Healthy Living - Yoga Living Magazine

September/October 2007 

www.yogalivingmagazine.com 

Volume IX, Issue II 

Local Resources for 

Healthy 

Living 

! 

Holistic 

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Creating a Vigorous Home Yoga Practice 

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LocalResources for Healthy Living! 


Yoga 

Theory 

YOGA = 

SELF-TRANSFORMATION 

8 | Contributors 

10 | Editorial 

By Dr. Bob Butera 

12 | Letter to the Readers 

14 | Yoga for Kids & Parents 

By Kelly Fielden 

16 | The Skin You’re In; Asana 

and the Lymphatic System 

By Erika Tennebaum 

18 | Holistic Education 

By Linda Lyng 

20 | In the Shade of the 

Yoga Tree 

By M.L. Youngbear Roth 

24 | Applying Satya, the 

First Yama 

By Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND 

26 | Meditation and Holistic 

Education 

By Anthony Michael Rubbo, MHS 

14 

33 

20 

Psychology 

& Health 

28 

| Top 7 Success Tips 

By Jack Canfield 

30 | When Sadness Doesn’t Go 

Away 

By Carol Haytko 

32 | Life Passages 

By Aura Rose 

33 | Focus on the Need of Your 

Inner Child to Create & Play 

By Gina Alzate 

34 | Dreamer Dan, Holistic Educator 

By Ji 

36 | Is It Healing or Magic, and 

Does It Really Matter 

By Rusty Stewart, PhD 

Massage & 

Healing Arts 

40 

| The Sugar Blues: It’s Not 

Just Diabetes 

By Michael Cheikin, MD 

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Doers | Player | Teacher | Representative | A Voice | Impetus | Reflection | Learning | Imagine 

> 

Carol Haytko 

is a writer, vegetarian, 

yogini, and 

activist. She lives in Montgomery 

county, Pennsylvania, 

and can be reached at 

carol.haytko@gmail.com. 

When Sadness Doesn’t Go Away, 

page 30 

Recipes: From Our Home to 

Yours, Falling Into Fall! page 44 

> 

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Certified Holistic 

Health Counselor, 

1:1 nutritional and 

lifestyle counseling classes and 

workshops, speaking engagements, 

as well as preventative 

wellness in corporations. Reach 

her at susiebeiler@hotmail- 

.com, or www.spectrumhealthconsulting.com. 

Integrate Your Nutrition Education 

page 47 

Gina Alzate is a lifelong student 

of Metaphysics and human 

consciousness. She teaches spiritual 

growth and personal awareness 

and can be found at 

www.holisticlifedesigns.com. 

Focus on the Need of Your Inner 

Child to Create and Play, page 33 

Rusty 

Stewart | PH.D 

See Rusty’s website 

for information at personalgrowthalternatives.com 

Is It Healing or Magic, and Does It 

Really Matter page 36 

Michael >> 

Cheikin | MD 

is a holistic physician, 

Board 

Certified in Physical Medicine 

and Rehabilitation (Physiatry), 

Pain Management, Spinal Cord 

Medicine and Electro-diagnostic 

Medicine. Contact him at 

drc@c4oh.org 

The Sugar Blues: It’s Not Just 

Diabetes, page 40 

Kelly >> 

Fielden | M.ED 

is a Montessori 

Elementary 

Teacher at Valley Forge 

Kinder House. She is 

currently training at the 

YogaLife institute to be a 

yoga teacher for adults and 

children. Reach her at funliberalteach@yahoo.com. 

Yoga for Kids and Parents, page 14 

Gila Cadry is a native of 

the Middle East and studied 

traditional Judaism. She comes 

from a family of cantors and 

sound healing is Gila’s vocation, 

avocation and passion. Reach 

her at gila@gilachants.com. 

The Power of Music and Faith: An 

Interview with Gila Cadry, page 56 

Aurore Adamkiewicz | ND is 

an Ayurvedic Naturopath and 

Yoga instructor in Howell, MI. 

She can be reached at www.beyondnaturalmedicine.com. 

Applying Satya, the First Yama, 

page 24 

> 

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is a consultant to 

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leadership and meditation. He 

is currently writing a novel and 

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Meditation and Holistic Exercise, 

page 26 

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Inside YogaLiving | 

Editor’s Note 

“ 

When the the student teacher is ready, 

appears. 

” 

This Yogic saying holds a key universal truth about learning. Regardless of 

age, social class or ethnic background, information can be presented to a 

student, and then the student must choose to learn what is set before 

them. Developing a readiness to learn in students is the art that all good 

teachers practice. 

The Western model of cramming information into the minds of young children 

so that they can regurgitate it for testing purposes effects minimal 

change – perhaps even creating a disrespect for the learning process 

itself. For example, dictating to a child that they will follow as yoga pose 

routine to increase concentration, improve grades and make themselves a 

better athlete is not likely to elicit a positive response. The same is true 

for most adults. 

Conversely, when a teacher asks a young boy about his life, a new 

dynamic develops. The dialogue may sound something like, “So tell me, 

what are your hobbies What do you love to do that makes you smarter, 

stronger and happier” The child might answer in a sly way at first, but if 

the teacher cares enough to notice the child’s innate talents, a connection 

can be nurtured. As the child begins talking about playing soccer in the 

fall, the teacher could then ask what the child needs to be a better soccer 

player. The end of the conversation may have the child saying he needs 

to be in good cardiovascular shape, and that he needs good balance and 

coordination. He might even say that he needs to stop getting so mad 

when he makes a mistake. 

Keeping in this same model of educationally guided inquiry, the teacher 

may ask the student if he is ready to learn a few unique ways to get 

ahead and excel, and the student’s response may sound like, “Yeah, let’s 

get going, what can I do” It becomes easier for the teacher to say, “Let 

me show you a yoga pose routine that will help increase your concentration, 

improve your grades and make you a better athlete. Let’s start with 

deep breathing to help you keep focused, improve your running and help 

you manage emotions when you get upset after making a mistake. The 

young man has become ready to learn of his own volition. He is empowered 

by his own process of self-discovery, brought on by the direct questions 

of the teacher. The teacher has done his job because the he helped 

the student realize that he was ready to learn.* 

This process is not a rote formula to be disseminated to the masses – it is 

more a subtle interplay of intuition and inquiry. There are no outlines to follow 

or set number of questions to ask. The teacher must genuinely wish 

to understand who the student is and what they wish to become. Like 

yeast to flour, the teacher is a catalyst for the student to discover their 

goals and then set out a path to achieve them. 

Think about it from this perspective: would you rather have a teacher who 

knows everything or a teacher who sincerely cares about your well-being 

Your Editor, 

Bob Butera, PhD, Yoga Living Publisher, Director of the YogaLife Institute in 

Devon, PA, writer, and national trainer of Yoga Teachers 

*Note: While names were left out to protect privacy, the example of the young soccer 

player is a true story. 

Yoga Living 

Your Healthy Lifestyle Guide 

Holistic 

Education 


Volume IX, Issue II 

 

Publisher 

ROBERT J. BUTERA, Ph.D. 

Editor 

KRISTEN FINNIE 

Art Director 

AMIE L. HANNAH 

Partners Press, Oaks, PA 

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Fielden, Gina Alzate, ML Youngbear 

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Inside YogaLiving | 

Letter to the Readers 

Celebrating9Years of Service! 

Yoga Living 

began as 

a glorified 

newsletter in 1999. From its inception 

to the present day, our magazine has been 

greeted with enthusiasm from the burgeoning 

holistic community. Whether 

they are practitioners, supporters or solidified 

believers – all of them are seeking 

ways to maximize the movement and 

their potential to effect change within it. 

While the theme of this issue is 

Education, the goal of every issue we publish 

is public education. The mission of 

Yoga Living is to reach to the local community 

and educate everyone about the myriad 

of holistic options available to them. 

One of the revolutionary concepts that 

Yoga Living drives home to the holistic 

community is this: Advertising can be 

educationally driven. Done well, it can be 

a sign-post announcing important information 

to the person who is ready to 

receive it. Consider it a “Hey you! Learn 

this and your life will improve!” from the 

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While we all live in a capitalistic society, 

you will find that most holistic practitioners 

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not easily achieved through traditional 

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working with our advertisers to present 

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Yoga Living uplifts our readers and maintains 

the integral level of service principles 

on which the magazine was founded. 

All of this depends on you, the reader to 

experience all the benefits of success that 

holistic education has to offer. We invite 

you to do so within these pages... may 

your path be illuminated as you read. 

Your Editor, 

Bob Butera 

 

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Yoga 

by Kelly Fielden, M.Ed. | Yoga Theory 

for Kids 

& Parents 

Children from birth begin perceiving 

their world through 

their senses, and everything 

around them teaches them as they 

grow up. They have sensitive periods 

where they perceive things very acutely, and 

they take in and internalize what is presented 

to them. Adults are the human models 

that act out what children mimic and eventually 

turn into habit. That being said, what a 

better way to model mind and body awareness 

than yoga 

Children love yoga. They look forward to 

yoga classes that are done in a simple, fun 

way for them to learn about their bodies and 

their environment. They enjoy being educated 

about yoga, forming their bodies in the 

various poses and imagining the animal or 

other object they are trying to shape. They 

like to learn about yoga breath, and how 

breathing helps with problem-solving and 

stress. They can understand when their 

instructor talks to them about breathing 

when they feel like arguing with a friend or 

throwing a tantrum. They can be instructed 

with guided meditation, using their budding 

imaginations to take them somewhere 

peaceful as they actively concentrate and 

quiet their minds away from the problem at 

hand. When children do yoga poses, they 

can pay attention to their bodies and feel 

the stretch and not push too hard if there is 

pain. They can comprehend the pose itself 

KIDS YOGA AT THE YOGA LIFE INSTITUTE 

as they do it and how it benefits them. They 

can learn what muscles to pay attention to 

and how they feel as they are stretching. 

Children are amazing concentrators, and 

they can focus on their bodies sometimes 

better than adults can. Their minds are not 

racing like adults, and they can get lost in 

the moment of a peaceful, well-guided 

pose. 

Yoga can be integrated into everyday life for 

children. Parents and educators can use 

yoga principles to educate kids about the 

world around them, their bodies, and what 

role they play in the greater good of society. 

Yoga is not just about poses. It’s about 

awareness, respect, and serenity. The 

awareness is about being aware of their 

bodies. Children can become aware of their 

bodies through yoga and through breath 

work. All they need is a little direction in a 

downward-facing dog pose, and they can 

receive the full benefits that an adult does. 

They can understand about twisting the 

spine in a seated spinal twist pose, and they 

can later look at a skeleton and see how 

their spine twists and turns in five different 

directions. They can integrate yoga with 

their study of the human body, including the 

skeletal, digestive, respiratory, and nervous 

systems. 

Respect is something that is ingrained in 

yoga. As you do a pose, you respect where 

your body is, and you respect your mind by 

calming it and using it for the best possible 

purposes. Children can truly understand this 

concept. They have the ability to extend the 

idea of respect to yoga. The right words 

need to be given as the poses are shown. 

Kids enjoy fun, interesting, child-oriented 

poses. They have fun with lion and cobra 

and windmill and warrior and mouse. They 

like to imagine they are the object they are 

emulating. They use their imagination and 

slay the dragon with the sword as they hold 

Warrior 2. They form unusual and fun hand 

gestures as they make themselves various 

types of trees during tree pose. They 

respect their bodies and the poses they are 

doing with the help of their imagination and 

with the help of the instructor. 

Children can indeed recognize and know 

serenity through yoga. They understand that 

they can change certain things, like stretch 

further in their bodies to feel their muscles 

stretch more. They understand how they 

can turn their bodies upside-down during 

the inverted, shoulder-stand postures. They 

feel how their fingers go numb after keeping 

their hands up in palm tree pose. They also 

understand the other side of serenity. If they 

can’t balance very well in the dancer pose, 

then they try a modification. When they are 

doing bridge, some children like to push 

themselves up into the advanced pose, 

while other try it, have trouble with it, and go 

back to the original pose. They know that 

tree is hard to do when they close their 

eyes, and even if they really cannot do it, 

they try and have fun. Children accept their 

bodies where they are, in the moment, without 

worry about where they should be or 

wanting to look like their neighbor, who 

does the pose just like the guy in the yoga 

magazine. Don’t you wish adults could do 

the same thing 

Children have a lot to teach us about 

accepting our bodies where they are, 

respecting our bodies and our environment, 

and being aware of this moment in time as 

we do our yoga practice. Since they have 

so much to teach us, why shouldn’t we 

teach them 

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Yoga Theory | by Erika Tennebaum 

TheSkin You’re 

in: 

ASANA AND THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM 

INEVER CEASE TO BE AMAZED BY THE YOGIC PATH. 

As I peel away the layers on the surface, deeper realizations 

come to light that make me stop and think. When I 

started practicing yoga six years ago, I was very focused on how 

the muscles in my body were affected. I would get so sore. I 

felt parts of my anatomy I didn’t even know I had. Over time, 

my superficial aches and pains began to fade, and I started to 

notice other things. My skin would look so healthy for days 

after class. My cheeks were getting rosier and my friends took 

notice. Considering that I work as an esthetician (skin care specialist) 

during the day, this was indeed a fortuitous development. 

I was becoming a walking advertisement for skin health 

and radiance. 

I decided to look more deeply into how asana improves overall 

health and, in particular, the skin. As the old saying goes, “The 

eyes are the windows to the soul.” I would go a step further and 

say, “The skin is a window into the wellness of the body.” Yoga 

was improving mine, and I had to know why. 

When I look at someone’s face, I can tell by the condition of 

their skin if there are hormonal, genetic, or digestive issues at 

work within their body. I can also usually see if there are drug or 

alcohol toxicity problems. One of the reasons for this is the 

involvement of the lymphatic system, which is the filtration system 

of the human body. I had the opportunity to study the lymphatic 

system at the Vodder Institute in Cambridge, 

Massachussettes, and my views on the skin and lymph network 

were forever changed. I learned that detoxification via lymphatic 

processes involve the movement of water, whether it is already in 

our bodies or water that we drink. The principle function of the 

lymph system is to channel water through the lymph nodes, like 

a giant internal strainer. After all, the most important element 

in the creation and preservation of life is water. Forty percent of 

the lymphatic system is located throughout the skin. The lymph 

system tends to move rather slowly, so certain manual manipulations, 

known as MLD (Manual Lymphatic Drainage), were created 

to help detoxify the body. When giving someone a treatment 

in MLD, the focus is on stretching the skin in rhythmic 

movements, in varied directions. This speeds up the action of 

the lymphatic network, creating a systemic domino effect. It 

starts in the layers of the skin and sends the effects through the 

entire body, down to the marrow of the bones. 

The major 

functions 

of the lymphatic 

system 

are to 

remove 

excess fluid, 

help absorb 

fatty acids, 

and fortifying 

immunity. 

If this doesn’t equate to a comprehensive detoxification, I 

don’t know what does. You can think of the lymph system as a 

one way road throughout our entire physical being. Two of the 

first stops are our liver and kidneys. The liver is the largest 

organ within the body (the skin is the largest organ in total) 

and specializes in detoxifying the system. It takes up to a half 

an hour to mobilize the lymph system but, once active, it 

remains in a heightened state for three hours. Additionally, by 

drinking at least a glass of water every hour you will increase 

the natural detoxification process. You never have to spend a 

dime on the multi-million dollar “detox” industry that will 

push its pills and powders to those who really don’t need it. 

This is not to minimize the benefits of a legitimate hollistic 

approach to healling the body through herbal therapy. It just 

seems that preventative care should be kept simple, without a 

lot of unneccessary supplements and expensive gimmicks. 

One day during a practice, my teacher commented that a certain 

pose I was in was great for the lymphatic system. I was 

struck by the fact that asana is, in itself, a beautiful exercise in 

keeping the skin and lymph network healthy and flowing. 

Think about a side angle pose. The entire side of the body, from 

foot to fingertips, is being stretched and moving toxins through 

the skin and lymph nodes. Yogic movements involving twisting 

wring out the liver and kidneys like a sponge, purifying the 

body and, by extension, the mind. Asana is essentially a massage 

for the entire body, inside and out. In my experience, yoga 

is about nothing so much as purity. The next time you’re in 

class, take a second, whether during something as simple as 

Tadasana, or a pose as difficult as Locust, that you are doing 

more than stretching your muscles – you are purifying your 

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by Linda Dobrowolski-Lyng 

IUSED TO THINK THAT ONLY DOING YOGA ASANA 

WITHOUT STUDYING SCRIPTURE WAS LIMITING – 

UNTIL THE DAY I ‘GOT’ MY FIRST POSE THROUGH 

DOING THE POSE ALONE. It started with a personal challenge 

to hold each side of Warrior II for five minutes, then 

incrementally up to 20. I managed the first five minutes quite 

easily but, had to go beyond my usual abilities of concentration 

to reach beyond that, especially when it came to doing the second 

side! Somewhere in midst of this challenge, I allowed necessary 

shifts in my stance to allow the pose to flow through me 

rather than making such effort at holding my body in the pose 

– and the difference was magic! Suddenly holding my arms was 

not a burden but a necessary outflow of the incredible energy 

that was being generated in my naval and heart centers. Energy 

rose from my feet through my legs and fed these centers while 

concentration on my fingertips activated the Ajna center 

between my brows. I realized that I could control the flow of 

energy by pumping from the Base Chakra. 

During this time, I had been struggling with some unresolved 

questions about the Bhagavad-Gita – how could the author of 

the Gita place a metaphysical treatise that emphasized nonviolence 

in the midst of a huge 

war Knowing that subsequent 

events in the Mahabharata 

involved Arjuna fighting and 

winning the war for the 

Pandavas, how could I reconcile 

this apparent spiritual 

quagmire I had given this a 

lot of thought, but it was not 

until I was fully able to surrender 

to Virabhadrasana 

II that the answer was 

revealed in a way 

that not only 

addressed the concerns 

of my mind, 

but gave me a deeper 

understanding that I can 

only describe as including 

my body and spirit 

in the ‘knowing.’ 

In fact it 

wasn’t until 

a later time 

that I connected 

the pose with the questions and it was quite a surprise 

to find that what I had thought could only be solved by the 

intellect had had been resolved through asana! Would I have 

had the same insight without studying scripture Perhaps not, 

but this experience definitely reinforced the completeness of 

each stage in studying Yoga and marks the time I began to 

form more definite ideas about the potential of movement in 

the experience of learning. 

Thinking back to my school days, I vividly recall the frustration 

of sitting in an uncomfortable chair in a classroom much 

more than any of my lessons! I have found how helpful taking 

a walk or doing a bit of Yoga could be when trying to sort out 

a conundrum at work, but never made specific connections in 

using movement as a problem-solving tool. 

Luckily for thousands of school children, a gentleman named 

Paul Dennison, PhD., dedicated his life to studying the relationship 

between posture, body movement and brain function. 

Dennison was an educational therapist who along with his wife 

Gail developed the field of Educational Kinesiology in the 

1970s. The associated Brain Gym program, www.braingym.org, 

includes a series of physical movements that was originally 

developed as a method to assist the learning disabled to learn 

more effectively. I recently completed the first leg of the Brain 

Gym program and found that the movements are based on 

Yoga postures, Acupressure and Applied Kinesiology and generally, 

proper credit is given to the source of the movement. 

Like Yoga, Brain Gym has found application in many fields 

from education to athletics and the performing arts. Brain 

Gym movements are used widely in the British educational 

system, (although there has been recent controversy about 

the science behind some of their claims). Many of the exercises 

are to said to enhance neurological connections 

between both sides of the brain through the midline to 

enable better sensory integration. In my limited experience, 

I was able to verify that some of the exercises allowed an 

increased flow of energy in the areas specified in the literature 

as well as proving out positively in the more subjective 

‘before’ and ‘after’ reviews of the particular skill you are 

trying to improve. 

I have to admit I used to feel annoyance when I saw that Yoga 

was integrated within a ‘product,’ or that the emphasis was 

only on a part of the discipline and not the whole. But, I have 

come to realize that within each small part, the whole is capable 

of being revealed – the ground is prepared. For this, I can 

only be grateful and amazed! 

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In the Shade of the Yoga Tree; 

A LIVING CONTEXT FOR PRACTICE 

Without false 

Namasté. modesty, pride, 

or preconception we greet kindred 

spirits along the path, meeting them 

eye-to-eye and toe-to-toe because we 

are all concurrently students and 

teachers. While individuals experience 

life through different personalities, 

we share weighty truths allowing 

us to recognize one another. I know 

you as I know myself; all of us wish 

to give and receive respect; all of us 

hope to lead lives of security, not 

only in the material sense, but stepping 

forth into this universe secure in 

who we are and the works we accomplish; 

all sojourners desire love. My 

first teacher – poet, yogi, and mystic 

– Eden Ahbez, gifted the world with 

his song, Nature Boy. Many listen to 

the song failing comprehension that 

his lyric, The greatest thing you’ll ever 

learn is just to love and be loved in 

return, 1 is the call of a mystic who 

refers to ‘love’ in its broadest sense – 

the ability we have to recognize and 

value our connection with others and our 

universe. Realizing these truths, we bond 

across great divides of land and sea transcending 

culture and language. Namasté, 

meaning, your energy and my energy, honored 

as one energy. 

Our multifarious existence proceeds from a 

single subtle energy force, and the yoga 

tree, planted and nurtured by this energy, 

manifests itself through varied branches. 

Over five thousand years ago in northern 

India, the universe gave birth to the yoga 

tree blossoming into Buddhist branches, 

Hatha, Kriya, and Pranayama branches, 

Bhakti, Gnani, Kundalini, and Tantric 

branches, and fresh branches of Power 

Yoga developing in the West as we speak. 

Each branch evolves as an offshoot of the 

tree, and every branch exhibits its own 

style or energy frequency. Which branch 

do you practice 

Whichever style you find yourself committed 

to, you are practicing ‘subtle energy 

manipulation.’ 

by M.L. Youngbear Roth, R.Y.T., I.A.Y.T. 

“The living context for 

practicing various yoga 

branches is not to flee 

one’s existence, but to 

realize the profound 

experience of one’s path.” 

-AUTHOR 

Like my adventurous friends and teachers 

before me, Eden Ahbez and Arleta Soares, 

I am an energy maverick – a shaman learning 

and practicing styles from all over the 

great tree. Studying for thirty-five years 

accustoms one to leaps of faith, in the 

nature of a single underlying spiritual energy, 

or, as Buddhists say, “One’s true face.” 

The foundation of all yoga is energy. 

Understanding The Law of Subtle Energy 

Return is imperative and of great aid in the 

quality of our practice. Subtle energy 

return is that tie which binds us to an infinite 

universe unborn as the one undifferentiated 

energy and born as the manifested 

variety of energy frequencies composing 

our world. 

Refining individual energy frequencies and 

accomplishing a living return to the undifferentiated 

source is the purpose of yoga 

practice. Applying The Law of Subtle Energy 

Return, we seek to balance and evidence 

our individual energy frequency to reflect 

that energy of which we are manifest – the 

one original energy – our higher self 

or infinite mind, that which whispers 

to us when we are alone, ineffable 

spirit. The Law of Subtle Energy Return 

states that the energy frequency we 

manifest in our lives is the frequency 

of energy the universe returns to us. 

Through yoga we arrive at the notion 

that standing alone in front of our 

cave in the Himalayas and shouting 

any strange sound, that sound is precisely 

what will be echoed back; we 

learn energy manipulation, as those 

hermits in their lonely spiritual 

mounts learned and practiced for 

thousands of years. The Law of Subtle 

Energy Return refines The Mind, Body, 

Spirit Connection, and with practice 

this connection grows clear, direct, 

and powerful. The Mind, Body, Spirit 

Connection allows us to form a completed 

cycle of communication 

between the finite and infinite. 

“Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. 

It touches the life of man at 

every level, physical, mental, and 

spiritual. It is a practical method for 

making one’s life purposeful, useful 

and noble. ... 

...Yoga helps to keep one’s body and 

mind in tune with the essence, the 

soul, so that all three are blended 

into one. ...” 2 

- B.K.S. IYENGAR 

‘LIGHT ON THE YOGA SUTRAS 

OF PATANJALI’ 

If you’re sensing karmic law peeking around 

the tree, you are correct. However, I find 

the term karma largely misunderstood and 

incorrectly practiced. I believe this is in part 

due to karma, the word’s superficial, western 

definition, “As you sow, so shall you 

reap.” The Law of Subtle Energy Return, as a 

title, gives us a brief description and an 

immediate sense of arena. The title does 

not originate with me, but arrives via 

ancient Taoist doctrine. 

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