Ajita
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Apr 24, 2006, 10:00 PM
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Asana practice fundamentals
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Dear Yogafriend,
You can improve the effect of your Asana's by considering the following suggestions:
When practicing an Asana it is fundamental to integrate it first with the Yama's and Niyama's (moral principles and moral ideals), which are the first two preliminary steps of Yoga. This means for example that you try to remain gentle and soft, avoiding pain at all cost, accepting your limitations, and not desiring impossible results at the moment, satisfied with only a few relevant postures for your actual condition, with your attention focused upon the reactions of your being, and while opening yourself to the universal energy.
Also fundamental is to stay as long as possible in the chosen Asana, trying to install total quietness, resulting in immobility. That means that you are constanly busy during the Asana to handle the various reactions of your being (physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual) and every time you restore your inner peace. Only then your Shiva and Shakti energy will become balanced and the benefits of the exercise will occur fully. You can find a useful free training scheme (part of the Keys of Immortality) based upon the two first stages of Iyengar on my website www.raja-yoga.org if you want.
The major opportunity in an Asana is that you make a valuable Samskara, an impression in your DNA program, which can influence your future life favorably, if you perform it correctly, combining it with all the other seven steps of Yoga (Yama's, Niyama's, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi). This means practically that you will become the Asana one day and that you will not need to repeat that Asana practice anymore. So if you are clever this is absolutely fundamental. Only the stupids keep on doing the same all the time.
The most difficult thing is to choose the right Asana for you at that moment. So start your session with a calm observation of your own needs or inclinations. With time you will succeed and the Asana will be a bliss. The gratefulness of your body for that will help you to remember and to repeat the Asana.
Wishing you success.
Yours friendly,
Shri Yogacharya Ajita
(Philippe Barbier)
Director of The Raja Yoga Institute
Co-founder and Member of the Core Group of Samenwerkende Yogadocenten Nederland
Representative of Holland in the International Yoga Federation
Honorary Secretary of the International Yoga Federation for the European Union
President of the European Yoga Council
Member of the European Yoga Alliance
Member of the World Yoga Council
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