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How Yoga feels like
The various asanas are very precise tools. Each yoga posture or asana is a specific shape or template in which the stretching occurs. The idea is to use these tools or shapes to help create more space in your body. Your body is the visible and tangible portion of your energy field, and each pose is like a map into specific area of that field. You create more space by undoing the tight spots, releasing tensions. During practice you are deliberately roving through your body looking for the contracted, sore or painful areas. By using the various poses as maps into yourself, you then gently stretch them, press and squeeze them, breath in to them, relax and release them and thereby ease away the tension and open the contracted area. This is extremely enjoyable once you get a feeling for it. All this poses done slowly, carefully, with sensitivity and feeling enjoying what you are doing. Yoga is a loving gesture toward yourself, and when you are really weed-free, the poses will feel clean, and will be the experience of free-flowing, unobstructed energy. Asanas have powerful therapeutic values. They improve circulation and glandular functions. They retard ageing, increase your sensitivity, they enhance your look, your posture, your skin and muscle tone. They increase the strength, stamina, and flexibility you need for other activities. It is relaxing. It is energizing, healing. It is exhilarating. Yoga practice will make you happy. The difference between an asana and a simple stretch exercise is that we focus our mind awareness completely in the body, so we can move as one and we can listen what the body tells us. We are not doing work on the body, we become the body. Asana practice is a reunion between the usually separated body and mind. |
स तु दीर्घकालनैरन्तर्यसत्कारासेवितो दृढभूमिः॥१४॥
sa tu dIraghakaalanairantaryasatkaaraasevito dRuDhabhUmiH
It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruption and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed. (The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Sutra I.14) translated by Desikachar
sa tu dIraghakaalanairantaryasatkaaraasevito dRuDhabhUmiH
It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruption and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed. (The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Sutra I.14) translated by Desikachar
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