Titillating Yoga, Drenched in Sweat and Breath

"Spring in nature is the same as Spring in Man," as e.e. cummings so magnificently reminds us in his poems.  It seems that the yoga community at large is reflecting much of this Spring fever.    Tribeca's Kula Yoga sent out a lovely e-newlsetter yesterday that starts with the words "naughty.  good. naughty.  good," and invites its community of yogis for a hedonistic pleasure-filled retreat down in Florida.  Looks very tempting, and many people I know who have indulged with Kula Yoga down in Miami have nothing but rave reviews to report.  Here's a pic of their version of "Ardha Chandrasana" in the pool to prove it.

Then I opened up Rodale News' Yoga Lifeline e-newsletter with its provocative title "Downward Doggie Style," and its 3 articles on how Yoga can majorly improve your sex life.   And note their pic on the right of 2 "yogis" in bed.  Hmmmm. As a biologist, I studied reproduction and nature's romping, rollicking, orgasmic love of perpetuating itself for many years.  Biology and nature are all about sex and survival. 

And I will have to note that Spring is indeed in the AIR.  But it's always a tremendously great to remember that we are both civilized beings, capable of evolution, as well as creatures of nature.  So the higher truths must permeate all this consciously drunken frolics into the celebration of the body and sharing it with someone else. 

As an advertiser, I know that sex sells.  So it's important to discern truth from hyperbole.  Ah - another plug for the power of meditation...Ananda Ashram...true meditation...where one learns discernment between truth and hype.

But by all means, enjoy, the process of consciously exploring the bod.