NamaBonsai Reconnection Mode

Hello,

Its been a minute since we have been able to get online and blog. Since things happen fast and karma, timing and purpose are all factors, today is blog catch up day….

 

Since arriving in the west coast north west, we have been meeting up to ten to fifteen people a day, we have been looking at about five to ten places a day. Everyone we have met has been amazing, many share yoga, music, tea, and practice.

I am going to attempt to unfold some of what we have in brought into view by using the comment section to expand this blog entry, organizing and positioning important information.

Because there is so much to say and share, it helps to use the comment sections, breaking things down one aspect at a time…..

If you have shared yoga, music, tea and your energy these past few weeks, we are truly grateful and happy to keep the energy alive!

 

Bless

NamaBonsai

NamaRadio Online Starting Up…

Head Roc

Also look for tracks off the Truth-Key in Artistry Commentary, Rough Jazz by DJ ESP, OMID, JMD and friends….

You can find the NamaMusic BlogRadio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Namaradio

Make sure to contact the label to guest on future shows or to call in and talk about topics, tracks and movements!

Fiber art seen here is used for album covers by Namasteezy Records

Namasteezy Spirit Takes New Form In Kev Artistry

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Hello from Kev, a new NMSTZY Artist…..
Current mood: awake
Category: Blogging

I am an uplifting artist-musician from the east coast. I am wanting to connect with people throughout the land who are interested in healing our relationship to the planet. My music is an expression of the living consciousness of transition toward community and sustainability.

I have caught on to the Nmstzy effort and would like to contribute to this important network in hopes of bridging the gaps and cross pollinating ideas between artists confronting the difficult truths of our times. I want to Share a little about the art and skills I am doing and increase awareness of the Nmstzy Spirit to friends and supporting artistry…..

I am posting here on this blog and the others attempting to help weave together some meaningful conversations.

I have some links to add, some artistry to share, some events and workshops to invite you to, and some energy to give to the label side of NMSTZY Spirit & Yoga Studio Projects.

I am still listening to all the Nmstzy projects, getting to know the artists and projects, inspiration! I have been introduced to the Key and to the Puba remix PJ. Also to the Jazz stuff by JMD, Omid and Cosiner.

We even got into some Australian stuff by Paul at CrookNeck/DefWish…. And some Duo Live…

We have been rolling through the west coast, doing yoga and playing music. I will share a little about that as we get into the Nmstzy Platforms tonight and many happenings to come.

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What we did, done, do and make happen

Namaste,

The Namatribe has left the north west… Went to the dirty south and moved minds, rumbled with

non-profit orgs and yoga studios……. We rocked an art show and manifested some meditation silks

before returning to the west coast. Before returning though, we stopped through the midwest, where

we identified problem areas which are the heart of apathy. Ohio has issues….. No breakbeats played

on the radio statewide? NO radio station on the largest university campus in the state? Wasn’t ohio

the “freestate” where the underground railrode ended in the fight the south for black freedom days?

No radio but the king of porn Larry Flint can run things from a huge mansion across from a private all

girls school (back when he started out)? Wild that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama won in that state…. Maybe all the harshed and silenced energies built up and made a power move! Power to the people!

Now that we are back on the west coast…. We are happening fully and truly, restoring our health and

reorganizing our studio.

We still have the spinning wheel with us and are starting the next round of threads for our new Anti-

war weaving called “Moments of Nanak”……

Will be back on the blog soon, to add more.

Until then, keep that mind upside down!

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Yoga Practice at Home

Keep it alive…. Stay Fresh and fun by communicating with your Yogi and Yogini friends, teachers and companions. Its about about interaction, communication and recognizing the fact that people have created work for themselves to be available to you at great sacrifice and its on you to complete the circle of practice. People like Drea and Masso love to hear from you….Be true to your Nonself, and join us in practice alone AND together. When alone, know we are still with you. Namasteezy Spirit is always with you. The magazines tell people to radically change your relationship with the clock, so lets do this. Thats the up and up side. The fluff is when Magazines tell you the same crap over and over and have been for years, “Pose benefits strengthen legs, stretch groins and improve balance”. Well thats a lie if you are not keeping your practice up. And do you need to always be talked to like that? Look at the world around us, and lets do some advanced yoga – to Strengthen Bodhicitta, learn about Meher Baba, Kabir or other ancient Masters of Bakti Yoga (devotional) or even some Zen. Yoga is about union and should express the truth about interdependent origination. So what does community provide us for healing…. We found one yogini not too consciously into the Involution and Bodhicitta but she has an open heart and a kind mind. Lets honor her for her Bodhicitta and Devotional effort by sharing some yoga feedback with her and learning from her pictures. Although people may not be into consciously something, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen through them. And that goes for yoga, art and music and your practice too! Even if you are new to it or are afraid to start, it doesn’t mean you don’t do it or that it is not within you. Here are a few photos to get you going on some questions or to inspire you to explore a sequence or even just a position. Later on maybe break out a video or ask us for one…. Start to talking to friends you would like to practice with, lets get some energy moving. You may not be ready for all the moves in the photos, but slowly they will happen with more and more ease. We at Namasteezy are currently doing these positions as prayer. Join us in some prayer and meditate on the purposes and positions with us. You can find more about our experience of doing positions like Sara, her positions and/or practices related to those moves by sharing with us on the boards, by leaving comments on the blogs or by emailing us. But truly, lets look deep into yoga and the purposes and moves, and get yoga working for us and future generations of children.

Here is Saras homepage, you can feel out her vibe directly by going to her homepage: http://www.sarawhitney.net/yoga/balancing.html Sarah does the moves with grace, and we can take them one step further by turning them into prayer with will power. Lets meet on the middle path, supporting our brother and sisters, create a foundation for healing, and have something healthy to grab onto. A community that cares and shares and communicates. Explore the blogs and homepages, then visit our boards where we are exploring the subtle aspects of yoga positions and how they make us feel. It takes time to get yoga, or to become it, and so a message board should truly be helpful. Our Red Tantra Yoga Board is happening, and we are also usingso the activism board to keep this bridging going, and to respect many different perspectives and practices.

Nutrition, Craft & Yoga Board: http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=22662

Activism Board: http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=943&mforum=protectlife

Shiva Rea Shakti DVD Yoga Practice review

Review by Drea

This DVD has a variety of preset classes to choose from: Basic, Solar Flow, Solar Flow II, and Lunar Flow. The Basic class is a nice class to get acquainted with Shiva Rea’s style, or for beginners. I have actually never tried this one yet, but have watched it. It looks fun and wiggly! Solar Flow is a more intensive class incorporating backbends and a few arm balances. This is a really fun class and a little more intensive on the warriors and legs then the next class, Solar Flow II. Solar Flow II is in theory the most advanced class, but I switch between the two depending on my mood. Flow II has less emphasis on legs and more emphasis on backbends. She shows a variety of arm balances. Shiva Rea has an Ashtanga background, and the practice is predominately poses threaded together with Salutations. If one is not used to this practice, it can be quite draining on the shoulders, arms, and wrists. I feel sometimes, it can be a bit boring and straining on my shoulders. I have a very strong practice myself, but sometimes repetitive chatarangas just becomes too jolting to the joints. Shiva Rea has a great “set”, beautiful Indian beach, and wonderful music. One complaint, she has very little to say besides “Inhale, Exhale”. She says a few insightful comments, but for the most part doesn’t describe the postures fully nor the purpose of them. I appreciate her worshipful devout practice. It is inspiring. I recommend the video to anyone, specifically vinyasa fanatics.

But just when you feel like exhaling and putting the video down, don’t do it before you discover the Lunar Sequences. The lunar vibe is really when the vibe takes off, maybe her vibe,maybe her style of teaching, or maybe its a nice way to down tempo from other styles of yoga or just a hard week.

The music on the video is very traditional, very spiritual and was a nice choice. I after hearing it I went looking for music on Shivas website but ended up in London where she seems to have some alliances in a crowd that is far from the vibe of the traditional music one hears on the video. Because she started doing yoga at fourteen, she got in early enough to know and enjoy spiritual music. However I am not talking about the trance dance techno stuff she is into.

But she stays clear of that techno in the lunar flows and so it is inspiring to do yoga to her video a few times, maybe on a rainy day. But then its off to the park where the air really flows, outside, yes…. In nature but without the plastic studio blocks. Why do people always take those with them on their yoga videos? Rocks and trees keep it real. But like I say, do the lunar flow and ask your nonself how it feels.

From basic to harder to next level, Shiva gives you two dvd’s for the long session in you, plus she is down with sounds true – so she must be one with the energetic rhythmic movement which happens through her.

Can Humanity Evolve, Survive WIthout Acknowledging It’s Unconscioius Existence?

Can we recognize the root causes of our behaviors, the dangerous ones, the ones that threaten our survival as being unconsciously driven? Can we see how such behavior of JEFF who cannot perform cognitively when trying to support what he thinks is a credible explanation for 2 of the worlds strongest towers going to the ground almost identically at a rate near free fall?

Do we recognize that our memory is basically an attribute of the unconscious mind? And that each day our unconscious reprograms our puny conscious mind with what the conscious thinks life is about? Including what it has available to it for memory held in the unconscious.

If we can recognize these things can we accept that the reason we do not use our recognition of them in a way consistent with the meaning of them to take meaningful action, is, in itself, the acting out of an unconscious mandate? If we can accept that can we work against that unconscious mandate to engage actions that are logical with respect to the comprehensiveness of this message and do so immediately without evasion and cooperate with others who also observe and respect the comprehensive aspects of this message? Can we logically discern what the appropriate action is?

It seems that a student can, but take a look at what happens when such action is done…..
We posted his video over at the tribe blog, toward the bottom of the entry.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS VIDEO? THANKS TO OUR MUSIC EFFORTS, PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO SPREAD IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT HAPPENINGS MORE CONSCIOUSLY, SO THAT THE YOGA PEOPLE CAN KNOW WHAT AND WHO TO PRAY FOR.

So far, at this time of posting this, the young truth seeker has – Views: 11,994

One person wrote, “You are doing alot more than most people in this nation! MASS KUDDOS to you ! Keep rocken the truth, and never give up! Its the youth like YOU, that will save this country from the tyrony “

Organizing Principles

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THE “MOMENTS OF HAFIZ” POETRY VIA UNITY & BOOK GROUPS

Having a moment of HAFIZ is when you know that the Hafiz has happened through you and the poetry or art you did leaves you saying, “it was not I”…. Those of us who share the truth about how life lives us enjoy seeing when the great work happens through “so called others”… So we enjoy sharing missing knowledge and have started working on creating more communication between people by sharing books. What ever you do or say in this world an attraction and aversion sets in among the people aorund us, so we have decided that our way of sharing unity and poetry needs to have two styles at once! Something for everyone who is here to create change in the right direction.

We can dance both ways, in a formal conventional way and in a loose beatnik or beatnut way. We share missing knowledge with many types of people and sources of wisdom…..

We have been bridging and sharing with a book group out of PDX, Oregan and also with the “Voice Yourself” team- the woody action mob. The PDX team has a book tracking system so we can follow books as they are passed from person to person. And if that isn’t for you we even have more sharing happening with underground poets on the go, in the most intuitive ways – those according to subculture methods and music.

We asked each other, “if you were stranded on a desert island, what are the top 5 books or publications you would want to have with you? Get to know what Namasteezy and friends have collected so far….

Please send us your recommendations so we can stock our library with your favorites too… They can be environmental, political, or spiritual works or just what you think is fun:

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What are you reading? And what’s good? Check out the Bonsai Yoga Studio Library:
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Is it easy to act like you are conscious & in action for truth?

I recently got an email about a yoga studio saving paper bags.

They wrote, “It feels good to be green!

CorePower Yoga is proud to announce a new program implementing plastic bag recycling
in locker rooms at all of our studios. Our intention with this project is to reduce
our impact on the environment by supplying our yogis with recycled plastic grocery
bags to transport sweaty yoga clothes. All locker rooms will be outfitted with a
plastic bag dispenser that makes it easy to insert your extra bags from home. Please
keep this in mind if you have a supply of excess grocery bags, and thanks for participating!”

It that the most we can do as people to unify and support truth movements? Does it come down to just a little fancy business talk about so called conscious efforts and presentation of being in action? I mean is that as far as people can go to see the truth about what is happening on this planet and the most they will do toward real solutions as orgs and businesses? Is it just us as Namasteezy spirit or are these little step really just lies and public relations by businessness which have no intent on real solutions?

Why do we not see any real and pivitol moves by these people and their small businesses and studios and labels? They do not seem to spread around any real news and information which is the utmost concern of the people regarding events and issues that need action and attention right away! They so often take these arts and ways of happenings and cultures and practices and try to exploit them as businesses and people after money……

I think the core studio is in process and i would love to do yoga with their instructors…. But can anyone guide or suggest a way to reach the people of power who are determining factors? Maybe these people are unaware of Bodhicitta. Maybe if more studios would recognize real spiritual leaders and people and give more back… Host more events concerned about bridging and share more often while feeding people – maybe if they took more care to realy give the people what we seek (healing, unity, community)…. Maybe then their calls for action would have amore sincere feel.

Maybe studios could share message boards with festival organizers in ways that really support the artists and the needs of the people.

Many people will reject these ideas and views…

Many people pracgtice self grasping yoga and body mind yoga…. Maybe the core people are in an effort to bridge with the Yoga House of Bellevue to present and honor other yogis, or maybe they are planning on donating laptops to monks and volunteers who do not need to be in non-profit orgs to give selfless service….

Sometimes business owners just need to give out of the pocket and bite one sometimes…..

If Core yoga really wants to deal with environmental issues and the plastic issues.. Maybe they can show the documentary by the female activists selling that Texas Gold Water. Have you heard about the Yogi in Texas who holds protests in Ny Ny? She has been creating awareness about the chemical companies in Texas for years…

Maybe we can all just get down to the core of the real issues, unify practices and share meaningful updates on real time happenings regarding things that will really help, things that people are doing…..

Misinformation has a grip on the yoga movement. More people
need to seek actual explanations for events like the 911 towers free falling rather than
information (Yoga studio people for the most part think they have it
already)…….

I save plastic bags at home too…. But we at Namasteezy think that is just a small way of taking on a huge truth process. Don’t stop there, join us in a sincere journey of self and other revelations. Help tibetan monks, unify people of practice, and support the 911 truth movement by working interdependently.

If all we can do is ask people to save plastic bags, we have a long way to go before we get a truth process going which will really serve us as people.

Yoga has been turned into a panacea. But is it really working? Or is it starting to work against us?