Yoga for Integration

Lecture about Re-Integration after the retreat
-How much can you remain open and bring back to loved ones, workplace, and life
-Opening and contracting of nervous system and efficiency
-The ability to handle the "grind" is directly related to the ability to handle good in your life
-You can have what you want, can your nervous system handle it?

Homework - Self Psychology:
-Stretch the container to hold more pleasure and power
-Write a paper.
-4 parts to assignment, refer to p. 45 in Immense Grace manual. Discussion of "pratyahara"
-Cross-hearted Kirtan Kriya
-3 minutes of Fists of Anger
-3 minutes of Addiction meditation
-Listen to recording of voice memo exercise
-Self-Blessing
-Review Self-Healing Lecture
-Always include a little yoga - 15 minutes or so

Closing practice of Sequoia Retreat with 11-minute active blessing meditation. "To bless is a noble act...and don't forget. Bless yourself." - Yogi Bhajan

Introduction and Welcome to Immense Grace. The theme of the first month is "Ancestral Future" as we dive deeply into the unbelievably powerful technologies of self psychology given by Yogi Bhajan for women. Women are the highest incarnation, which comes with great responsibility. This first retreat will be a weekend of self-psychology - cleansing old values, aligning with service, clearing anger and fear in regard to familial and romantic relationships. (*This retreat was held the weekend of Sept. 10-13 2015 in Badger, CA at the edge of the Sequoia National Forest during a somewhat significant fire season.)

Yogi Bhajan poem - "Call of the Woman"; "The angels, the divines, the sages, the saints exist; they exist because of the the prayer of the woman; The prayer of the woman is the most powerful act on the planet; When a woman complains she immediately loses her intuitive power, which is the sum total of her power; Intuition is the commodity of the Aquarian Age

Four ways to get inside an energy field:
1. Come together in a group and get inside - this retreat is designed to burn off a lot of internal wastage
2. Practice - Sometimes even three minutes of laser beam intentional practice are more effective than a longer sadhana
3. Have an experience of it - Embody the teachings and have devotion; Have an authentic relationship with the teachings, hold the space; Teachers are not preachers
4. Dharma Study - Approach teachings as an Aquarian student; Whoever we are serving, it is part of our jobs as leaders to determine how best to deliver a message

One hour yoga set with gong relaxation and meditation to call upon the Divine Mother with mantra Rakhe Rakhanhar (31 minutes)