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Monthly Archives: March 2011
yogic flexibility
When you are enviously looking at the student on the mat next to you fold their foot up by their ear, focus internally on your breath, close your eyes and take your awareness back to your flexibility of mind! As our minds become more flexible we are able to accept that we are all different & we all shine in different areas. For me as a yoga teacher, the student who discovers more about themselves & their internal world through their physical practice is learning more from yoga than the student who can easily flow into a difficult physical practice. So remember that yoga is about more than just physical postures; that the asana are just one of eight areas which Patanjali focused on as the practice of yoga. Continue reading
yoga manners
Yoga class manners may appear obvious, but they allow us all to enjoy, what is a very individual practice in the company of others. A well mannered student is a joy in class, whereas a badly mannered student can spoil it for everybody so please just treat others as well as you would like to be treated! Continue reading
finding fortune in misfortune
It is the practice of yoga and meditation that reduces our clouded perception of the world and allows us to view the situation with a clearer perception. Samskara are the seeds of our past actions…we can get into habits without realizing it, be it always driving the same route to work or just accepting without question what path our life is taking. It sometimes takes an outside event to allow us to move out of our comfort zone. What we need to do is to see this as positive in that it allows is to work with our practice and observe with clearer perception. It also allows us a fresh view of our life, for sometimes only when we look with fresh eyes can we see the positive in new situations; the fortune in apparent misfortune! Continue reading
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all work & no play
For me, I am trying to schedule in more time to just potter. Days where I have no schedule apart from to enjoy my practice, wander down the river with my dog and notice. I think that is the important lesson for me..to remember to notice! To allow my senses to become more sensitized to smells, to touch, to sound or just to being open to the world I move through every day. During meditation I often feel that the birds start to sing or the breeze to touch me. Whereas it’s more likely that without thoughts and actions constantly intruding on my senses, they are more able to open to the experience of the world around me. Noticing the birdsong or the smell of grass on the breeze that day-to-day life forgets. Try to, just for a week, allow your self a few minutes every day to just sit and notice the world around you. To relax your control on your senses and experience and opening, a letting go of the self control. A sense of just being in the moment with what ever arises. Continue reading
