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Written by Sara Ivanhoe
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Remembering That You And The Planet Are One
 LA Yoga Magazine: December 2009-January 2010 We don ’t practice Yoga to escape the world. Rather than drawing away from the changing and challenging world around us, I believe we practice so that we can live powerfully and harmoniously with all existence, regardless of what type of Yoga we do. The word “Yoga” comes from the Sanskrit root yuj, to connect, to yoke, to be in union with. The union we are creating is not something that does not already exist. Yoga is the practice of remembering that we already are connected to something greater than ourselves.
We only have to look at the world around us with yogic eyes to see that our planet is Divinity embodied and she has a name: Prithivi, the Earth Goddess. The Goddess has a husband to whom she is married for all eternity – Vishnu the Sustainer, or he who pervades. Vishnu is the patron deity of Sustainability, the enduring capacity of planetary consciousness. When we lovingly consider the divine marriage of Goddess Prithivi and her husband Vishnu, we can understand the Earth and Sustainability must always be coupled, in order to experience balance. |
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Written by Felicia M. Tomasko, RN and Guest Contributors
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The Community Shows Up To Talk About Service, Committment And Giving
Gift-giving is a way to share our love. As we head into the holiday season, we can consider our relationships with each other and with the Earth as we choose gifts of all kinds that perpetuate sustainable relationships. |
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Written by Kerri Blackstone
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Fusionartist, Mystic Painter and Teacher
Gazing at any of Fusionartist Rassouli’s creative works provides a glimpse into the mystic loving eye with which he looks at the world. Rassouli has been a celebrated and innovative painter since childhood who later trained as an architect. Born in Isfahan, Iran, and currently living in Southern California, Rassouli has developed an artistic style known as Fusionart. He feels this art form is an expression of cosmic unity, a coming together of mysticism and artistic expression.
The development of Fusionart has been his entire life’s work, initiated in his childhood influenced by the historic and gorgeous home he grew up in, a mystic uncle and hours watching the whirling dervishes spin. Fusionart and his paintings blur the line between dream and reality – intentionally, since Rassouli sees the two as coexisting.
Rassouli is a prolific artist who has exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide. His work has appeared in and on the covers of a long list of publications and the Agape International Spiritual Center has showcased his paintings. Inspirations of the Heart is his most recent book; it contains a fusion of Rassouli’s evocative art with Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith’s meditative musings. Rassouli also creates murals in public space and one of his more recent, titled Angel of Unity, can be seen by people walking at the ocean end of Washington Avenue in Venice. The Angel, like many of the women Rassouli paints, is radiant, flowing, like the breath of the cosmos herself.
Understanding his view on life, love and painting may come best from his own words. He started his interview with LA YOGA magazine by talking about his painting Eternal Sun.
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