Mudra of Consciousness.
(Gesture of Consciousness)
(Gesture of Consciousness)
WELCOME TO THE COURSE
THANK YOU for signing up. I look forward to sharing with you, this ten-week journey of living the conscious life through ten guiding principles and envisioning and embodying these principals through the practice of SoulCollage® and through Yoga.
Debrah Gai Lewis, SoulCollage® Facilitator (since 2011) and Yoga Teacher (since 2003)
THANK YOU for signing up. I look forward to sharing with you, this ten-week journey of living the conscious life through ten guiding principles and envisioning and embodying these principals through the practice of SoulCollage® and through Yoga.
Debrah Gai Lewis, SoulCollage® Facilitator (since 2011) and Yoga Teacher (since 2003)
Purpose of the Course
To discover more about yourself and the way you are living your life, and if this is in alignment with the way you want to be living your life. In this course you will discover:
To discover more about yourself and the way you are living your life, and if this is in alignment with the way you want to be living your life. In this course you will discover:
- how the yamas and niyamas are an essential part of authentic yoga practice
- how the yamas and niyamas can help you live your life in a more conscious, caring and compassionate way
- how the yamas and niyamas can positively transform your personal behaviour and your interactions and relationships with all beings
- how SoulCollage® can be used to further understand, envision and embody the yamas and niyamas and how you can discover your wisdom, change your world.
Content and Process of the Course
Overall, the course consists of:
Process:
Upon your registration, you are given access to the Course Introduction PDF. Then, each Friday morning (Australian time) for ten consecutive weeks you will be given access to a PDF, audio and/or video files, via my SoulLight website (this website) on a specific yama and then niyama, in the order as listed below ('The Course'). As soon as I have loaded these files, I will also alert you via our closed and private Facebook page. Click here to join (optional) our closed and private Facebook page for the course, our Sharing Circle. Only myself and those people enrolled in this course have access to this Facebook page.
During the week you read the PDF and consider the specific yama or niyama in relationship to your life, respond to the questions asked, do the suggested practices (some of which are provided to you via audio and/or video files), and journal your responses. This all remains personal to you unless you wish to share with other course members and myself on the closed Facebook page, membership of which you have been offered when you joined the course.
Each week, making a SoulCollage® card for the yama or niyama is one of the practices. It is optional, but highly recommended, that you post an image of your SoulCollage® card, together with its reading on the Facebook page, as this is a way of sharing your creation and its wisdom with myself and the other participants of the course. In this way, our closed and private Facebook page acts as our Sharing Circle.
Overall, the course consists of:
- An introductory overview of the yamas and niyamas - the Ten Guiding Principles - and their place in Raja Yoga, via a PDF document
- A definition and explanation of each of the yamas and niyamas, via a total of 10 PDF documents provided weekly
- SoulCollage® practices - creating and reading a SoulCollage® card for each of the yamas and niyamas - the Ten Guiding Principles
- Yoga and meditation practices for each of the yamas and niyamas, via audio and/or YouTube videos
Process:
Upon your registration, you are given access to the Course Introduction PDF. Then, each Friday morning (Australian time) for ten consecutive weeks you will be given access to a PDF, audio and/or video files, via my SoulLight website (this website) on a specific yama and then niyama, in the order as listed below ('The Course'). As soon as I have loaded these files, I will also alert you via our closed and private Facebook page. Click here to join (optional) our closed and private Facebook page for the course, our Sharing Circle. Only myself and those people enrolled in this course have access to this Facebook page.
During the week you read the PDF and consider the specific yama or niyama in relationship to your life, respond to the questions asked, do the suggested practices (some of which are provided to you via audio and/or video files), and journal your responses. This all remains personal to you unless you wish to share with other course members and myself on the closed Facebook page, membership of which you have been offered when you joined the course.
Each week, making a SoulCollage® card for the yama or niyama is one of the practices. It is optional, but highly recommended, that you post an image of your SoulCollage® card, together with its reading on the Facebook page, as this is a way of sharing your creation and its wisdom with myself and the other participants of the course. In this way, our closed and private Facebook page acts as our Sharing Circle.
The Resources You Need to Participate in the Course
For SoulCollage:
- Access to the internet in order to use this and other websites, Facebook and YouTube, and to download files to your own device(s).
- Adobe Reader or another PDF reader on your device, in order to read each week's PDF.
For SoulCollage:
- A selection of at least 30 images from magazines, old books, or any other paper-based resource that you feel strongly drawn to.
- 10 or more 5” x8” blank mat-board cards. You can purchase the SoulCollage® branded ones, and other SoulCollage® products, from Hanford Mead Publishers in the US, or you can order them from, eg., a Picture Framing shop, or you can create your own blank cards using thick cardboard or similar.
- Glue or glue sticks.
- Scissors – one small pair, one medium pair, and one larger pair are useful.
- Cutting blade and cutting mat (optional).
- 5” x8” frame to use for selecting a desired piece of large imagery. You can create this yourself out of a piece of cardboard or old manila folder.
New to SoulCollage®?
This course is your opportunity to create SoulCollage® cards for ten guiding principles that will become important, meaningful and inspirational Neters (guides, allies and challengers) in your new or existing SoulCollage®deck. Do not worry if you are new to SoulCollage®. By visiting and exploring the SoulCollage® website and by watching the following videos, you will have enough information to assist you to create your ten guiding principles SoulCollage® cards. In addition, as a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator, I am available to help you if, when and where needed throughout the course, either by phone, email, Messenger or FaceTime (This said, I do highly recommend, that at some point in time, you enrol in a face-to-face SoulCollage® class or workshop led by myself or another trained SoulCollage® Facilitator).
SoulCollage Website: www.soulcollage.com
Explore this comprehensive official website and all its rich resources and this will give you a great insight into the wonder that is SoulCollage®. This page of the website, “Making a SoulCollage®Card in 5 Easy Steps”, by Sue Gelber, is very helpful for newbies to the process. Be aware however, that there are numerous methods of making a SoulCollage® card and we all find our favourite way.
SoulCollage® Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery & Community by Seena B. Frost
This wonderful book (194 pages) by the creator of SoulCollage®, is available in paperback and Kindle formats from amazon.com or from the publishers Hanford Mead in the US. It is the most comprehensive guide to SoulCollage® available anywhere.
"Create Your First SoulCollage® Card" (YouTube Video, 19:32 mins): youtu.be/2_sNXEp_1Jc
SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainer Catherine Anderson demonstrates how to create your first SoulCollage® card, using her own process and sharing the meaning behind her cards. Learn how to create your own deck of SoulCollage®cards and find other resources and support.
“SoulCollage®: Making a Card” (YouTube Video, 3.33 mins) https://youtu.be/wcFN9TeIa8k
Cat Caracelo, SoulCollage® Facilitator, Life Coach, Artist and Guidess, shares an easy, intuitive pathway to exploring your deep wisdom. Learn to make a SoulCollage®card and see how it can become part of your practice!
We will also be reading our SoulCollage® cards and I will give you guidance on this process as we progress through the course.
This course is your opportunity to create SoulCollage® cards for ten guiding principles that will become important, meaningful and inspirational Neters (guides, allies and challengers) in your new or existing SoulCollage®deck. Do not worry if you are new to SoulCollage®. By visiting and exploring the SoulCollage® website and by watching the following videos, you will have enough information to assist you to create your ten guiding principles SoulCollage® cards. In addition, as a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator, I am available to help you if, when and where needed throughout the course, either by phone, email, Messenger or FaceTime (This said, I do highly recommend, that at some point in time, you enrol in a face-to-face SoulCollage® class or workshop led by myself or another trained SoulCollage® Facilitator).
SoulCollage Website: www.soulcollage.com
Explore this comprehensive official website and all its rich resources and this will give you a great insight into the wonder that is SoulCollage®. This page of the website, “Making a SoulCollage®Card in 5 Easy Steps”, by Sue Gelber, is very helpful for newbies to the process. Be aware however, that there are numerous methods of making a SoulCollage® card and we all find our favourite way.
SoulCollage® Evolving: An Intuitive Collage Process for Self-Discovery & Community by Seena B. Frost
This wonderful book (194 pages) by the creator of SoulCollage®, is available in paperback and Kindle formats from amazon.com or from the publishers Hanford Mead in the US. It is the most comprehensive guide to SoulCollage® available anywhere.
"Create Your First SoulCollage® Card" (YouTube Video, 19:32 mins): youtu.be/2_sNXEp_1Jc
SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainer Catherine Anderson demonstrates how to create your first SoulCollage® card, using her own process and sharing the meaning behind her cards. Learn how to create your own deck of SoulCollage®cards and find other resources and support.
“SoulCollage®: Making a Card” (YouTube Video, 3.33 mins) https://youtu.be/wcFN9TeIa8k
Cat Caracelo, SoulCollage® Facilitator, Life Coach, Artist and Guidess, shares an easy, intuitive pathway to exploring your deep wisdom. Learn to make a SoulCollage®card and see how it can become part of your practice!
We will also be reading our SoulCollage® cards and I will give you guidance on this process as we progress through the course.
New to Yoga?
Do not worry if you are new to yoga and have never read about it or practiced it before. This course does not require that. You may like to consider and experience this course as your introduction to yoga and that you are building a solid base for possible further practice.
Even if you have previously practiced yoga, for example yoga postures or meditation, you may not yet have explored the yamas and niyamas. This course is your chance to do so.
If you are a yoga practitioner who has explored the yamas and niyamas before, this is your opportunity to revise and perhaps gain new insights into them.
In addition, as a trained and accredited Yoga Teacher with over 15 years experience, I am available to help you if, when and where needed throughout the course, either by phone, email, Messenger or FaceTime.
Do not worry if you are new to yoga and have never read about it or practiced it before. This course does not require that. You may like to consider and experience this course as your introduction to yoga and that you are building a solid base for possible further practice.
Even if you have previously practiced yoga, for example yoga postures or meditation, you may not yet have explored the yamas and niyamas. This course is your chance to do so.
If you are a yoga practitioner who has explored the yamas and niyamas before, this is your opportunity to revise and perhaps gain new insights into them.
In addition, as a trained and accredited Yoga Teacher with over 15 years experience, I am available to help you if, when and where needed throughout the course, either by phone, email, Messenger or FaceTime.
THE COURSE
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INTRODUCTION
The Ten Guiding Principles There are many principles by which we can transform and live and act as conscious human beings. Many of these principles are expounded in universal religious and spiritual traditions. When one looks at the principles of various traditions, we find that even though the words used may be different, the principles are always the same or very similar. This is because the founders and/or teachers of these traditions, through their own experience, have come to know what principles work! The Ten Guiding Principles we will be exploring in this course are the Yamas and Niyamas of Raja Yoga. Click on this file to download your introductory PDF 
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YAMAS
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WEEK 1: NON-VIOLENCE (Ahimsa)
Non-violence is the first of the Yamas - self-disciplines or self-restraints. It is the main or root virtue from which all others arise. Non-violence refers not only to physical violence, but also to violence of words or thoughts. What we think and say about ourselves or others can be as powerful and destructive as any physical attempt to harm. To practice non-violence is to be constantly vigilant, to observe ourselves in interaction with others and to notice our thoughts, words, intentions and actions or deeds. Practicing true non-violence springs from the clear intention to act with clarity and love. This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time) Click on this file to download your Non-violence PDF Links to practices outlined in the PDF: Practice #1: Click on this audio file to practice the guided Breath Meditation (by Debrah Gai Lewis, 5:30 mins): Practice #2: Click on this video file to listen to and chant the mantra Lokāḥ Samastāḥ Sukhino Bhavantu (by Deval Premal and Miten, with Manose, YouTube (10:37 mins) |
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WEEK 2: TRUTHFULNESS (Satya)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 3: NON-STEALING (Asteya)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 4: MODERATION (Brahmacharya)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 5: NON-HOARDING (Aparigraha)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
NIYAMAS
WEEK 6: PURITY (Cleanliness)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 7: CONTENTMENT (Santosha)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 8: AUSTERITY; ZEAL (Tapas)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 9: SELF-STUDY (Swadhyaya)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
WEEK 10: DEVOTION TO A HIGHER POWER (Isvarapranidhana)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
This PDF will be available for download from here on Friday ???? at ??? (Australian time)
