Sunday, November 8, 2009

Under Your Own Steam

Greetings Yogis and Yoginis,

This week in class we are considering the topic “Embodying The Spirit.”

Under Your Own Steam

The purpose of deliberate restraint and controlled relaxation is to confine tensions to their places where they can work constructively and not allow the energy of the body to dribble wastefully away in unnecessary motion. You should keep your steam in to run your own engine and not permit it to escape and befog your mind or cloud the lives of others.

- Marcia Moore and Mark Douglas

The homework is to ask yourself, what is the benefit of practicing Yoga asana? Can we define asana as deliberate restraint and controlled relaxation? How does the practice of Yoga asana encourage the sadhaka (practitioner) to not waste movement and to conserve energy?

Blessings,

paul cheek
Rushing Water Yoga
The BKS Iyengar Yoga School of Southwest Washington
417 NE Birch St., Camas, WA 98607
360.834.5994

www.rushingwateryoga.com
info@rushingwateryoga.com

Serving Yoga to Camas, Washougal, and Vancouver Washington since 2003

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