Welcome to Joya Blog

2009-09-21T06:57:00.000-07:00

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

Rest

2008-07-15T01:58:00.000-07:00

natural great peace,
this exausted mind,
beaten helplessly by karma and
neurotic thoughts,
like the relentlss fury of the
pounding waves in the
infinate ocean of
samsara.
rest in
natural great peace.
rest

Shakti

2008-04-18T14:41:00.000-07:00

Surrounded by swirling waters
A grove of wondrous growth
And dark passages;
In it, a secret chamber
Of lustrous gems;
The abode of Primal Energy-
She who knows how to create life
from her body.
Vibrant and pulsating
She rises-
Bird-like
River-like
Descending on Shiva's head-
Ascending 'Shakti'.

Love poem or RUMI

2008-04-08T15:03:00.000-07:00

In your light I learn to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.

Lokah Samasta

2008-02-08T00:41:00.000-08:00

May All Beigns Be Happy, and May My Thoughts,Words and Deeds Contribute in Some Way to the Happiness of All Beings.

Lokah Samasta
Sukino Bhavantu
Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi*

2008-01-28T08:24:00.001-08:00

Dear students and friends of yoga

here below I am proposing you 2 intensive saturdays yoga workshops for the coming month, they are one after each other:
on 16 th and 23 th february:

starting at morning 10.30 till 13.00
*lunch pause*
in the afternoon 14.30 till 16.30

*we will start with meditation, followed by kryas and pranayama and we will continue the morning with flowing asana's.
*(at lunch people can eat at my place, I will provide some soup and vegetarian light lunch. Of course you are also free to go to the biological market
or any of the restaurant in the Jordan*)
*The afternoon will serve as deepening and clarifying of the morning class.
We will finish with a long guided relaxation- savasana-

cost : 45 € for the all day

These extended yoga classes are meant to be for experienced students of Yoga as well for Beginners, as well of any style of Yoga.
I really like the idea to have more time for a Meditation, a detailed Pranayama and well explained - shown Asana's.
This shall offer the students a good foundation for their Self Practice: based on natural curiosity, self confidence, joy of learning, trusting and allowing
Self development and Self Healing!

I am looking forward hearing from you!

with kind regards
Silvia

visit:
www.welcometojoya.com
Silvia Francesca Sferlazzo
Egelantiersgr.75 hs 1015 RE Amsterdam
+31206383397
+31621265370

Dreams don't die

2008-01-24T12:11:00.000-08:00

Dreams don't die. They linger in the quantum field. They're "us" — a part of our mental patterning — and, as such, they stay with us. We may grow away from our dreams, taking different paths. But the most potent of them — the ones that evoked the greatest emotional commitment and excited the greatest personal passion — are always with us, waiting to be actualized. I can now say from personal experience, that the key to manifesting them seems to be letting go enough personal control to give them a chance to actually get through the door.

Rainer Maria Rilke

2007-12-11T07:51:00.000-08:00

Perhaps everything terrible in us

is in its deepest being

something helpless needing our help.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The essence of all things is emptiness

2007-12-06T09:46:00.000-08:00

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

Learning is not...

2007-07-22T08:56:00.000-07:00

"Learning is not the accumalation of knowledge.
Learning is movement from moment to moment."
J.Krishnamurti

Thomas S.Eliot

2007-07-14T05:56:00.000-07:00

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always-
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

Enlightenment through Dance

2007-06-15T07:59:00.000-07:00

Shiva communicates the truth of life through dance. Dance is the symbol of life. It is impermanent, lasting as long as the dancer dances. It flows through space and time, unfettered by any dimension or moment. The wheel around the dancing Shiva is the merry-go-round of wordly events. The ego is swept away by the wheel. Shiva crushes the ego and dances on its back, offering an alternative. He balances himself on his right foot, indicative of the still Purusha, and swings his left leg, indicative of the ever-changing Prakriti. His right hand comforts his devotees while his left hand points to the interaction of the left and right feet.
The fire he holds in one hand is tapa, ignited by refusing to submit to wordly stimuli. The rattle-drum in the other is created with the downward-pointing triangle of matter separeted from upward-pointing triangle of the spirit.

Taken by the book:
Myth=Mithya
A handbook of Hindu Mythology
written by Dr Devdutt Pattanaik
www.penguinbooksindia.com

....constructed over generations, Hindu myths serve as window to the soul, and provide an understanding of the world around us. The aim is not to outgrow myth, but to be enriched and empowered by its ancient potent and still relevant language...

liberation

2007-04-25T06:32:00.000-07:00

let your mind become like the ocean, you can see the beginning but you see no end...