Yogis, I prepared the following contemplation based in the Yoga Sutras for the Aquarian Age. I hope you find it helpful. Find some time to be pensive this week or on New Year’s Eve and make a plan for 2016. Yogis live in the moment with one foot poised in the future. You can go deep in 2016 with The Elemental Cleanse or Our 2016/17 Yoga Teacher Training.
Download the following exercise for easy printing here:
1. Do this one first to figure out where you have been all year:
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or download pdf…month by month recap 2015
2. Do this one 2nd to contemplate
5 sutras for the aquarian age worksheet
Sutra 1: There is a way through every block.
- What blocks did you experience in 2015?
- Did you suffer from a habit, belief, or thought that held you back?
- In hindsight, what could you have done different? Are you still suffering from that block?
Write down 3 actions steps to bust through blocks in 2016.
Sutra 2: Understand through compassion or you will misunderstand the times.
- Can you look back at the year 2015 and express compassion for yourself?
- Were there any moments when someone was compassionate to you and it deeply moved you?
- Reading through the list of current events, spend a moment to send light and love the victims of tragedy.
- Do you have words of advice for them or can you help them understand how their death has shifted the consciousness of the planet?
- Reading through the list of current events, spend a moment to send light and love to the perpetrators of tragedy.
- Can you offer them compassion?
Sutra 3: When the time is on you, start, and the pressure will be off.
- What did you start in 2015 that you finished?
- What did you start and need to finish?
- What do you desire to start?
Write down 3 action steps to begin tomorrow.
Sutra 4: Vibrate the Cosmos and the Cosmos shall clear the path.
- Looking through the months, when were struggling the most?
- When were you relaxing into your moments?
- What was the best month and why?
- What was the most fun and why?
- Is there a pattern? Did chaos in your mind contribute to chaos in your life? Did peace contribute to peace? Write down examples.
Sutra 4: Recognize the other person is you.
- Who challenged you the most this year?
- What relationship was the most trouble for you or the most pleasure. Why?
- What is the lesson in this relationship for you?
Sutra 5: Habits to allow you to Vibrate with the Cosmos:
- Meditation
- Yoga
- Right Choice Making for thoughts, emotions, food, drink, movement and rest
- Good schedule of going to bed and getting up on time.
- Doing what you love for a living.
Make a plan for 2016. How will you Vibrate with the Cosmos?
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