Freedom of Yoga
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More than a discipline, yoga can be an exploration, where you let your inner feeling tell you how to move. Obsession with form denies the individual the ability to enjoy the experience of release and opening of the body. ME For more on this approach to yoga, please see My Story and Some Thoughts.
All that really matters is that you feel that you can soften and release. The work evolved from my urge to feel more and to have the freedom to move in yoga. My initial practice and study was more rigid and focused extensively on alignment and perfection. Now I look for the beautiful energy that flows through all of us and brings with it a sense of freedom and joy. I look for where and why it gets blocked and congested. Angela Farmer The Feminine Unfolding Blessed are the flexible for they shall not bent out of shape. The Unknown Mystic Sensual dance, you know it the minute you see it. It radiates from deep inside; the dancer's whole body flows like silk, her movements are beautifully interwoven, breathing with meaningful, effortless grace. The ability to move in this organic, connected way begins with an intuitive knowledge that arises when we are sensually awake. Nobody knows why animals play so much, but they all do, That's where the emotion of joy comes from, the play circuits in the brain. When big old dairy cows are let out in the spring, after spending the whole winter cooped up in the barn, man, they just jump around all over the fields like little calves. It's the same feeling young animals have when they play. |