EFFORTLESS ACTION: BODYMEDITATION AND KRISHNAMURTI

EFFORTLESS ACTION:  BODYMEDITATION AND KRISHNAMURTI

An online yoga retreat with Oda Lindner

3 Zoom meetings:  Sept 25 – 27 (Fri-Sun: 4-6pm PT/7-9pm ET)

To do anything demands energy. Yet energy dissipates when, inherent in the expression of that energy, there is conflict. We can often observe that in our activities we create some kind of conflict. That conflict results from a sense of effort, of wanting something, or from resistance, a sense of denial or a need to defend.

All action that is based on an idea, a concept, a formula must inevitably breed conflict. That is obvious. If I act according to a formula, a pattern, a concept, then I am always divided between the fact of what I am, and what I think I should do about that fact; so there is never a complete action.
J.Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti’s observation holds true for the mind, but it is also applicable to the body. In this on-line workshop we will look at how subtle mental expectations, assumptions and habits create physical and mental resistance that tends to dissipate energy and impedes effortless action.

Through slow movement and mindful meditation, we will allow that conflict to emerge and will start to see that, by simply noticing the conflict, we can begin to free the trapped energy. This in turn may help us to find a more effortless way of being in the world.

Friday 4 – 6 PM: 

– Effortful action: when thought creates conflict in the expression of our energy

– Simple movements that betray goal-oriented formulae, concepts and patterns

Saturday 4 – 6 PM: 

– Being what we are: Ways to act, sit and move

– The “shoulds and should-nots” of life: Patterns that direct our ways of being

–  Noticing the difference between free-flowing action and patterned action. 

Sunday 4 – 6 PM:

– “Simply seeing”: Transcending the division.

– Complete action

Oda Lindner is a registered yoga therapist and instructor who trained with Desikachar, who was also Krishnamurti’s yoga teacher. She is an experienced workshop leader who is passionate about the potential for yoga to create greater awareness in daily living. She lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Registration fee:   $60 CAD