@samcyph
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Isha Institutes of Inner Sciences offers all paths of Yoga. They cost and usually require travel to different states as most programs dont come to Oregon, but the programs are ran with military level precision, and will completely transform your life weather you go for physical, mental, emotional or whatever aspect of your system. If you go to the USA Ashram, its lowkey cult vibes, but not in a militias way. You can always leave if you want lol. But they teach the purest & most true to the Yogic Science I’ve ever come across.
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I grew up in Southeast Portland. Everywhere from the willamette river in Sellwood to 82nd and Foster were my stomping grounds. One of my closest friends and I spent a lot of our childhood doing hoodrat things with our older brothers/cousins. Staying out in the streets til 4 AM, drinking and smoking at such a young age provided a lot of heated and petty moments fueled by passion which usually ended up in us fighting in some shape or form. My close friend who lived through all this with me was passionate about boxing. He knew all the technical things. I was pretty ignorant to it all but being as close as we were, we squared up a lot . We used to skip PE in middle school and beat the shit out of eachother in the locker room. I hated going against him cuz unlike a lot of people, he had technique backing him so he usually whooped my ass. A combination of that and us doing bad street shit as kids made me decent at fighting, in hindsight, WHEN I was angry or had that fire of passion triggered inside me. I never really dove too deep into the technicals, and as time went on I encountered buddhism when I was around 16. I dove as deep as I could into that for about a year, while still keeping my door open to other “spiritual” guides. But for the most part I was following Buddhist teachings. There were sporadic periods where I would renounce a lot of my “worldly desires” or withdraw from pleasurable things just to see how far I could go with removing my “attachments”. It all sounds funny to me now. But that time in my life pretty much completely evaporated my will to hurt anyone. My journey brought me elsewhere and I’m no longer buddhist, or a spiritual philosophiser of any sorts. The most spiritual thing I feel I did was stop being spiritual. Now my main focus is how do I become MORE alive? Lol anyways thats all just side story to lead me to say, I still have a fiery passion but my will is hardly in the direction of harming people. Which is good, but due to this, I’m not sure how well I’d hold up in a fight these days. That uncertainty is what inspired me to want to get back into martial arts. I wanted to do something different that the masses dont really know anything about. Wing Chun attracted me because the IP Man movies are fly but also because of how much finesse and control is in the art. Boxing is a lot of BOOM POW SMASH. And that can go on for a while. With what I’ve witnessed so far in wing chun it’s like you blink and you’re already dead. I’m happy to be here with all that I’m learning. It’s another passion for me now along with the other artistic things I do. I want to get to the point where I can control any type of physical altercation if it occurs and protect my loved ones from ever being hurt if I’m present. With all that said some of my old fighting spirit is revived since I joined and I’m too hyped to start sparring.
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