108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 41 – Cutivating a home Yoga practice……
Cultivating a home Yoga practice
presents a solution to an obstacle.
Maintaining a home Yoga practice
presents an obstacle to a solution.
Posts archive: 108 Yoga Practice Pointers Series
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 40 – At times getting to the practice mat……
At times getting to the practice mat
is more about exercising Mind over Matter.
In other words getting there because of the Mind.
At other times getting to the practice mat
is more about exercising Matter over Mind.
In other words getting there in spite of the Mind.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 39 – Yoga is not so much about what we bring to the practice mat……
In the novice phase of our relationship with personal practice,
Yoga is not so much about what we bring to the practice mat,
it’s more about what we take away from the practice mat.
A sign of a maturing in our relationship with personal practice,
is that we accept more responsibility for what we bring to the practice mat
being a determining factor in what we take away from the practice mat.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 38 – Our Yoga practice needs to evolve….
Our Yoga practice needs to evolve,
amongst other longer term unfoldings,
towards a live-in personalised relationship,
rather than just a go-out group class affair.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 37 – Is our Yoga Practice an offering to the Ātma……
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 36 – Once you lose the breath in Āsana……
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 35 – Because I am too wired to practice I don’t practice……
Because I am too wired to practice I don’t practice.
Because I don’t practice I am too wired to practice.
Because I am too wired to practice I don’t practice.
Because…….
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 34 – Because I am too tired to practice I don’t practice…..
Because I am too tired to practice I don’t practice.
Because I don’t practice I am too tired to practice.
Because I am too tired to practice I don’t practice.
Because…….
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 33 – Life is often divided into agendas, two of which are headed “chore” and “reward”……
Life is often divided into agendas,
two of which are headed “chore” and “reward”.
Try to keep some room on the latter list for your practice
in the same way that you would greet an old friend.
Take time in their company and return to your everyday life rejuvenated
and better able to embrace your surroundings.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 32 – We can make a profession out of the myriad of ways we use Āsana….
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 31 – We can make a career out of finding a myriad of ways……
We can make a profession out of the myriad of ways we find
to stay too busy to make time for home practice.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 30 – Prāṇa is the élan vital……
Prāṇa is the élan vital.
It is the mover and the sustainer of the body in all living beings.
Because of this all pervasive movement and irrepressible vitality,
it is also hard to keep reined in through the ten sensory horses.
When the personalised field of Prāṇa becomes unreined,
it transforms into Vāta and the system becomes disturbed.
The primary practice in Yoga to minimise the
conversion of Prāṇa into Vāta is Prāṇāyāma.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 29 – Are we confusing the maturation of our Āsana practice with the maturation of our Yoga practice?
Are we confusing the maturation of our Āsana practice
with the maturation of our Yoga practice?
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 28 – Haṭha Yoga is about Nāḍī Śodhana…….
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 27 – One of the primary roles for Āsana is to make the spine a fit vehicle for Prāṇāyāma.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 26 – Yoga Practice is neither about trying……
Yoga Practice is neither about trying
to get rid of something undesirable,
nor attain something desirable.
It is something that can happen
in spite of something undesirable,
or in spite of something desirable.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 25 – Some are satisfied with what Āsana brings them.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 24 – The more you are able to practice……
The more you are able to practice,
the more you feel able to practice.
The less you are able to practice,
the less you feel able to practice.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 23 – Ujjāyī is a breathing technique that can facilitate the ability to remain in the doorway……
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 22 – Ultimately our experience of the Āsana is refined through……
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 21 – Yoga practice evolves from an external other cooked restaurant experience to……
Yoga practice evolves from an external other cooked restaurant experience
to an internal self cooked home experience via the stages of:
1. Dependence on an outside teacher and external ambient venue.
2. Interdependence where we add the beginnings of a home practice to our outside support.
3. Independence where we have refined the skill to rely on and be primarily nourished by our home practice.
This is Svatantra.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 20 – The heart of Yoga is the way in which a profound change is effected…..
The heart of Yoga is the way in which a profound change is effected on the way we view our environment.
In other words arising out of the various complementary practices of Yoga,
the way we see the world and its processes,
is enriched by a sensitivity to change and understanding of impermanence.
Further, the different practices are not separate compartments,
they are linked through the principles underpinning them.
For example, a meditative attitude in the practice of postures,
complements a stable posture in the practice of seated meditation.
108 Yoga Practice Pointers – 19 – Yoga practice is much more than just Āsana……
In terms of ageing mainframes and creaking joints,
it is perhaps useful to remind ourselves that
Yoga practice is much more than just Āsana.
In other words, even as the body slows down,
can we continue to slow the Breath down,
can we continue to slow the Mind down,
can we be Still within the distraction of age?
