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ISHTA Blog ISHTA yoga masters Wendy Newton and Peter Ferko are honored to bring ISHTA Yoga to Prospect Heights, Brooklyn! Beginning April 23, Wendy and Peter will teach weekly ISHTA classes, workshops, and the ISHTA Bridge Program at The Table, their newly reconfigured space for arts, yoga, and community. ISHTA Brooklyn at The Table is located at  When you meditate, I want you to be hopeless. It may sound strange, but I simply want you to lose that need to drive forward that we all have. Instead of focusing on expectations and outcomes, I want you to witness what’s going on in your mind at this moment. Some days it will be amazing — you’ll sit down and your mind will go quiet. Other days you’ll feel like you’re having a mental throw up — all your emotions and thoughts will come up. But it’s absolutely worth it to achieve the ability to sit and just be.  The goal of meditation practice is to be able, ultimately, to sit quietly and feel in tune with your most authentic self. In life, it’s very easy to get distracted and confused — to think that you are whatever is filling your mind. The mind is great at creating chatter! The ways that you label yourself — Doctor, Mother, Businessperson, Yogi — these are all just distractions from who you really are. Whatever your mind seems to turn you into, remember that these labels and thoughts are not who you truly are.  As you move this month from winter to spring, make a smooth transition by letting go of the cold weather comforts you no longer need. Reenergize yourself using the tools of ISHTA (Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda) to do some spring cleaning with your space and with yourself.  You may notice that the ISHTA website looks different than the last time you visited us online. We are so proud to launch the new ISHTA site, and thought we’d highlight a few of our favorite features to celebrate.  We are thrilled and grateful to be featured in the latest AlignYo newsletter! Check it out for an interview with Alan, an overview of Sarah’s basics class, and a special deal for AlignYo NYC readers!  Avidya, or belief patterns, are our problem on this plane of existence. The beliefs that we have are not real, yet we make them our reality. What you believe today you will most likely throw out in ten years’ time, saying, “I was wrong.” It is only via dreams and through the mind that we form beliefs. In Sanskrit, the word avidya means ignorance. It is ignorance of the truth and ignorance of what is really at the basis of our being. The belief patterns we hold make us ignorant of the truth, of our spirit, of our soul, and of our essence.  Dear ISHTA Yoga Community, After having relocated to London this past summer, I see it as more than sheer coincidence that my first return to New York City has happened at such a singular point in our history. Nor is it lost on me that the workshop I am here to teach on November 8th is called Jyothi: Finding Your Joyful Inner Light, at a time when many of our neighbors have been in sadness and in darkness for so many nights in a row. For those very reasons, I have decided to make this workshop a charity event.  We are all born from a unified field intelligence that is beyond what we can imagine. It is infinite. We cannot conceive of infinity because our minds create boundaries. We are born from this energy, and our spirit is what causes us to be here and exist. When spirit is occupying us, we are conscious, aware, and alive. The trouble is that our consciousness, the expression of our spirit, becomes bombarded with vrittis.  We all have different personalities. All day we put on the various masks we’ve learned to develop since when we were babies. The more we put on these masks, the more they become who we think we are. So, how do we integrate these different personalities? |
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