I have never served in that capacity. I will never know what it is like, but having a legacy of poems by him helps me empathize with the pain, sacrifice and true strength it takes to be a US Military Veteran. I will continue to share the poetry as well, in an effort to further honor my late grandfather.

In early 2024, we will begin offering a 5 week series for Veteran's and First Responders and others struggling with Post Traumatic Stress at The Current Healing Arts, Inc. in New Bedford, MA. . This series is a Kundalini Yoga Trauma Recovery Trauma Program, which is an integrative approach to treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). More information on this program will be shared within the month, and I will update this blog post with the details. This program will be co-facilitated by myself and Tim Mills (Simran Randeep), Kundalini Yoga Teacher and retired US Air Force Officer. This program is accredited through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), and Tim and I are trained via The Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology. If there are questions on this program, please direct them to Julie Silvia (Devi Namdass) via email at yoga@thecurrentwithin.org and I will schedule a call with you to discuss.