40 Days to Personal Revolution Introduction
Book: 40 Days to Personal Revolution by Baron Baptiste.
Outline, sanskrit terms and additional questions by Kim Preveza
Week 1 Presence Nov 11-17 Week 2 Vitality Nov 18-24 Week 3 Equanimity Nov 25- Dec 1 Week 4 Restoration Dec 2-8 Week 5 Centering Dec 9-15 (TBA)Week 6 Triumph Dec 16-22 (TBA)Week 7 After the Revolution Dec 23- Jan 1 (TBA)
Why 40 Days?
Significance in Transformation.
Jesus 40 Days
Moses 40 Years
Noah 40 Days and 40 Nights
Every Day is a new day -- Practice everyday, in class, at home, meditation.
Make a Schedule, Home and Studio. Days and times
Recommit -- seek the truth
Format
Each week will cover:
- Specific Poses, -- Try to do first thing in morning, Ujjayi Breath (Ocean Sounding), Uddiyana Bandha (Belly Lock),
- Meditations, -- Awareness based, morning and night
- Balancing Diet. -- Each Week Insights into eating for balance that fit with the theme: patterns, fresh food, cravings, fruit-fast, essential minerals, review
- Excavation Questions -- just becoming aware of your answers, recommend to write answers down.
- Pick a day to rest
12 Laws/Foundations All Interconnected
Seek the Truth, Satya
- Accept “acknowledge lack of right direction, repent, rebuild, remap
What Truth will set you free?
Be Willing to Come Apart, Aparigraha -- Non-grasping
- Non-controlling,
- Giving up control,
- Surrender
- Fighting=getting
- Allowing things to happen
Where can you allow things to happen rather than trying to control them?
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone, Samskaras -- Past Conditioning
- Drop patterns and stories of the past
- Take off Masks
- Embrace Fears of unknown
When are you living in the stories of the past?
What fears of the unknown can you embrace?
Commit to Growth, Tapas -- Discipline
- No exit door
- “Stay with ourselves no matter what”
When you want to run what happens if you stay, with the stretch, the difficult pose, the fight or flight response?
Shift Your Vision, Awaken the Third- Eye
- Attention -- mental focus, brings energy to whatever you are focusing upon
- Right Intention -- “awareness of what you need to do in the back of your mind.”
- Faith -- Leap of faith.
What has your attention right now?
What intentions are calling you?
Where can you take a leap of faith?
Drop What You Know, Svadhyaya - Self Study
- “Shift from living from your head into trusting what’s in your heart
- Intuition
- Inner Teacher
- Let go
- Stop thinking about right and wrong and become fully present in your body, feel what is right.
What would happen if you listened to your inner voice?
Relax with what is, Santosha -- Contentment
- See how much more effective relaxing is than struggling
- Choices in poses (and life):
- Run Away (come out of the pose)
- Stay and struggle
- Stay, relax, and discover what is really there
C. Recognize difference between good and bad pain
What poses would benefit from relaxing with what is?
What parts of life would it be helpful to relax with what is?
Remove the Rocks, Kleshas/ Obstacles
- Unlearn Pride, Fear, Conditioning, Resistance
- Say one thing you want to let go of -- or write it down
- Meditation and Excavation Questions -- remove clutter of the mind
“What rocks are you holding on to?” BB
Don't Rush the Process, Aparigraha
- Swept up in doing, achieving, accomplishing
- Practice Patience
- The Principle of Process
- Love the Journey
What processes do you rush?
Be True to Yourself , Yamas and Niyamas-- Ethics and Morals
- True to your values and morals
- Inner Compass
- Speak your Truth
When do you hold back being true to yourself and why?
Be Still and Know, Praythara -- Sense Withdrawl
- Meditation and/or prayer
- Also a way of life--cease business, stressing, etc
How does it feel to be still? quiet?
Understand that the Whole is the Goal, Yoga, Yuj, to Connect
- “We don’t transform in parts”
Where do you compartmentalize your life? Where would it be helpful to see it as a whole?
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