Yoga
October 2008 
Happy Norooz and Spring Equinox!
Posted on Mar 19th, 2007
by 
Sanieh
Sanieh
On Tuesday March 20, we celebrate the Persian New Year and the Vernal Equinox! ... and much much more! Such an Auspicious time this is!!! Below I have listed just a few world wide celebrations- compliments of http://www.hermes3.net/mar307.htm.
3/19 - 27 (nine days): Hindu New Year comes now at the great annual Spring festival of Navaratri, also called Gangaur because it celebrates the Great Mother (Maha Devi) in her aspect as Gauri, the nurturer, the source of all vitality, fruition and increase. Each of the festival's nine days -- the number symbolizing the months in a human gestation cycle -- venerates a different emanation of the goddess.
3/20- Spring Equinox, one of the four great cardinal festivals of the solar year. The spring season begins as the Sun enters Aries, and as James Joyce put it, the Ram has power. The festival period that begins now, and lasts for nearly a week, marks the return of Light, and of Mother Earth's vitality, from winter's long darkness and cold. From this point on the solar wheel, the days grow longer until the Summer Solstice and the "white nights" of late June. Spiritual traditions all over the planet celebrate this festival with hunts for eggs, rabbits and other symbols of birth.
3/20- In Japan this day is Shubun, the Buddhist day of contemplation on hakanai, the impermanence of things. This day is ideally placed, not long before the start of one of nature's most glorious spectacles of impermanence, the Japanese cherry blossom season.
3/20- This day begins the annual Taoist festival honoring the Shen, or deity of Spring, the Water element, and the East, with all that these imply as principles of origin and growth.
3/20- In both the ancient Persian and modern Baha'i calendars, this day is Naw Ruz, the New Year festival. ***(HAPPY NAW RUZ, BABAJUN!!!!)***
I began my 30 day personal sadhana practice on the Sunday, the New Moon which will go for 30 days until the next full moon. I can already see and feel the works of the practice I chose to embrace and learn from. There has already been a shift in what my practice time on the mat is about; where my heart rests; and the purpose of doing so. I REALLY look forward to what this time is going to bring with all of the major shifts taking place in the world and our planet as a whole. SUCH an Auspicious time this is!
I am thankful to be able to teach class on the evening of the Spring Equinox and all of these other beautiful traditions sharing the day ~ a celebration in deed!
In the words of my beautifully spirited teacher, Shiva:
"Bless your home, your body, and the emerging light.
Make space internally and all around you for new life to awaken."
OM SHREEM MA-HA LAKSHMIYEI SWAHA
Abundance and Infinite Blessings on the path...
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com
3/19 - 27 (nine days): Hindu New Year comes now at the great annual Spring festival of Navaratri, also called Gangaur because it celebrates the Great Mother (Maha Devi) in her aspect as Gauri, the nurturer, the source of all vitality, fruition and increase. Each of the festival's nine days -- the number symbolizing the months in a human gestation cycle -- venerates a different emanation of the goddess.
3/20- Spring Equinox, one of the four great cardinal festivals of the solar year. The spring season begins as the Sun enters Aries, and as James Joyce put it, the Ram has power. The festival period that begins now, and lasts for nearly a week, marks the return of Light, and of Mother Earth's vitality, from winter's long darkness and cold. From this point on the solar wheel, the days grow longer until the Summer Solstice and the "white nights" of late June. Spiritual traditions all over the planet celebrate this festival with hunts for eggs, rabbits and other symbols of birth.
3/20- In Japan this day is Shubun, the Buddhist day of contemplation on hakanai, the impermanence of things. This day is ideally placed, not long before the start of one of nature's most glorious spectacles of impermanence, the Japanese cherry blossom season.
3/20- This day begins the annual Taoist festival honoring the Shen, or deity of Spring, the Water element, and the East, with all that these imply as principles of origin and growth.
3/20- In both the ancient Persian and modern Baha'i calendars, this day is Naw Ruz, the New Year festival. ***(HAPPY NAW RUZ, BABAJUN!!!!)***
I began my 30 day personal sadhana practice on the Sunday, the New Moon which will go for 30 days until the next full moon. I can already see and feel the works of the practice I chose to embrace and learn from. There has already been a shift in what my practice time on the mat is about; where my heart rests; and the purpose of doing so. I REALLY look forward to what this time is going to bring with all of the major shifts taking place in the world and our planet as a whole. SUCH an Auspicious time this is!
I am thankful to be able to teach class on the evening of the Spring Equinox and all of these other beautiful traditions sharing the day ~ a celebration in deed!
In the words of my beautifully spirited teacher, Shiva:
"Bless your home, your body, and the emerging light.
Make space internally and all around you for new life to awaken."
OM SHREEM MA-HA LAKSHMIYEI SWAHA
Abundance and Infinite Blessings on the path...
Sanieh
www.saniehyoga.com
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