Monday, September 13, 2010

Meeting With Masters

The family and I just returned from a four day retreat with the great yogi Richard Freeman. I am always humbled by Richards ability to convey such esoteric philosophical systems such as Vedanta in a practical and humorous way.

It occurred to my over the weekend that in the last 2 weeks, we have been able to spend a little time with some of the real heavy weights in modern yoga. This trip to see Sri Richard along with our recent travel to Encinitas where we sat at the feet of Sri Tim Miller and members of the Jois family as well as many other notable yogis has left us rich in experience.

Although my son will not remember his meeting with Sri K Pattabhi Jois two years ago, I will be a proud yogi dad to remind him of that blessed encounter. In fact, the odds are that my kids will have little interest in yoga seeing that we always tend to push away from the path of the parents....

Oh well, at least I can share with them this little video that we were in at the opening of Jois Yoga in Encinitas.