Yoga is not all about the asanas or body
postures. Yes, many people come to yoga
class to practice the body postures and to increase strength and improve
flexibility and balance, but there is more to practicing asanas. The yoga poses are used as a tool to calm the
mind so we can reach deeper inward to the essence of our being.
Asanas give us the opportunity to explore and
control our emotions, concentration, intent, faith and unity between our physical
body and ethereal (energy) body.
Practicing asanas challenges us and opens the physical body bringing
harmony with all the unseen elements of our being. Yoga poses help us explore our mental
attitudes and strengthen our will while we learn to release and move into a
state of grace that comes from creating balance between our material world and
spiritual experience. (W. Doran, The
Eight Limbs, The Core of Yoga).
The asanas and pranayama (breath control) help
quiet our mind. The yoga postures are
practiced before meditation for that reason to ground us and foster awareness
and harmony with our mind, body and spirit.
That is why it is important to take some time to meditate or rest in
shavasana after practicing asanas to experience that wonderful connection of
peaceful healing energy.
So keep practicing those beautiful asanas and
start to notice how your tree grows!
Namaste,
Betsy and Jesse
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