Yoga & More at Easter
Easter Sunday 20 April 2025 | 10 am Bombeiros | Santo António das Areias
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Yoga & More at Easter
Easter Sunday 20 April 2025 | 10 am
Bombeiros | Santo António das Areias
Dear ones,
What a wonderful prospect that we are with enough friends to experience a beautiful class together this Sunday.
This day the resurrection of Christ is celebrated in Christian churches. This is a joyous celebration because such a resurrection does not happen every day.
For readers who are not religious, Easter has no meaning except that it is a celebration of spring. Spring is also a form of resurrection.
And when I think further about rising again, I certainly believe that you and I rise from the little death, as sleep is also called, every day. After all, when you sleep you don't know you are alive. In fact, every morning is a pleasant surprise.
In all cases, the spirit returns. There is no tree, plant, bush or flower that can live without spirit. Life equals spirit. Everything is spirit. We register with our five senses, which means we are very limited in perceiving and therefore use our intellect to explain things. Spirit cannot be explained scientifically, so it is dismissed as nonsense. The origin of life as we know it cannot be explained either, although there are some theories circulating.
Fortunately, we have Rudolf Steiner who laid down the spiritual science for us (anthroposophy). His work will become more important by the day with the exponential growth of artificial intelligence if we at least cherish the desire to remain or become a complete human being.
Mind and consciousness are closely related. Without paying attention to what you are doing now, you are not aware of anything and your mind cannot work one hundred per cent in you (you are kept alive though).
You exist only when you can - yes I mean NOW, in this moment - feel and experience your body, distance yourself from all that is thought in your mind and so slowly with daily training can become the leader of your thinking. Only then will you become a complete human being. A flesh-and-blood human being who is filled with spirit.
Easter Sunday, besides preparatory yoga postures, I have a meditation for you that will awaken the Spirit in you.
Until Sunday or another time. Happy Easter!
Love, Liesbeth