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February 20, 2007

INTRODUCING THE BODY: REBELLION MADE MATERIAL MADE SAINTLY

by Baraka B @ 10:52 am. Filed under Anarchism, Yoga Rebel

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It’s been about a year now since I began studying and practicing kundalini yoga as taught by the Siri Singh Sahib, otherwise known as Yogi Bhajan.

As far as I’m concerned, this society has taken every effort to separate the human from it’s body, while simultaneously conditioning this same human to obssess over the representation of the body (AKA I hate my body and yet am addicted to its appearance). So for me, any method that brings the consciousness back into the body, interweaving the two, is a method I am interested in.

There are any number of methods that accomplish this. Sport, martial arts, etc. Yoga is an obvious one, but one whose very name sends latte-induced shivers down the backs of otherwise strong people. I leave it up to you to be discerning and separate out the minerals. Lambasting yoga for being materialistic cause it’s in the West is fun and all, but asumes that it wasn’t materialistic in the East. (Head check: look at any spiritual tome from ancient India and you’ll find any number of warnings against false gurus, so….)

Here’s it is. I’m going to be putting up some posts regarding what I have find out through direct experience and experimenting with my body. “What does it feel like to do this?” As the SSS has said, this new age will be the age of experience, where previously we were in the age of knowledge.I will write as much as I can on that in a few. Think: knowing about, versus, embodying the knowledge of.

I will also try and touch upon these fun topics:

How a cold shower in the morning will change your life (AKA heating your body from the inside-out)
Anarchism as the lens through which to view the world, not as a society of the like-minded

How when we see our religious garb (AKA costumes) as just that: costumes, we can finally wear them for the first time

Kundalini yoga as “working class yoga” (sayeth Sat Hari Singh)

Experimentation with body as radical rebellion

Osho’s take on religious dogma as the bandage for a weak and scared audience. GOD IS UNCERTAINTY!

2 Responses to “INTRODUCING THE BODY: REBELLION MADE MATERIAL MADE SAINTLY”

  1. Hakim Baker Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 6:24 am

    Looking forward to it. All of it.

  2. DA Says:
    February 23rd, 2007 at 3:18 am

    What Hakim said.

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