for those of you who don’t know me…

I’m a yogi and have been practicing about two years. I have had a few fleeting times on my yoga mat where I seem to enter a different place of consciousness. I’m not sure how it happens. One time in particular, while doing a flow sequence of Sun Salutations (Surya Namaskara A/B), I seemed to enter a state where I was witnessing a conversation taking place between my mind and body. I did not hear words or anything, but I sensed the conversation taking place. I was in a moving meditation - just watching it happen. It was pure peace. That’s when I knew “I” wasn’t my mind or my body; that, along with yoga, sent me on a quest in search of the real me. I was the “witnessing presence,” as Eckhart Tolle describes in his Power of Now. This sounds so unreal and illogical to some, especially to church members. They just can’t understand it. It’s like they can only relate to one type of spirituality – the kind they get in church mostly. This type of experience is completely out of their realm of awareness.

I don’t discuss experiences like this very often, but I’m longing to do so with people whom I think can understand it or have had similar experiences. I’m hoping that people on this blog can relate to what I’m saying. I’ve been searching for a place where I can discuss events of this type with others who are or have been Mormon. Being Mormon and then having experiences like I just related turn your world upside down. TBMs don’t understand it, but neither to NOMs or PostMo’s. It is b/c it usually takes yoga or some form of meditation to get to this place. Does anyone relate to what I’m saying?

I don’t have these experiences as often as I’d like. I’m working on that. However, when it does happen, it recharges my batteries so to speak, in a way that nothing else ever could. This experience I just discussed also seems to resonate with an eastern view of spirituality rather than a western view (i.e., awakening). The two views aren’t completely incompatible, but they aren’t the same either. Having been on both sides, I like the eastern view better.

I welcome any thoughts you may have.

Yogaman.
Namaste!