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Prayer Closets 2000 - 2005 Surya Namaskar, Salutations to the Sun, is a series of 12 postures performed in a single, graceful flow. Each movement is coordinated with the breath. This is a practice I had at sunrise at the time I made this series 1996- 1997. This is bowing to the sun – or another form of sun / fire worship as is my current sadhana. Seeing these pieces evokes desire to combine these two practices. The Sun Salutation is a prayer in motion. It allows us to use the body as an instrument of higher awareness, so that we can receive wisdom and knowledge. The ancient yogis taught that each of us replicates the world at large, embodying "rivers, seas, mountains, fields...stars and planets...the sun and moon" (Shiva Samhita, II.1-3). The outer sun, they asserted, is in reality a token of our own "inner sun," which corresponds to our subtle, or spiritual, heart. Here is the seat of consciousness and higher wisdom (jnana) and, in some traditions, the domicile of the embodied self (jivatman). Keep posted for new work involving my integration of Agnihotra as this is my current sadhana with a return to the Surya Namaskar series. |
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