The sweet or savory flavors that satisfy the palate bring us back to the table again and again.
So too the satisfying contentment and peace that come from yoga bring us back again and again to its uplifting cornucopia.
Thus we “achieve” the heart and motivation for regular practice.
Music resonates. We feel it!
A gong or a drum resonates.
Do your yoga poses. Pause between or among them, and feel their resonance.
Meditate and do breath work or pranayama. Feel their resonance.
See which practices lift or elevate your frequency or give you greater peace and/or happiness.
Feel the waves of your yoga resonate.
Profoundly stilling, like a clap of thunder, the peacefulness of the Self.
Feel it reverberate.
Hear its echoes….
Like Goldilocks in The Three Bears, we move and adjust ourselves in a yoga pose so it feels “just right.”
In yoga and meditation, we make adjustments so we are comfortable or at ease and stable or steady, the requirements of an asana according to Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. This balance point is always shifting; thus, we make adjustments to stay more with it.
Comfortable and steady, “just right,” bringing it home!
When we were children, a lot us had safe spaces we would go to… these places held us, and we felt safer and comforted… secure.
A regular spot (or spots) for yoga and meditation can be such for us.
Safe, secure, comfortable. Places where we are able to let go and comfortably be ourselves… and find peace.
Should you want a more complete practice…
include a mix of standing standing and sitting poses,
forward bend, backbends, side bends, and twists,
a warm-up phase, a work period, and a cool-down.
You can flow poses together, do them in isolation; you can do one pose per breath or hold poses for several breaths, even for a few minutes.
You may include breath work or pranayama and/or meditation.
It’s your home. A balance of some of the ingredients above will help you cook up a practice that suits your tastes, your appetite.
Satisfyingly delicious!
Given COVID, most of us are left to our own devices to practice yoga at home.
This need not be a deterrent.
The next few blogs will offer some guidance for a successful home practice.
First, a practice need not be an hour or an hour and a half… not even 30 minutes.
You can choose to do an isolated pose or two, or a brief flow whenever you have the time and/or feel the inclination.
One restorative pose can be… very restorative!
You can do pranayama in isolation, in just a few brief minutes even just a round of breath of fire or alternate nostril breathing.
A short meditation is always more than no meditation.
Your yoga can be short and sweet…
Sweet!
In between the breaths, between the gong’s ripples, and between the crickets’ chirps, there is a dynamic stillness.
May your yoga and meditation carry you to the abode of this dynamic stillness and may you feel your being pulsing with it.
We are its echo!
Every so often, pause after a yoga pose, or after a few, and feel their resonance.
Like waves of the ocean, let them wash over and through you, and carry you to…
You strike a gong and hear its resonance.
You do the practices and feel their resonance.
Let that reverberate through you.
The Every Day Yogi 