Living Yoga

and

Your Life Purpose

An exploration through yoga principles and practices to develop a healthy mind and energetic body so you can discover and fulfill your Life Purpose.

Do you know your life’s purpose?

Is happiness, health and prosperity your current status?

What does freedom look and feel like to you?

Curious to discover the power of your life at its fullest potential?


                            

"The destiny you have achieved up until now has been shaped by all the choices you have made in the past."

Rod Stryker

Join Gina Rafkind and Mary MacDowell for a 10 week exploration to learn and implement the ancient principles and wisdom of Yoga as well as exercises to uncover your dharma - your Life Purpose.

Learn why discovering your life purpose and acquiring the tools, energy and vitality to be able to work towards it and live it, is vital to living a content, satisfying life.

You will do this by:

  • Learning simple yet effective tools & practices

  • Applying those tools to increase your energy and vitality

  • Receiving Guidance and Coaching

  • Participating in a Book Discussion Circle

Why are we including The Four Desires book?

We have found this to be an amazing and life altering book - but not an easy book to get through on your own. It requires you to not just read and think but this book introduces new and challenging ideas so you can apply what you are learning in very real and often deep ways.


WHY JOIN US FOR THIS JOURNEY?
CHECK OUT THESE AMAZING BENEFITS YOU WILL RECEIVE:

  • Truly excited to wake up each day with a renewed sense of purpose

  • A greater sense of who you are and what you can become

  • Feel more clarity in your mind, making day to day decisions easier to make because you now have a compasses that guides you - your Dharma Code and Sankalpa

  • The ability to move through life challenges with grace because of the tools you have learned and implemented

  • Knowing your dharma code (Your Soul's Purpose), you gain a new sense of aliveness

  • Renewed vitality and energy to live the life that truly matters to you, with fierce determination and commitment

  • Energy to do the things you want to do by developing the courage to set clear boundaries and the ability to say 'No, that's not for me, thank you.'

  • A clear realization that it's ok to be who you are and what others may think doesn't bother you anymore

 

Plus:

  • Develop new connections and friendships

  • Engage in interesting conversations with like-minded folks

HERE'S WHAT WE'LL BE EXPLORING EACH WEEK:

Each session will start with a centering practice and each session will end with a closing practice.

 Week 1 - Orientation and Overview 

 
Welcome to Living Yoga & Your Life Purpose. This week you will co-create an intentional, safe and supportive space where everyone feels comfortable and confident to dive deeply into the exploration of their individual life purpose and how the eight fold path of Yoga is specifically designed to support you in fulfilling this.
 
  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Overview of program and expectations 
  • Review of Zoom and Kajabi
  • The KMI Agenda
  • Introduction to Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga
  • Discussion of yoga asana (pose) practice
  • Activity - Awareness Avatar
  • The Four Desires - Facilitated discussion of the introduction
Week 2 - Soul Purpose
 
From a yogic perspective your Soul is pure, perfect and unchanging and your life’s purpose is to connect to this ultimate state of eternal bliss. This week we will explore the power of desire as a means to discovering your purpose in life.
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #1: the Yamas
  • Yoga Asana Practice 
  • The Four Desires - Facilitated discussion of chapters 1 - 3
  • Activity - Yamas exercise
  • Independent Exploration
Week 3 - Your Higher Purpose 
 
Dharma is the first of the four desires or Purusharthas. We all have a unique and individual dharma that when you uncover and align yourself to this it will become a compass for your thoughts and actions. Finding your Dharma - your true reason for being on this earth - releases a power and a capacity to live your fullest and best life with passion and purpose.
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #2:  the Niyamas
  • Yoga Asana Practice discussion
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapters 4 - 5
  • Activity - Niyamas exercise
  • Independent Exploration 
Week 4 - Unlocking Your  Dharma Code
 
This week we begin the Dharma Code Exercise. It's a lengthy and can be somewhat challenging activity so we have allotted two weeks to go over this. The exercise will reveal your dharma code to the extent that you are ready to receive it. In other words, while your dharma doesn’t change, your understanding standing of it can. This frees you up to play with the discovery process and reduces the pressure to get it perfect the first time around.
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #3: Asana
  • Yoga Asana Discussion
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapter 6
  • Activity - Dharma Code exercise
  • Independent Exploration 
     
Week 5 - Dharma Decryption Deciphered
 
Through discussion and reflection, clarity emerges to give you your 'working dharma' and the jumping off point for moving through the rest of the book and your life.
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #4: Pranayama
  • Yoga Asana Practice
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapter 6
  • Activity - Dharma Code exercise
  • Independent Exploration 
Week 6 - Adjusting Your Mind's Antennae
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #5: Pratyahara
  • Yoga Asana Discussion
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapter 7
  • Activity - Meditation on the Breath
  • Independent Exploration 
Week 7 - Blissfully Seeking Your Sankalpa
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #6: Dharana
  • Yoga Asana Practice
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapters 8 & 9
  • Activity - Tritaka
  • Independent Exploration 
Week 8 - Seven Steps to Securing Your Sankalpa
 
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #7: Dhyana
  • Yoga Asana Discussion
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapter 10
  • Activity - Sankalpa Exercise
  • Independent Exploration 
Week 9 - Stating Your Sankalpa
 
  • Introduction to Yoga Limb #8: Samadhi
  • Yoga Asana Practice
  • The Four Desires - Discussion of chapter 10
  • Activity - Sankalpa Exercise: sharing and refining
  • Independent Exploration
Week 10 - Celebrating and Capsulating
 
This week we pause and take time to review and celebrate what you’ve learned, experienced and achieved!  It will be fun, interactive and a completion of this circle and the start to a whole new way of living with purpose.
 
  • Review of the Eight Fold Yogic Path
  • Yoga Asana Practice Overview
  • The Four Desires - Discussion and review of chapters 1 - 10
  • What's Next - How to keep moving forward
  • Activity - Guided Relaxation and sharing of highlights
  • Closing Celebration

If You've Been Looking for the Deeper Purpose of Your Life, Read On....

The first circle is a really affordable and comfortable way to begin.

Over the course of ten weeks, we will cover the eight limbs of yoga, the introduction and chapters one through ten of The Four Desires book.

At the end of the first circle, you may wish to continue on your own. We hope you will join us for circle number two, covering chapters 11 - 19 and maybe right to the end with circle number three and chapters 20 - 29.

Full Course Details:

  • When: Thursdays at 1 - 2:30 pm ET beginning Septembe 19 - November 21 (10 weeks)
  • Where: Online via Zoom (a user friendly video conferencing app) from the comfort of your home
  • Cost: Only $149 for ten - 90 minute gatherings. If you sign up with a friend, spouse or partner pay only $249. You must sign up together and pay in full to take advantage of this cost savings.

 

You Will Come Away With:

  • A greater sense of who you are and what you can become
  • Every day applications of yoga and meditation
  • Simple mantra and pranayama techniques
  • Knowing your dharma code (Your Soul's Purpose)
  • A clear desire that you will be determined and committed to achieve.

 

And...

  • New connections and friendships
  • Interesting conversations
  • Gentle accountability, encouragement and support as you work through this potentially life changing book

 

Course Includes:

  • 10 - ninety minute online sessions to discuss and put into practice the ideas and exercises presented in this course and in the book
  • 10 Audio replay recordings
  • Private membership group for further discussions, and to access all handouts, yoga routines, audio recordings. (You will have access to this private membership site for one month after the very last session.)
  • Original yoga routines 
  • Sanskrit Cheat Sheet for each chapter

 

What you need:

  • A copy of Rod Stryker’s book The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom
  • Access to a reliable internet connection 
  • Free Zoom app (user-friendly video conferencing app)
  • A commitment to do the reading assignments and chapter exercises
  • An open, curious and non-judgemental attitude

 

Highly Recommended:

  • A note book or binder to keep all of your notes, exercises in one place
  • A yoga mat

 

Optional but not necessary:

  • The accompanying Four Desires Workbook
  • The Four Desires CD

 

Bonuses:

  • Access to the Inner Peace Hut
  • Invitation to Creative Work-Inspired Play™
  • 3 original yoga sequences
  • Understanding your dosha quiz and PDF
  • Short Yoga Nidra recording
  • Discount on next course

 

*Earlybird Bonus - the first four people to sign up will each receive a one hour coaching call

 

$149
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Mary and Gina cannot wait to explore the invaluable information contained in this incredible book!

LIVING YOGA and YOUR LIFE PURPOSE

A sankalpa needs to be authentic--something that is consistent with the deeper meaning and purpose of your life. It must be in harmony with--and ultimately serve--your Dharma Code.

Rod Stryker

 

 

Hey! I'm Gina

I love helping people discover their strong, vibrant Self by embarking on their own De-Mudifying journey by incorporating the ancient sciences of Yoga & Ayurveda plus de-mudifying tools from my own unique 20+ year muddy healing journey.

 

 

"Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your personal dharma and fill the place in the world that only you can fill."

Rod Stryker

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