The incredible power of Yoga February 9, 2009
Posted by bodhidude in : Healing, Spirituality , trackback
After considering it for many years about 2 months ago I began taking Vinyasa Yoga classes. It seems the time was finally right and my experience has been nothing short of transformative. I’ve been a spiritual practitioner for a long time but somehow my body never quite made it into my practice. Yoga has given me a new way to practice and engage the present moment. It has given me a way to get back in touch with my body, to fully inhabit and embrace my body and to more fully appreciate it. In doing Yoga practice I’m finding that as I work with the poses, flow and breath I’m finding stuck energy, tension and blockages in my body that correlate to inner processes involving things like fear, guilt, separation, vulnerability, and other emotional wounds. Working with these physical blockages is helping me access healing on a new dimension that is impacting my spiritual practice and path to awakening as a whole. The physical benefits of increased energy, flexibility and strength are pretty awesome as well. Its interesting that in the physical difficulty of many of the asanas I’m find an opportunity to surrender to the discomfort of this human form and thereby finding peace within pain. Quite a reflection for the rest of life and a lesson in how so much of the pain we feel is because we are fighting or resisting what is instead of accepting and relaxing into it.
Beyond that however is the deep power of Yoga to help me connect with the divine, with the universe. I’ve been introduced to Bhakti Yoga and the devotional practices it involves while not what I really got into Yoga for are really serving as a balance in my spiritual practice. A bright light of love, openness and connection amid the often painful process of illuminating and healing old wounds. This practice of Yoga really helps me remember the joy in being fully alive so I can appreciate this beautiful magical world we live in, in all its wonder and ordinariness. When I see the people here who have been doing this practice for some time it is evident by the love, peace and joy in their eyes and in their energy that they’ve really opened themselves to universal love. As one of my teachers points out, if we are breathing and present then all actions can be Yoga. I’m grateful for this incredible gift on my journey. May all beings benefit.
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