Deep Truths, Simple ActionsLiving Yoga in the 21st Century
Where our talents and the needs of the world cross: here is our calling
Richard MillerFounder & Chairman iRest Institute, PhD, C-IAYT, ERYT 500
ONLY THROUGH YOGA IS YOGA KNOWN
From the commentary by Vyasa verse III.6
yogena yogo jõâtavyo
yogo yogât pravartate
yo ‘pramattastu yogena /
sa yoge ramate ciram //
Only through yoga is yoga known.
Only by yoga does yoga go forward.
Whoever is fully taken by yoga,
Will enjoy the fruits of yoga forever.
Keeping Yoga in Yoga,Yoga Therapy and the Yoga Therapist Moving a Yoga-Based Program ForwardWholeness
Patañjali 1.2Yogaḥ citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ
Nirodhaḥ = To stillYoga is when the fluctuations of the mind are stilled
Nirodhaḥ = StillnessYoga is when we knowingly know ourselves as unchanging Stillness that is present, whether the fluctuations of the mind are stilled or are present
Yoga: Experiencing our non-separate wholeness (Turiya)
Nidra - Amidst all changing states and conditions
WakingJagrat
SleepingNidra
DreamlessSuśupti
DreamingSwapna
Wholeness
Wherever we see other, as separate from our Wholeness, we will experience anxiety and fear.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
WholenessThe underlying, innate, ever-present and unchanging Essence that enables
us to face, overcome and be transformed by the adversities of life
It enables us to not just survive, but to thrive with:Enables us to not just survive, but to thrive in our life with
● Compassion● Kindness● Love● Empathy● Joy
● Value● Meaning● Purpose● Security● Confidence
● Peace● Ease● Equanimity● Resilience● Well-being
Our family, cultural, and personalexperiences can diminish our ability to experience Wholeness
Our habitual patterns can become like neural cement, rigid and unable to adapt to changing circumstances
The challenging news...
Wholeness
We are hardwired for Wholeness
The good news...
Wholeness
We just need to know how to harness and engage these capabilities amidst our daily life
Experiencing Wholeness
1. Left hand2. Right hand3. Both hands
Sensing Opposites
1. Front2. Behind3. Left4. Right5. Below6. Above7. Inside8. Outside9. Everywhere
Attention Everywhere
Experiencing Wholeness
1. Where am I?
2. When am I?
3. How am I?
4. What am I?
5. Who am I?
The Felt Sense of Being
Spacious
Timeless
Perfect
Connected
Complete
Without border or boundary vs Contracted and limited
Beyond time & thought vs. Limited by time
Perfect and whole vs. Lacking and flawed
Connected vs. Confused and disconnected
Complete and whole vs. Incomplete
Experiencing Wholeness
Moving a Yoga-Based Program Forward• Mission Driven• Intention• Secular• Foster Teachings• Organization• Branded• Structured
• Focused• Research• Economic Viability• Mothership• Legacy• Interconnected• Community
✓ Mission DrivenHeartfelt DesireDharma-Ṛta: Actions In harmony withthe totality of the universe
Innate meaning, purpose, valueMarching orders
‘Thy’ versus ‘My’ willUniversal and Personal
Sankalpa
✓ IntentionSankalpa: vow, intention, determination
Vows that support fulfilling our mission
Sankalpa
Connected with self, others and worldwith energy and stability for surfing
the challenges we face
Yoga to the ‘Choir’ and BeyondCulturally relevant
iRest - Yoga Nidra - Meditation
✓ Secular
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Grounded in Ancient TeachingsEver-evolving languaging
Informed, Not rigid
✓ Secular
The Path of Meditation
In the World
Reaching Source
Truth & Self Transcended
Truth Transcended
Beyond Conceptual and Non-Conceptual,
Beyond Self-Awareness
Welcome Essential Nature as Non-Separate, Self-
Aware Awareness
Welcome Essential Nature As Non-Separate
“I” and “This”
Welcome Essential Nature
as Subject-Object Duality
38. Gate, Gate, Paragate: Gone, Gone, Gone BeyondBeyond Conceptual and Non-Conceptual
Unborn, Unconditioned, Beyond Self-Awareness By and from “This” does everything arise
37. Mahatripura Sundar: Sahaj SamâdhiSelf-Aware Undifferentiated Awareness
Saharāra: Nondual Reality beyond time, space, emptiness, and form Non-Relational, Awareness, Consciousness, “This-ness,” “By This alone does all this appear”
Stabilized Self-Realization
35. Åakti: Dynamic Essential Nature not separate from 36. Śiva: Potential Essential NatureAll that is changing I Am principle that is unchanging Female Principle Male Principle Dynamic changing nature of Consciousness Static unchanging nature of Consciousness
Ecstasy & Delight Self-Revelation Stabilizing Self-Recognition
32.Åuddha Vidyā 33. Īśvara 34. Sadā ŚivaSubject & Object Distinct World as Object Appearing Self as Subject AppearingChanging Universe Blossoming Changing Universe Sprouting Changing Universe at RestPower of action Power of knowing Power of willing“This I am” “I am This, and This I am” “I am This”
Unstable Self-Realization Formless Emerging
Welcome 31. Māyā: Self-Remembering (25-38 & 38-1) versus Self-Forgetting (30-5)Form Emerging
Riding Truth Home
Knowing Truth
Remembering
Welcome Essential Nature
as BeingKañchukas
Power to remember or forget the difference between what is unchanging and what is changing Power to sever ‘This’ from ‘I’ and ‘I’ from ‘This’
Power to separate what is inseparable into separate changing parts The power to misperceive that something’s wrong (with me)
26. Niyati: Space 27. Kāla: Time 28. Râga: Desire 29. Vidyā: Knowledge 30. Kalā: DoerContracted Time Bound Imperfect Limited Knowing Limited Doing vs Omnipresent vs Timeless vs Perfect vs Omniscient vs Omnipotent
Welcome the Unchanging
Witness
25. Puruæa: Subjective Unchanging WitnessThe unchanging seer of all that is changing “Seer”
Catching Truth
Welcome All That Changes
24. Prakëti: Objective Changing World “Seen” What is born, grows, stabilizes, decays, and passes away
Perceiving Truth
Welcome Cognitions
21. Ego-I
Discovering Footprints
Searching For Truth
Welcome Emotions
Welcome the Senses
Welcome the Body
Welcome Foundational Resources
15. Secure 16. Potent 17. Empowered 18. Loving 19. Authentic 20. ClearMūlādhāra Svādhisthāna Manipura Anāhata Vishuddhā Ajõâ
10. Gandha 11. Rasa 12. Rûpa 13. Sparåa 14. ÅabdaNose, Smell, Odor Mouth, Taste, Flavor Eyes, Seeing, Color Skin, Touch, Feel Ears, Hear, Sound
5. Prithivî: Earth 6. Jāla: Water 7. Tejas: Fire 8. Vayu: Air 9. Âkaåa: SpaceSolid, Stable Liquid, Flowing Heat, Expanding Gas, Permeating Space, Penetrating
4. Affirm/Experience your Inner Resource of grounded safety, security, peace, well-being and Being3. Affirm/Experience your Intention(s) that support(s) realizing your Heartfelt Desire2. Affirm/Experience your deepest Heartfelt Intention that is arising directly from the Universal life force
1. Welcome/Experience the Life Force that has given birth to every atom, molecule, and cell in the body
©2018 Richard Miller, PhD: Integrative Restoration Institute: Path of Meditation: www.irest.us
Sam
khya
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aõja
li A
dvai
ta N
ondu
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Unq
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Non
dual
Rea
lizat
ion
Manas: Mind 22. Buddhi: Intellect 23. Ahamkara:Thoughts, Noting, Storing, Processing
AscertainingDecision-Making
AppropriatingSeparating
✓ Secular
➔
The Path of Meditation
In the World
Reaching Source
Truth & Self Transcended
Truth Transcended
Beyond Conceptual and Non-Conceptual,
Beyond Self-Awareness
Welcome Essential Nature as Non-Separate, Self-
Aware Awareness
Welcome Essential Nature As Non-Separate
“I” and “This”
Welcome Essential Nature
as Subject-Object Duality
38. Gate, Gate, Paragate: Gone, Gone, Gone BeyondBeyond Conceptual and Non-Conceptual
Unborn, Unconditioned, Beyond Self-Awareness By and from “This” does everything arise
37. Mahatripura Sundar: Sahaj SamâdhiSelf-Aware Undifferentiated Awareness
Saharāra: Nondual Reality beyond time, space, emptiness, and form Non-Relational, Awareness, Consciousness, “This-ness,” “By This alone does all this appear”
Stabilized Self-Realization
35. Åakti: Dynamic Essential Nature not separate from 36. Śiva: Potential Essential NatureAll that is changing I Am principle that is unchanging Female Principle Male Principle Dynamic changing nature of Consciousness Static unchanging nature of Consciousness
Ecstasy & Delight Self-Revelation Stabilizing Self-Recognition
32.Åuddha Vidyā 33. Īśvara 34. Sadā ŚivaSubject & Object Distinct World as Object Appearing Self as Subject AppearingChanging Universe Blossoming Changing Universe Sprouting Changing Universe at RestPower of action Power of knowing Power of willing“This I am” “I am This, and This I am” “I am This”
Unstable Self-Realization Formless Emerging
Welcome 31. Māyā: Self-Remembering (25-38 & 38-1) versus Self-Forgetting (30-5)Form Emerging
Riding Truth Home
Knowing Truth
Remembering
Welcome Essential Nature
as BeingKañchukas
Power to remember or forget the difference between what is unchanging and what is changing Power to sever ‘This’ from ‘I’ and ‘I’ from ‘This’
Power to separate what is inseparable into separate changing parts The power to misperceive that something’s wrong (with me)
26. Niyati: Space 27. Kāla: Time 28. Râga: Desire 29. Vidyā: Knowledge 30. Kalā: DoerContracted Time Bound Imperfect Limited Knowing Limited Doing vs Omnipresent vs Timeless vs Perfect vs Omniscient vs Omnipotent
Welcome the Unchanging
Witness
25. Puruæa: Subjective Unchanging WitnessThe unchanging seer of all that is changing “Seer”
Catching Truth
Welcome All That Changes
24. Prakëti: Objective Changing World “Seen” What is born, grows, stabilizes, decays, and passes away
Perceiving Truth
Welcome Cognitions
21. Ego-I
Discovering Footprints
Searching For Truth
Welcome Emotions
Welcome the Senses
Welcome the Body
Welcome Foundational Resources
15. Secure 16. Potent 17. Empowered 18. Loving 19. Authentic 20. ClearMūlādhāra Svādhisthāna Manipura Anāhata Vishuddhā Ajõâ
10. Gandha 11. Rasa 12. Rûpa 13. Sparåa 14. ÅabdaNose, Smell, Odor Mouth, Taste, Flavor Eyes, Seeing, Color Skin, Touch, Feel Ears, Hear, Sound
5. Prithivî: Earth 6. Jāla: Water 7. Tejas: Fire 8. Vayu: Air 9. Âkaåa: SpaceSolid, Stable Liquid, Flowing Heat, Expanding Gas, Permeating Space, Penetrating
4. Affirm/Experience your Inner Resource of grounded safety, security, peace, well-being and Being3. Affirm/Experience your Intention(s) that support(s) realizing your Heartfelt Desire2. Affirm/Experience your deepest Heartfelt Intention that is arising directly from the Universal life force
1. Welcome/Experience the Life Force that has given birth to every atom, molecule, and cell in the body
©2018 Richard Miller, PhD: Integrative Restoration Institute: Path of Meditation: www.irest.us
Sam
khya
-Pat
aõja
li A
dvai
ta N
ondu
alis
m
Unq
ualif
ied
Non
dual
Rea
lizat
ion
Manas: Mind 22. Buddhi: Intellect 23. Ahamkara:Thoughts, Noting, Storing, Processing
AscertainingDecision-Making
AppropriatingSeparating
✓ Secular
➔
✓ Secular
TeachingsTeachersStudents
✓ Foster Teachings
Entrepreneurial ‘N’ of one…
To family oriented…
To business-oriented
✓ Organization
Registered…
iRest®Logos…
✓ Branded
✓ Structured● Manualized
● Replicable
● Evidence-based
● Teacher certified
● Assessment-driven
● Worldwide teacher network
● Secular and easy to follow protocol
● Accessible to all populations and ages
✓ Focused
Understand changing needs
While keeping Yoga in our Yoga
Students are not their issues
Students are Wholeness incarnate
PTSD, Anxiety, DepressionWalter Reed, Miami VA, Washington DC VA, Long Beach VA, IONS, JFK University, Pennsylvania VA, CIIS, Palo Alto VA, IONS
PainMiami VA, Washington DCVA, Brigham Young U, IONS
TBIWashington DC VA, John Hopkins University
Resilience in Military CouplesBrooke Army Medical Center
Domestic ViolenceUniversity of Missouri-Columbia
SleepBrooke Army Medical Center, Sutter Health, Brigham Young University, Columbia University, IONS
Wellness, QoL, Cancer, MSNew Jersey VA, Pennsylvania VA, Boise State University, University of Missouri, COTS, IONS
EldersInstitute of Noetic Sciences
Compassion FatigueBrooke Army Medical Center
Chemical DependencyAdelphi University
✓ Research
✓ Economic Viability
People want your offering
Yoga
✓ Economic Viability
They need to know you exist
✓ Mothership
Maintain integrity ofTeachings, Teachers, Trainings
✓ Legacy
Pass the Torch
✓ Interconnected Community
Keeping Yoga in Yoga, in Yoga Therapy andthe Yoga Therapist
MembershipTeacher Community Network
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@iRestMeditation
@iRestYogaNidra
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