5 Things I learned While Practicing Yoga
17 October 07 - 15:02
I admit, I am a novice at Yoga, even though I am proud to be able to say, that I regognize some of the poses by name now. At the same time, even though it has been a relatively short expierience with Yoga for me so far, I am suprised how much I enjoy each days practice, and how much I get out of the moments of movement.
Here are five things I have learned while practicing Yoga:
1. Focus
Practicing each move, through and with breath takes focus. Focus on detail, on the feeling of each pose, on balance, and on breath, live within. It so easy to loose focus of breath, and take it for granted.
2. Strength
Slow, steady movement, and stillness takes strength within and throughout the body. Letting go, instead of letting out equals strenght.
3. Calmness
The slowness of movement is calming, the center calms, the connection to myself and my core during practice calms, opens.
4. Connect
Calmness, stillnes and focus helped me connect with within, the air pushing through my lungs, the floor, my body. Body and mind are one, not each others enemy, but partners, and that connection is calming and healing.
5. Release
Relaxing into the poses as well as through the calmness is a release of what is weight and heaviness in life. The release opens to let in more of what I want in my expierience and cleanses the unwanted.
Yoga, try it. You might be suprise how good it makes you feel, and how much you learn.
Namaste
one comment:
Beautifully put Claudia!! I know that as time goes by you will deepen into each of these experiences. You may find you slip away from them as well…but no worries the mat is always there for you and you can always come back to it again and again = like an endless ocean.
Namaste
Yogasmer () - 21 10 07 - 14:42
