Yoga and Meditation
Most commonly asked questions about Yoga and Meditation.
What is Yoga?
Simply put yoga is the yoking or joining of the mind, body, and emotional components of the human experience.
What is Hatha Yoga?
Hatha yoga is the science of the physical body, which includes a range of styles from gentle to athletic. The practice of Hatha yoga includes breathing techniques (pranayama), postures (asana), and visualization, relaxation, and meditation techniques.
Animals, dogs, cats, and children stretch spontaneously. Hatha yoga is an intensification of this instinctive action. In a relaxed fashion you move through a set of poses, taking each joint through its range of motion.
Why is learning to breathe so important to support a yoga practice?
Breath is the ultimate connection between body and mind. Also, breath work is the fundimental means to mindfully connect with any given moment. Mindful breathing is nothing more than consciously witnessing the exchange of exhalation and inhalation in the present.
Observing the gentle flow of breath tends to create more easeful postures. Each oxygen enriched breath feeds billions of hungry cells. Breathing deeply massages the internal organs, tones the abdominal muscles, and steadies and calms the mind and nervous system.
I am a beginner at Yoga. Is it going to be difficult for me to learn?
With any yoga practice it is recognized that some days people are more flexible than on other days. Right from the very start there is a spirit of honoring where your body is and what it needs moment to moment. If your body asking for gentleness and an advanced pose is being explored then gentleness is the honored theme for that moment. Postures range from gentle beginners to the vigorously advanced. Awaken Your Senses focuses on both gentle beginners and intermediate level practices. Keep in mind you are always working in a supportive and safe environment. You can go into a resting pose at any given time.
I try to meditate but I just can not seem to stop my mind from racing. Is yoga for everyone?
Surprise! You already know how to meditate. It is the innate experience of simply getting lost or letting go. Our brain is a natural thinking organism, its job is to discern and interpret our lives. Through intentional breating practices meditation focuses the mind allowing clarity of thought and discovery of emotion. As feelings come and go they are simply watched not judged.
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