Self-Study: Connecting with Universal Oneness (5/28/26)
Allison MillerMay 28 2026 • Duration: 57 Minutes
In this class we look more at our relationship with external stressors, and input - versus our internal state.
**Note: my audio cuts out from 2 minutes - 5 minutes (my ear buds weren't working-sorry!!).
Utilizing the following ideas we explore our relationship with out inner selves.
"When the energy simply flows through us, just as it flows through the grass and the trees and the ravens and the bears and the moose and the ocean and the rocks, we discover that we are not solid at all. If we sit still like the mountain Gampo Lhatse in a hurricane, if we don't protect ourselves from the trueness and the vividness and the immediacy and the lack of confirmation of simply being part of life, then we are not this separate being who has to have things turn out our way."
---Pema Chodron
The asana's are interoceptive in nature, with a focus on strengthening and stretching the shoulders. We explore the movement of the shoulders in poses like cat/cow, low plank, and down dog. A well balanced mix of asanas that could be performed anytime of day.
We close with a meditation on the universal oneness, on our individual inner self that is in fact connected to all the blades of grass and trees and moose and bear - and the universal expression of love that exists in that oneness.
Similar to the idea that a sculptor strips stone away to reveal the beautiful sculpture - the sculptor never adds anything - only chips away all that is not the final piece of art - - we can reveal our true nature by chipping away all that is not us to reveal the beauty within.