Yoga is a transformative art, and stealthily easy. A minimum of, although the innovative yoga postures remain in reality challenging to the unpracticed, and look it, the modifications that yoga can bring into one’s life belie the obvious simpleness of extending muscles.
What is the fundamental distinction in between yoga and routine exercises, consisting of pilates. Or at least the element of yoga that is made of the physical workouts, the asanas.
Yoga incorporates the breath and awareness with physical stretches in a manner that I have not even felt in pilates, although pilates is excellent as a method of enhancing the internal muscles of the body also, especially the pelvic flooring.
In yoga, through the breath, and focusing on it within our body, we come to a higher understanding of both our body and ourselves. And we are able to start a procedure of altering that which is obstructing the crucial circulation of our energy.
That is why it does not matter what state we are in when we start practicing a yoga posture. It is a journey of discovery, not of attempting to fit ourselves into an external concept, even if that concept is represented in that minute by the yoga posture we are attempting to do. That posture is a possible result, yes, however what we do in our practice of yoga is to take the journey.
Desikachar makes another essential point: “We need to stay versatile so that we are still able to respond to modifications in our expectations and old concepts. The more distanced we are from the fruits of our labors, the much better we have the ability to do this … Paying more attention to the spirit in which we act and looking less to the results our actions might bring us – this is the significance of isvarapranidhana in kriya yoga”
The asanas are a method of preparing ourselves to more totally satisfy the obstacles of life in a method that does not toss us off balance, and increases our capability to adjust to those modifications that are fundamental in life. They enable us to be more conscious and delicate to what is actually going on inside us, and in life itself.
When we are sidetracked or preoccupied with worries, doubts, and concerns, and even hope that is connected to a result (requirement), the essential energy of our whole being is dripping, diffused. Through yoga practice, we are able to clear the fragments, to reroute our diffused energy within, to sit within the body, our being, once again.
Referrals: Desikachar, Heart If Yoga
In yoga, through the breath, and focusing on it within our body, we come to a higher understanding of both our body and ourselves. That is why it does not matter what state we are in when we start practicing a yoga posture. It is a journey of discovery, not of attempting to fit ourselves into an external concept, even if that concept is represented in that minute by the yoga posture we are attempting to do. That posture is a possible result, yes, however what we do in our practice of yoga is to take the journey.
Through yoga practice, we are able to clear the sediment, to reroute our diffused energy within, to sit within the body, our being, once again.