Jenna Sativa Yoga

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Meet Farm Girl Jen, a “flirty” 49-year-old mom who posts videos of herself working on the family farm (among other things) in her bikini. And surprisingly enough, thousands of people (mostly men) subscribe to her YouTube channel for that very reason (and only that). More proof that all you need to make money is an idea and an Internet connection. Or something like that.
Anyway, Jennifer Saucier claims to make as much as $100k a year with these videos, some of which require a pay-per-view charge. Yes, apparently you can do that on YouTube. We tried clicking on one of her videos and it prompted us to pay $1.99. The Internet is a fickle beast sometimes.
Back to Saucier, who lives with her husband Jason, and has two grown children, both of whom are thrilled she pulls in that kind of money . They’re probably millennials.
“The channel has really snowballed over the year. It started off as a bit of fun and my friends thought it was cool – now we have started making money from it and we want it to be full time.”
“I believe it’s important to stay fit. I do sit ups and push ups in the morning to get my metabolism going and then weight training and cross fit in the evening,’ she said. ‘Plus we always eat clean and buy local meat.”
Farm Girl Jen has 11 videos with more than 500,000 views. Most are simple and straightforward, “hey, look at me, I’m in a bikini pulling my tractor.” And “here I am pumping a shotgun.” Again, this is both brilliant and remarkably stupid. Kudos to her for taking advantage of men who have nothing better to do than sit in front of a computer and click away.
She’s a keen observer of how things work in America.

The Plan: this class is catered toward transitioning into the fall / winter season and focuses on how Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and nourishment can help you with that transition. We will start with a tea ceremony lead by Jenna. She will go into detail about the importance of loose leaf tea and how to go about steeping it. If you can, please purchase the following herbs for the class: milky oats (avena sativa) , rose hips (rosa canine) , hawthorn berry (crataegus monogyne) , cinnamon (stick or ground) . If you can’t get a hold of these herbs in time, you can use a herbal tea of your choice for the ceremony. After the ceremony we will go into a lecture about some Ayurvedic tips for a smooth transition into the fall season. We can include some recipes for some fall dishes as well. Then we will go into a meditation followed by our yoga practice: simple poses, supportive of the transition into fall. The practice will probably be about 40-60 minutes.
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By Timothy Burgin | September 12th, 2019

Timothy Burgin is a Kripalu & Pranakriya trained yoga instructor living and teaching in Asheville, NC. Timothy has studied and taught many styles of yoga and has completed a 500-hour Advanced Pranakriya Yoga training. Timothy has been serving as the Executive Director of YogaBasics.com since 2000. He has authored two yoga books and has written over 500 articles on the practice and philosophy of yoga. Timothy is also the creator of Japa Mala Beads and has been designing and importing mala beads since 2004.

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In the philosophy of Yoga, all matter in the universe arises from the fundamental substrate called Prakriti. From this ethereal Prakriti the three primary gunas (qualities of energy) emerge creating the essential aspects of all nature—energy, matter, and consciousness. These three gunas are tamas (darkness & chaos), rajas (activity & passion), and sattva (beingness & harmony). The awareness and conscious manipulation of the three gunas are a powerful way to reduce stress, increase inner peace and lead one towards enlightenment.
Guna is a Sanskrit word which translates as “quality, peculiarity, attribute, or tendency.” In yoga and Ayurveda, a guna is a tattva or element of reality that can affect our psychological, emotional and energetic states. The three gunas were created as an essential component of Sankhya philosophy but the gunas are now a major concept in most schools of Indian philosophy. The three gunas are described as being constantly influx and interacting with one another, in a playful state referred to as maya or illusion . The patterns of the interplay of the gunas can define the essential qualities of someone or something, and these patterns can highly influence the path and progress of life. For yoga practitioners , awareness of the gunas provides a GPS to allow us to make choices to be more balanced, peaceful and harmonious both on and off our mat. Cultivating the ability to identify and understand the nature of the gunas brings us closer to seeing the universal truth of oneness.
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All three gunas are always present in all beings and objects surrounding us but vary in their relative amounts. We humans have the unique ability to consciously alter the levels of the gunas in our bodies and minds. The gunas cannot be separated or removed in oneself but can be consciously acted upon to encourage their increase or decrease. A guna can be increased or decreased through the interaction and influence of external objects, lifestyle practices and thoughts.
Tamas is a state of darkness, inertia, inactivity, and materiality. Tamas manifests from ignorance and deludes all beings from their spiritual truths. Other tamasic qualities are laziness, disgust, attachment, depression, helplessness, doubt, guilt, shame, boredom, addiction, hurt, sadness, apathy, confusion, grief, dependency, ignorance.
Rajas is a state of energy, action, change, and movement. The nature of rajas is of attraction, longing and attachment and rajas strongly bind us to the fruits of our work. Other rajasic qualities are anger, euphoria, anxiety, fear, irritation, worry, restlessness, stress, courage, rumination, determination, chaos.
Sattva is a state of harmony, balance, joy, and intelligence. Sattva is the guna that yogis achieve towards as it reduces rajas and tamas and thus makes liberation possible. Other sattvic qualities are delight, happiness, peace, wellness, freedom, love, compassion, equanimity, empathy, friendliness, focus, self-control, satisfaction, trust, fulfillment, calmness, bliss, cheerfulness, gratitude, fearlessness, selflessness.
The mind’s psychological qualities are highly unstable and can quickly fluctuate between the different gunas. The predominant guna of the mind acts as a lens that affects our perceptions and perspective of the world around us. Thus, if the mind is in rajas it will experience world events as chaotic, confusing and demanding and it will then have a strong tendency to continue to react to events in a rajasic way. Therefore, for yogis to make progress along the path we must practice self-observation and discernment to witness and not react to the activities of the gunas. We must also have the inner-strength and willpower to consciously shift our thoughts and actions away from tamas and rajas towards sattvic balance and purpose.
To reduce tamas avoid tamasic foods, oversleeping, overeating, inactivity, passivity and fearful situations. Tamasic foods include heavy meats and foods that are spoiled, chemically treated, processed or refined. For more info read A Yogi’s Practical Guide to Balancing Tamas Guna .
To reduce rajas avoid rajasic foods, over-exercising, overwork, loud music, excessive thinking and consuming excessive material goods. Rajasic foods include fried foods, spicy foods, and stimulants. For more info read Reducing Rajas Guna: A Yogi’s How-To Guide .
To increase sattva reduce both rajas and tamas, eat sattvic foods and enjoy activities and environments that produce joy and positive thoughts. Sattvic foods include whole grains and legumes and fresh fruits and vegetables that grow above the ground. All of the yogic practices were developed to create sattva in the mind and body. Thus, practicing yoga and leading a yogic lifestyle strongly cultivates sattva .
All gunas create attachment and thus bind one’s self to the ego. “When one rises above the three gunas that originate in the body; one is freed from birth, old age, disease, and death; and attains enlightenment” ( Bhagavad Gita 14.20). While the yogi’s goal is to cultivate sattva, his or her ultimate goal is to transcend their misidentification of the self with the gunas and to be unattached to both the good and the bad, the positive and negative qualities of all life.
Check out our yoga quiz, What Is Your Primary Guna , to find out in just a few minutes if your general personality tends towards tamas, rajas, or sattva guna.
Garlic and ginger root, spicy curry, and cinnamon are rajasic due to there spicyness? What about carrots, beets, turnips; vegetables that are not spicy and grow underground? Fermentation counts as spoiling, processing and refining placing alchohol and kambucha in the tamas category, or no? How about culturing like cheese and yogurt? Seeds and nuts?
Have you ever looked into Ayureda? I won’t go into what Ayurveda is, however, if you do a little research and learn about what that is, you can learn about what constitution you are dominant in. (There are 3 which you can figure out by doing a simple survey)
Anyway, depending on your constitution, or dosha, you can learn about what kinds of foods to avoid so you are not aggravated and energetic.
I think basically though, just stay in tune with your body…EXPERIENCE what it feels like to eat these foods. How is your mind and energy affected? Don’t just eat heavy meats because you read so… eat heavy meats and perhaps feel why it’s not the best for you.
Everything in moderation too. This is important.
Everything in moderation…’? Surely that must include moderation itself which I interpret as periodic moderation,
excess and denial, or am I missing something?
I mean, don’t NOT just eat heavy meats because you read so.
Great website! I am teaching a workshop this weekend on the Gunas and elevating Sattva so was looking for reliable, well thought out explanations and came upon this site. Cool thing is I took a workshop with Tim Burgin about 5 years ago taught by Yoganand when he was in S. Carolina. I think it was “Asanas as Spiritual Doorways”. Anyway I am happy to have found this site and look forward to discovering more…. thanks Tim!! I love Kripalu and Pranakriya yoga as I feel it is based on the truest aspects of Yoga as a spiritual path.
Hi Lisa, I’m glad to hear from you and I’m happy you found this info helpful!
Tamas dont have to do with what you eat, many people arguing here that curd and cheese are equally fermented and spoiled as alcohol. Similarly, carrots or vegetables grow underground so they are bad. I don’t think its true, eating carrot, cheese, curd, or vegetables is not harmful, infact they are essestial. Some times in some dosha they can also be bad. But in my opinion tamsikta is a prakriti. And it is not formed by eating, rather it is relative. For something that lives in darkness, light can be tamasik, someone that lives in brightness dark can be tamasik. It is a nature and nature is relative.
I’m just starting out on my yoga teacher training journey and I found this piece really easy to read, highly informative and just what I was looking for. So thank you. And Namaste x
“The wise see clearly that all action is the work of the gunas. Knowing that which is above the gunas, they enter into union with Me.’ -B. Gita 14-19
Wonderful and thoughtful explanation of the gunas, Timothy. And your response to ‘exploring’ foods to experience the gunas is profound. Thank you for your openness and compassion. The Divine Mother has guided me, became my Guru in visions/dreams and Her guidance has no words to describe its impact. Kriya yoga is the path to God. But we must surrender what we have accepted and ‘think’ we are. Thank you for your energy kind Sir.
Om KaliMa!
This is really helpful knowledge that you provied thank you
I find your notion of the guna misleading as it states that yogis focuse purely on sattva to attain a pure state, when it is clear that a balance of the gunas is more appropriate to lead to a higher state…. a person focused purely on sattva will simply live in a fairy wonderland and be out of balance with the nature of life.
Really good explanation of Tri-Gunas. I want to add it in my phd report (citation).
I wanted to cite your blog in my research …needed the date of the article please
Mm….nice website to know about gunas.
No other website teach as in your website…..!!!…
I have been finding your articles, TB, so helpful deep, accessible, etc. Thank you so much for taking the time to publish your work!!
Thanks for the useful discussion of the three gunas of Prakriti. I think the explanation of balancing the gunas is essential even if we stuggle for a sattvic quality. So useful information as I try to include the theory of yoga into what I have experiendced of yin/yang and how to understand the different sides of the mind, It is great to study more and I am now attending a yoga instrutor course that is so interesting and challeging.
Is Pakriti made-up of the three Gunas?
Hey, this is some awesome info on the gunas! Thanks soooo much!!
Hi Tim, can I use some of the wonderful and easy to understand explanations of gunas that you have given in this article?
I’m glad you enjoyed the explanations. Use how exactly?
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