Move Within Yoga
  • Home
  • Yoga
    • Online Classes
    • About
    • Kid & Teen Yoga
    • Live Healthy Longer
    • Mindfulness
    • Private Yoga Classes
  • Videos
  • Blue Jeans Blog
    • Yoga in Blue Jeans Blog
  • ArtYogaBaby
    • Iris G Series
    • Earthscapes
    • Gallery, 2016-2018
    • Stir It Up
    • A&A Blog
    • Media Musings

Free Breath

11/14/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Age of the Guru is over. Blind followers of gurus whether they be of the financial or fashion variety are waning. You can see this in yoga. The days when students threw flowers at the enlightened master sitting on a throne and bowed at his feet are over. The day when the student repeated verbatim the words of the master is over. The time when the student sponged off the teacher is over. 'Methods' of purifying old karma, for example through rigorous, forceful, thrusting breaths, are still practiced. But they have ancient roots at a time when the freshly purified student would then be able to  soak up the energy and consciousness of his teacher. And what if there is no teacher for the 21st-century Bandha lock student? Then what? And who wants to be an energy vampire anyway?

It is the Age of the Individual. It is about the individual coming into conscious awareness with his or her own thoughts and subtle feelings, and with the other. When we consciously shape an asana and our Life, our breathing will be released of karma and old habits all on its own. We won't have to force it. The breath will find a freedom quite naturally and a new pattern will emerge. The starting point for 'consciously shaping' comes from objective observation, to simply observe through the senses without either intellectualizing or having our emotions triggered, with none of our personal likes and dislikes creeping in.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Yoga in Blue Jeans

    Everyday Yoga

    "To communicate is to connect, yoga in its truest sense."

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    December 2020
    June 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    August 2017
    July 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    July 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013

Copyright 2020 Move Within Yoga. All Rights Reserved.