Answers to Questions

Does puse work everytime, everyday? —Pepper

Yes. But not with everybody.
Puse comes when it wants to.

I googled "Pure Puse Yoga" and you're the only one I found. No matter how you spell it, it's just another silly, dumb ploy to objectify women. —Roni

It's in the commitment.

I make the commitment to come to class but my body still aches for puse. I thought this would be perfect because I have a really bad knee which hurts when I stretch it wrong. So I went to the physical class, one of the ones the mobile yogi teaches & I think it was the third time, in the corpse, it all flowed through me, it soaked in every cell, but sometimes I don't go & I want to feel that feeling again. What can I do? Can I get that at home? —Debbie

Set the intention to have it flow through you. It sounds like you need to listen to your own body and commit to class until you can take it home with you.

My yogi told me that he asked for students and said we were who showed up. You advertise for students and say we don't need to come to class. What's wrong with you? —Krishnakali

Pure Puse Yoga tells us we are in charge of our own experience. Show up for that. Your schedule may not allow you to leave home.

I was assisting at a yoga class and I suggested to this gentleman how to get more out of a posture he was in & he snapped at me: "I put this tension in my body, I'll release it at my own speed." Did I do something wrong? I was only trying to help. —Katie

When something happens to a person emotionally or physically, they tend to clench and this saves somewhere in their body as prana. Everything is prana. So when we breathe into a holding & focus with our mind's eye, when it releases, we feel that prana as a delightful experience. Without this, who would do yoga? Your gentleman was having his own experience at his own pace.

Can you ever over do it with puse? —Trey kaon do

Never with pure puse. It's a portal to the ancient practice of freedom and properity.

Can I hit the puse too hard? I want to start hitting it every night —Bob

There's no reason to hit pure puse at all. Let it come and envelope you.

I found this painting and it looks similar to the art posted. Do you know anything about this charming painting? —Jean

Your painting is titled “Masquerading,” part of the collection by the same painter, an acrylic, circa 1997. A fine example of his unique playful style.

So is this one of them? Is this worth anything? —Lenny

It appears to be authentic but we can't establish value until after the artist dies. Good luck.

I downloaded one of the pictures and put it on my wall. I look at it when I start yoga—it makes me smile; surely that’s worth something? Is there any way I can buy either of these paintings? —Shirley

Why would you need to buy what you already have? Your smile means you received the essence.

I'm in the education field and I'd like to know how not explaining postures and correcting them can help beginners. —Sharin

Immersion. Just as a small child learns to speak long before their minds develop to learn techniques from instruction, the yoga student will feel the sensation of union (yoga) without the encumbrance of correctness. Right and wrong, and looking good are removed from their experience and they're free to evolve naturally, aided by the universal intelligence of prana.

I clicked the pronunciation and it just kept saying "puse, puse, puse," over and over again. I asked one of my straight friends to see what they thought and they told me everyone loves the sound of "puse." I'm gay and I don't understand the fascination with that word. —Cliff

The reason that people came out and publicly declared their homosexuality was to change the assumption that everyone's straight. That has been accomplished. The world knows there are different sexual preferences, just as there are different posture preferences. When the prana which floods us from holding a posture and focusing on the sensations becomes the reason for doing yoga, "puse" will become your favorite word, and pure puse your favorite experience.

How can pure puse help us transcend feelings of rejection? —Rebecca

In Pure Puse Yoga, we embrace our feelings as we focus on our sensations with our minds. Rejection is a projection, always an illusion.

In my quest for answers, I have allowed myself to observe all is for all to perceive you are always changing.
Care to share your views, yogi? —Chad

Change is illusion.
The illusion of change is the manifestation of love, showing a different smile... and opportunity... and finger.

If you are a western yogi, does that mean you'll tell me the secret to happiness without all the spiritual mumbo jumbo?

Shanti, shanti, shanti
The secret to happiness is too easy to do, unless you're an honest person. The secret is no secret, simply: only be the way you are so that your behavior can never be questioned. Live in your behavior and there will never be a question of right and wrong. You're the only person that is you. You can't be wrong, you're the only one.

I love my children. I love my husband and my family. How come if I'm doing everything a good person should, they are still mean to me?

Beyond the obvious jealousies, attachments, beyond heredity and environment, there's karma. We come in with the karma of past experiences and this is the guiding force, the constant in our lives to be done, to be lived and done again. If we were mean and callous, and heartless in the past, no matter our exemplary behavior, we will be visited from all angles by this karma which one may find sad and discomforting. The trick, the answer to your question, the answer to all our questions, is to continue to find ways to accept and open our hearts to that which we long to pay back, erase, and forever live our remorse. Go into that hopelessness which you can't stand to embrace the karma and if you really want to assert yourself, do that karma's karma in an act of goodwill and a spirit of which you may know will amount to nothing. Suffering is to make room for love in spite of everything, every karma and every fad.

I'm so glad that the internet allows free info like this! —Makalah

We are all glad. Love is wonderful.

I'm tired of you guys making up websites about some silly yoga with a ridiculous name as if you have anything to say. I'm tired! —Linda

Sounds like you have pranic fatigue syndrome.

If rejection is illusion, is then affection illusion too? They both feel so real. —R.Suzanne

Well, everything's real: it's real illusion.
When we choose to view life with duality, nothing's real: whether we see it as good/bad, positive/negative, it's the same. Acceptance is beyond duality, where everything is love, and none of this matters.

If you do your suffering willingly, is it really suffering? If acceptance is beyond suffering, how come when we choose suffering it isn't wonderful? —Nancy

When we choose suffering it is wonderful, but it isn't; it's how it's chosen: we want suffering to be miserable, so that's what we get.

Will my commitment to Puse allow me to break the cycle of karma that produces suffering, death and rebirth? —Virginia

We are all born fully enlightened in our natural human state. By embracing Puse, we welcome all our karma and all dread of the concept of suffering dissipates. Death and rebirth become what Puse offers us and if that's so, they become wonderful. Brahman must be close at hand.

I have a question about chi (puse). Is it stronger in children and in the young or is it something that remains the same strength throughout our lifetime? Thank you very much for your time. –Ginny

We are all born with our unique vibration, which connects to all vibrations, especially rocks, the earth. And because we’re always children, our chi remains inexhaustible. Loss of connection gives the illusion of less chi.

Is pure puse yoga karma yoga? –Devon

Pure Puse Yoga is bhakti, raja and karma yoga. Each participant engaging from the direction that life-serving karma offers. The devotion is the lubricant that allows us to let go again and again. Raja invites the participation of the ego-mind in this devotion. Each of our karmas is the door through which we enter into this yogic union.

If we surrender to suffering is it still suffering? –R. Suzanne

Isn't suffering the illusion of lack of control? Awakening to consciousness in your own words creates existential petting.

Is there different puse for different weathers and seasons? –Chipmunk

When puse starts flowing, it flows year round in all the places where it’s needed and becomes available to everyone.

Puse is Spanish for "to have set" always our intention to have union (yoga).