2/26/2015 0 Comments Yoga Post #3: Yoking and Breath In our first weekend training, we talked a lot about what yoga is and how it came to be. Yoga means to yoke. To connect the body mind and spirit. I'm sure this means something different for everyone, but this is what it means to me. My body is important. One of the main purposes of coming to earth is to experience a body. It's not something to deal with, or put up with-- it's something to yoke. It’s something to integrate with my spirit so that I am a more powerful Divine Being. I've been studying this for years, importance of understanding and being in tune with my body so that I am more in tune with my spirit, and it's interesting to hear the yogi perspective. From what I understand breath is what helps it connect. Breath is the tool through which the yoking occurs. We can live for weeks without food or water, but we can't live for more than a few minutes without air and breath.
This blows my mind. How much do I not understand the power of my breath and how I can use it to connect, integrate, and heal. I started the yoga training at the end january, focusing on the throat chakra started in February, and I know that breath has a lot to do with me being grounded and speaking my truth. It all seems to be coming together. At the end of January, I knew that my focus for February needed to be breathing. Just being and breathing and understanding how my breath connects to my body and my spirit and it integrates the two. I learned during that first weekend that I really needed to understand what my own personal yoga practice looks like. Whether or not I ended up teaching, seemed very much secondary to the importance of what I was being taught about developing my own personal practice. AndI knew that this month my personal practice would be a lot of breath work. And as I’ve explored that this past month I can't really describe what I've learned very well. I've learned how to open my body and allow for breath. That you allow it to go places in your body that I didn't realise breath could even go. I explored and experimented with different poses, and how they affected my breath naturally going into different places in my body. I would want to stay there and just breath for hours. And allowing myself to do that allowed me to be more truthful with me and how I represented myself to other people. Maybe coming to know my own breath allows me to come to know myself.
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