EP 20 - Yoga, Love and Grief with Durga Julia Sánchez

In this week’s episode we are joined by the eternal warm love presence of Durga Julia Sánchez, musician, yogini, and inspiration. Durga speaks to us from her home country of Colombia of her extraordinary heart-connection with her beloved teacher and husband Ramgiri, and the immense process of courage that is calling us all to open our heart to one another.

And of the heart-wrenching process of grief that we must go through when that love transitions from in the body to the formless, as it will for us all. And the role of Yoga in all of this, in the life of a devotee.

Gratitude to you, Durga, for this gift of clarity and honesty from within that grieving process of ‘losing’ one’s Beloved and navigating that pain.

We feel and invoke the blessing presence of Baba Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji), guru to Ram Dass, Ram Giri, Krishna Das and so many others. Mark and Durga discuss how Yoga serves the devotees of such extraordinary beings, as the practical response to grace, and to conduct their gifts… which are always given, but are they being received?

And reflect on past times sharing Yoga with Ramgiri and Durga in the US and the connection with the work of Heartsourcing, the enduring project of Ram Giri’s work which is now continued by Durga.

Learn more about Ramgiri’s lifework in his book, “HeartSourcing”, foreword by Ram Das, which Durga is currently working on translating to make available in Spanish.

https://store.lamafoundation.org/products/heartsourcing-by-ramgiri-braun-ph-d

https://www.facebook.com/HeartSourcing/

“All conflict is in truth a burning away of conflict itself. Pain makes us tired of pain, and although the confused mind revels in its distortions, there is a fundamental sanity in everyone that bides its time, but will not be denied.” — Ramgiri, 2018

Private whole-body prayer yoga lessons via Zoom in Spanish — email juliamsanchez@gmail.com for availability.

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