Love, devotion ... and test

The speaker discusses Bhakti yoga, the yoga of the elements and chakras. They explain how opening different chakras affects one's inner journey. Bhakti yoga involves having a devotional relationship with a teacher. They compare it to the Kagyu system in Tibetan Buddhism and the Sufi tradition, which also emphasize devotion and opening the heart. They mention that most people are familiar with Hatha yoga, which focuses on the earth chakra and stabilizing oneself. They emphasize the importance of fluidity and movement in yoga practice. They mention that different systems may have different terminology, but what matters is finding what works for each individual. They mention that epiphanies can occur in various forms, such as mental, physical, or related to interconnectedness. They highlight the importance of personal exploration and experimentation. The speaker concludes by mentioning their new microphone and computer server. Hi everyone, I've got a new microphone which I'm using for this recording and I'm going to talk a little bit about Bhakti yoga or the yoga of the elements, the chakras and how people open different chakras and this affects their inner journey if you like. The Bhakti thing is interesting, it's similar in Tibetan Buddhism which I'm more familiar with is the Kagyu system which is faith based, heart based, you sort of fall, you have a devotional relationship with a teacher. In other aspects of the Tibetan tradition you may concentrate on wisdom, just as we have wisdom in yoga, but I'm going to talk about primarily the idea of opening the heart, love devotion and surrender as they said in the 60s, this was a way of doing things, opening the heart and the Sufi tradition also tends to start from the heart, from devotion to teachers and teachings and opening the heart first. So this is a practice in itself, whereas the sorts of yoga that most people are familiar with are very much based on the lowest chakra, when I say lowest it's the earth chakra, it's actually a very good way of starting, so if you start with the earth, that is the Hatha yoga which is a tantric form of yoga, it's a physical form of yoga and it stabilises, it's all to do with earthing oneself and stabilising oneself, so it's quite effective and from there you can move on up to more fluidity, you'll find that people in their practice are not so much interested in the static earthing within their practice but they start to develop a fluidity where the movement in between from one posture to another, this is the way I was taught, that the movement from one posture to another is more important than the static aspect of each posture and then you sort of move up through the chakras but let's talk about those two in particular. The movement, or those three, you know, it depends on the system, the different systems use these terminologies in different ways and it doesn't matter how you think of them or how you classify them, it's whether they work for you and they will do, people have different forms of epiphany, they may start right at the top, the opening of the mind and the dragon, the top chakra and this influences their understanding, this is sometimes the enlightenment experience but you can have a physical epiphany, you can have a love epiphany, you can have something to do with the fluidity of seeing the interrelationship between all things flowing through the universe. So these are all different ways of looking at things and they are all equally important and we have to generate that process within ourselves to one degree or another and how we do that and how we manage to open ourselves to that experience is something that varies from person to person. Anyway, that's all from me for today, I'm not going to go too much into things, you've got to find them, there's tons of stuff for you to read out there but it's just an idea and a test for me of my new microphone and my new computer server. I think I'm recording this in mono so the next time I may do it in mono but on two channels or something. Anyway, bye now.