Not really a meditate on your ancestors kind of girl, and yet...

[muck_a_luck]

I got Shiva Rea's Yoga Trance Dance DVD for Christmas, mostly because I really liked the piece I could see on You Tube, and it is a totally different kind of thing for me.

Shiva recites from The Radiance Yoga Sutras (Vijnana Bhairava Tantra) during Sivasana, and in particular, the last line of her selection struck me as being very much what I have been taking away from yoga during my early exploration of it:

Contemplate the constituents of your body: muscles and blood, breath and bones, is made out of radiantly dancing emptiness. Attend to the skin as a subtle boundary containing vastness. Enter that shimmering and pulsing vastness. Discover that you are not separate from anything there, and there is no "other;" no object to meditate on that is not you.

There is a place in the heart where everything meets. Enter the bowl of vastness that is the heart. Give yourself to it with total abandon. Quiet ecstasy is there, and a steady regal sense of resting in a perfect spot. Contemplate the entire universe and your entire body is filled with inexpressible happiness.

Drink the ambrosia of that all-pervading joy from the radiant cup that is this very body.

So. Not like me. I'm not seeking any particular enlightenment. But still.

Drink from the radiant cup. There's definitely something there for me.