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As I was getting ready for the Anusara Yoga Teacher Training in Morocco, a very especial\u00a0course for me for multiple reasons, I invoke the energy of one of my most close and loved archetypes: the Goddess\u00a0Saraswati<\/em>, the power, among many other things, of language and communication; also the sacred energy of mantra. And just in these days that Saraswati puja was celebrated, and connected with my 2017 theme\u00a0Transmutation<\/em>, I feel like writing about creativity, about inspiration, about art and about all the ways that human beings we use to creatively express to transform our experience.<\/p>\n Saraswati<\/em>\u00a0is the Goddess of language, of artistic expression; the Goddess of both teachers and students; the Goddess of refinement. Through all my years as a yogini I have had a very close relationship with her. In fact, this relationship has been there through all my life, since I have been always a nerd, but in my pre-yoga life I did not know that we passionate and eternal students were channeling the energy of this beautiful hindu deity. Things of the destiny, that in spite of Kali<\/em>, Durga<\/em> or\u00a0Laksmi<\/em>\u00a0that kept me really busy, she is the one that has the most privileged place in my puja. Between 2003 and 2004 I spent nearly a whole year in India. I really wanted to find a\u00a0murti<\/em> (a physical representation of a deity usually made of\u00a0metal, stone\u00a0or wood). I wanted it to be big, exquisite and preferible of Shiva Nataraja<\/em>. Shiva<\/em>\u00a0in the form the\u00a0Lord of the Dance\u00a0de la Danza <\/em>is another very significant archetypal energy in my spiritual life through different linages. Furthermore, one of my visits to his temple in\u00a0Chidambaran<\/em>, dedicated to the space element or\u00a0akasha<\/em>\u00a0and with such a suggestive name as\u00a0“Clothed in Consciousness”<\/em>\u00a0 literally saved my life (here there is another full story that I would write some other day but for now I will go back to the murti<\/em>). It was there where I found the Nataraja<\/em>\u00a0of my dreams but for some strange reason, of those that only have a place in India, it was not possible to send it to Spain from there. I never got to know exactly.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”off” custom_width_px=”1080px” custom_width_percent=”80%” use_custom_gutter=”off” gutter_width=”3″ padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” make_equal=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”on” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”on” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”on” parallax_4=”off” parallax_method_4=”on” disabled=”off”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”http:\/\/www.rasalilayoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_8680-2.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1px” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off” border_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n I travelled through India for\u00a0months and\u00a0only the last month, in the city of Pushkar in\u00a0Rajhastan, I found a shop that looked like a trasure cave, filled with precious sculptures, loaded with energy. There it was the most beautiful and harmonious\u00a0Nataraja I had ever seen. I reserved it right away and I returned one week later, after a magical\u00a0trip in the desert. When I entered the shop I felt an intense presence, extremely intense, to my right. So intense that I could not but turn to look. There She was. Gorgeous, radiant, full of Shakti. I could not turn my eyes and even my body from that murti. She was \u00a0Saraswati, of course. I had to take a difficult choice because I did not have enough money for both and it was Her that made the journey\u00a0to Spain.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”off” custom_width_px=”1080px” custom_width_percent=”80%” use_custom_gutter=”off” gutter_width=”3″ padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” make_equal=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”on” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”on” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”on” parallax_4=”off” parallax_method_4=”on” disabled=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off” border_color=”#ffffff”]<\/p>\n After that long journey in India I moved to Barcelona, where I would teach yoga. It was my \u00a0return to Spain, to my country, after nearly eight years of absence. My first yoga class in Barcelona was February 5th 2005. It was\u00a0Saraswati<\/em> puja. From that day I always celebrate it. I also feel Her expressing through me every time I teach.<\/p>\n Back to transmutation, Saraswati<\/em> evokes the energy of the muse. She is pure inspiration. She is the creative energy of the Universe and all the beautiful ways in which it\u00a0manifests through us. \u00a0Saraswati<\/em> represents all\u00a0human capacities to create beauty. \u00a0Radically\u00a0different from most other Goddesses from the hindu pantheon, that they are usually very connected with Nature, She represents the refinement of language, everything that makes us fully humans, the capacity of abstract thought, the possibility to evoke feelings through poetry, of reaching the heart through music.<\/p>\n Besides refined and generative of beauty through words, sounds, colors, images, this creative energy is profoundly transformative. \u00a0In a writing course with my dear friend\u00a0Susanna Harwood-Rubin, we were asked to contemplate which were the rasa<\/em>s (feelings, flavors of existence) from which we more often wrote. I observed that I like to write from experiences of ecstasy and deep connection, but also many time from sadness, from pain and, sometimes even from anger and frustration. Getting\u00a0inspired in difficult experiences and transforming them into words, finding the connection between what I feel, what I am going through and myths, stories, teachings, becomes an alchemical process through which the feelings transmute and the experiences take on\u00a0a new sense. \u00a0The alchemical power of art is there both for the artist and for the ones that enjoy the artwork. For example, Picasso\u00b4s\u00a0Guernica. Through his inspiration and mastery, he was able to transform a horrendous experience in a magnificent piece of art, full of symbols and full of feelings, that makes us live the horrors of war, but reminds us, at the same time, of the human capacity to create beauty from any situation.<\/p>\n This year I feel \u00a0Saraswati<\/em>\u00a0very present. Writing, creating, as a way to transform, new creative projects that bubble inside of me. It is my strong desire to have the steadiness and well doing so they get born. In the meantime I have\u00a0been loving painting feathers, as if to transform the heaviness of the world into lightness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off”] [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was getting ready for the Anusara Yoga Teacher Training in Morocco, a very especial\u00a0course for me for multiple reasons, I invoke the energy of one of my most close and loved archetypes: the Goddess\u00a0Saraswati, the power, among many other things, of language and communication; also the sacred energy of mantra. And just in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" [et_pb_section transparent_background=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" inner_shadow=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"on\" padding_mobile=\"off\" make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"off\" custom_width_px=\"1080px\" custom_width_percent=\"80%\" make_equal=\"off\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" fullwidth=\"off\" specialty=\"off\" admin_label=\"section\" disabled=\"off\"][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"off\" custom_width_px=\"1080px\" custom_width_percent=\"80%\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" gutter_width=\"3\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"on\" make_equal=\"off\" column_padding_mobile=\"on\" parallax_1=\"off\" parallax_method_1=\"on\" parallax_2=\"off\" parallax_method_2=\"on\" parallax_3=\"off\" parallax_method_3=\"on\" parallax_4=\"off\" parallax_method_4=\"on\" admin_label=\"row\" disabled=\"off\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\" disabled=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"on\" column_padding_mobile=\"on\"][et_pb_text background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" admin_label=\"Texto\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_style=\"solid\" disabled=\"off\"]<\/p> Mientras me preparo para la Formaci\u00f3n de Profesores de Anusara yoga en Marruecos, un curso que por m\u00faltiples razones es muy especial para m\u00ed y que comienza ma\u00f1ana, invoco la energ\u00eda de uno de mis arquetipos m\u00e1s queridos y cercanos: la Diosa Saraswati<\/em>, el poder entre otras cosas del lenguaje y de la comunicaci\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n la sagrada energ\u00eda del mantra. Y, justo en estos d\u00edas en que se acaba de celebrar Saraswati puja, y conectando con mi tema de este a\u00f1o\u00a0Transmutaci\u00f3n<\/em>, quiero escribir sobre la creatividad, sobre la inspiraci\u00f3n, sobre el arte y todas las formas en que los seres humanos nos expresamos creativamente\u00a0para transformar nuestra experiencia.<\/p> Saraswati<\/em> es la Diosa del lenguaje, de la expresi\u00f3n art\u00edstica en todas sus formas, de los maestros, de los estudiantes, del refinamiento. A lo largo de mis a\u00f1os como yogini he mantenido una estrecha relaci\u00f3n con ella. De hecho, esta relaci\u00f3n ha existido durante toda mi vida, ya que siempre he sido una empollona, pero en mis \u00e9pocas pre-yoga no sab\u00eda que los apasionados del estudio canalizamos la energ\u00eda de esta bella deidad\u00a0hind\u00fa. Cosas del destino, que a pesar de que Kali<\/em>, Durga<\/em> o Laksmi<\/em> me han tenido muy ocupada, es ella la que ocupa el lugar m\u00e1s privilegiado en mi altar. Entre\u00a02003 y 2004 pas\u00e9 casi un a\u00f1o entero en\u00a0India. Aparte de otras muchas cosas, uno de mis objetivos era encontrar\u00a0un murti<\/em> (una representaci\u00f3n f\u00edsica normalmente en metal, piedra o madera de una deidad). Lo quer\u00eda grande, de exquisita terminaci\u00f3n y preferentemente de Shiva Nataraja<\/em>. Shiva<\/em> en la forma del Se\u00f1or de la Danza, <\/em>es otro arquetipo\u00a0muy significativo en mi vida espiritual a trav\u00e9s de varios linajes. No s\u00f3lo eso, sin\u00f3 que una de mis visitas a su templo en Chidambaran<\/em>, dedicado al elemento del espacio o akasha<\/em> y con un nombre tan sugerente como \"Envuelto o arropado en Consciencia\"<\/em> \u00a0literalmente me salv\u00f3 la vida.\u00a0(Aqu\u00ed hay otra historia que escribir\u00e9 alg\u00fan d\u00eda\u00a0pero por\u00a0ahora seguimos con el murti). Fu\u00e9 all\u00ed donde encontr\u00e9 el Nataraja<\/em> de mis sue\u00f1os pero por alguna extra\u00f1a raz\u00f3n, de esas que s\u00f3lo ocurren en India, no era posible mandarlo a Espa\u00f1a desde all\u00ed. 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All\u00ed estaba el Nataraja m\u00e1s hermoso que hab\u00eda visto en mi vida. Lo reserv\u00e9 feliz y volv\u00ed a por \u00e9l una semana despu\u00e9s de un m\u00e1gico\u00a0viaje por el desierto. Al entrar de\u00a0nuevo en la tienda sent\u00ed una presencia intensa, intens\u00edsima, a mi derecha. Tan intensa que me volv\u00ed a mirar. Y all\u00ed estaba ella. Hermosa, radiante, llena de Shakti. No pod\u00eda apartar mis ojos de esa figura. Era Saraswati, claro. Tuve que elegir porque no ten\u00eda dinero para los dos mutis y fue ella la que viaj\u00f3 a Espa\u00f1a.<\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=\"off\" use_custom_width=\"off\" width_unit=\"off\" custom_width_px=\"1080px\" custom_width_percent=\"80%\" use_custom_gutter=\"off\" gutter_width=\"3\" padding_mobile=\"off\" allow_player_pause=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"on\" make_equal=\"off\" column_padding_mobile=\"on\" parallax_1=\"off\" parallax_method_1=\"on\" parallax_2=\"off\" parallax_method_2=\"on\" parallax_3=\"off\" parallax_method_3=\"on\" parallax_4=\"off\" parallax_method_4=\"on\" admin_label=\"Fila\" disabled=\"off\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\" disabled=\"off\" parallax=\"off\" parallax_method=\"on\" column_padding_mobile=\"on\"][et_pb_text background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" admin_label=\"Texto\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_style=\"solid\" disabled=\"off\"]<\/p> Despues de ese viaje a India me fu\u00ed a vivir a Barcelona\u00a0donde\u00a0empec\u00e9 a dar clases de yoga. Era mi regreso a Espa\u00f1a despu\u00e9s de \u00a0casi 8 a\u00f1os de ausencia.\u00a0Mii primera clase de yoga fue\u00a0el 5 de febrero de 2005, el d\u00eda que se celebraba Saraswati<\/em> puja. Desde entonces lo celebro cada a\u00f1o. Tambi\u00e9n\u00a0siento que cada vez que doy una clase es ella que se expresa a trav\u00e9s de m\u00ed.<\/p> Volviendo a la transmutaci\u00f3n, Saraswati<\/em> evoca la energ\u00eda de la musa. Es la inspiraci\u00f3n pura. Es\u00a0la energ\u00eda creativa del Universo y todas las formas hermosas en que se manifiesta a trav\u00e9s de nosotros. Saraswati<\/em> representa las capacidades humanas de crear belleza. \u00a0Muy diferente de casi todas las dem\u00e1s diosas del pante\u00f3n hind\u00fa que est\u00e1n muy conectadas con la naturaleza, ella representa el refinamiento del lenguaje, todo lo que nos hace plenamente humanos, la capacidad de pensamiento abstracto, la posibilidad de evocar sentimientos a trav\u00e9s de la poes\u00eda, de tocar el coraz\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s de\u00a0la m\u00fasica.<\/p> Adem\u00e1s de refinada, esa\u00a0energ\u00eda creativa, generadora de belleza, a trav\u00e9s de las palabras, de los sonidos. de los colores, de las im\u00e1genes, es profundamente transformadora. En un curso de escritura de mi amiga Susanna Harwood-Rubin, contempl\u00e1bamos cuales eran las rasa<\/em>s (sentimientos, sabores de la existencia) desde las que escrib\u00edamos con m\u00e1s frecuencia. Observ\u00e9 que a m\u00ed me gusta escribir desde experiencias de \u00e9xtasis y conexi\u00f3n profunda, pero tambi\u00e9n muchas veces desde la tristeza, el dolor, y a veces desde la ira y la frustraci\u00f3n. Inspirarme en experiencias que son dif\u00edciles y transformarlas en palabras, encontrar la conexi\u00f3n de lo que siento, de lo que me pasa con historias, con ense\u00f1anzas, es un proceso alqu\u00edmico en el que los sentimientos se transmutan, y las experiencias cobran nuevo sentido. El poder\u00a0alqu\u00edmico del arte existe tanto para el artista como para los que disfrutan de la obra de arte. Por ejemplo el Guernica de Picasso. A\u00a0trav\u00e9s de la inspiraci\u00f3n y de su maestr\u00eda, fue capaz de transformar\u00a0una experiencia horrenda, en una obra de arte, llena de s\u00edmbolos y tambi\u00e9n de sentimientos, que nos hace vivir\u00a0los horrores de la guerra, pero nos recuerda a la vez la capacidad del ser humano de crear belleza a partir de cualquier situaci\u00f3n.<\/p> Este a\u00f1o siento a Saraswati<\/em> muy presente. Escribir, crear, como una forma de transformar; nuevos proyectos creativos que surgen en mi interior como burbujas y que deseo de coraz\u00f3n tener la constancia y el buen hacer para que lleguen a nacer. Y entre tanto me ha dado por pintar plumas, como para transformar la pesadez del mundo en ligereza.<\/p> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"left\" admin_label=\"Texto\" use_border_color=\"off\" border_style=\"solid\" disabled=\"off\"] [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Which feelings or experiences awaken your creativity?<\/h4>\n
Is there any experience in this moment in your life that you would like to transmute through artistic expression?<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u00bfQu\u00e9\u00a0sensaciones o experiencias despiertan\u00a0tu creatividad?<\/h4>
\u00bfHay alguna experiencia en este momento que te gustar\u00eda transformar a trav\u00e9s de la\u00a0\u00a0expresi\u00f3n art\u00edstica?<\/h4><\/blockquote>