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Want to talk about asanas…

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If there are somebody who practiced for a long time asanas I wold like to exchange information. My present concerning are methods and proper asanas. I practice yoga for a long time but I want to know other peoples methods for training.

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One of the meanings of "Namaste" is "I honor the place within you where the universe resides." Honesty is not excluding anything from one’s practice, but bringing it into one’s practice with an open heart. Your honesty and openness are refreshing. Thank you!

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Wow! Wounderful – a "impropper" Hatha Yogi, that is alife, in this NG!!! :-) )) I enjoyed it very much to read your posting – thank you very much Anthony for your inspiration. Yoga is to me much more than a "propper" exercise – it is fun and joy beeing alive and sometimes it is allso fighting and frustration – and, very much, again and again – surrender to the infinite inside… May the light of your love continue to guide you and surround you – Sat Nam, Hari Har Singh :-)

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If there are somebody who practiced for a long time asanas I wold like to exchange information. My present concerning are methods and proper asanas. I practice yoga for a long time but I want to know other peoples methods for training. I wish there was less discussion about what was "proper" in this newsgroup. Many of those who post what is "proper" tend to be long-winded & self-agrandizing. The most attractive aspect of Hatha Yoga is that you have to push through your practice until it becomes proper for you. For many of us, that means doing it poorly until enough dharma has developed that you summon your teacher through the ether.

Well it wasn’t my intend to ask about proper asanas but about other kinds of asanas that I don’t know. It was also a question to see if there are peoples who likes to talk about this subject and share their experience.I put that question because I have  had experienced many kinds of good things and bad things in my practice and now I decided to not follow anymore the people who teached my till now . My reason are very strong and is a very long story about this. Is a story about hope and trustness. If I see that I could open my soul maybe I will told you about some day. The sadak, for instance, will try Trikonasana every day, lopsided and skewed. Then Guru’s attention will finally be attracted, and he will smack the sadak a good one on the rump, suddenly straightening everything out.

There were days in my practice when I make my practice for as long as 4 -6 hours a day maybe more. A big part of it was Nauly Kriya which was and is a strong point for me. And after that Laya Yoga for many hours. There were times when I felt the universe around me and my mind was inside to my soul. There was an ocean of silence and purity and I know that I was very close to the very high meditation. But in my country to live is a stron fight with you and the others because after each moment of pure infinity I was back to the reality. I had a very strong body with a lot of energy inside but because I don’t meet ever a good teacher to tell me where to go, a lost a lot of my energy. All those nice and unforgiveable feelings about human kind and the universe disapeared in time and now, after long years, I could say: YES there is something behind our human nature who makes us the beautiful things in the universe, there is imortality, there is an eternal spirit. I was close to it, but I failed. Now I failed, but I’ve learned a lot of things about me. I could say that never I’ll repeat those mistakes. It was a strog will in me to find a master to be my friend and sow me the right way. But no, that "master" who realy knows a lot about YOGA, showed me nothing but a strong will for money and power. While you’re aspiring with every flow of your existence, trying not to fall over, or pull a muscle, the pundits will hem & haw around you, drawing their conclusions, calling you a tree trunk, a wall, a rope, etc. I fear they are attached to their detachment. Please share some specifics about your practice. What is causing you to worry about being improper? Are you really as concerned as you seem? How do you practice? What wonderful things have you discovered? What results are worth sharing?

If you say you know about yoga, well I told you something I do:    - hatha yoga: asanas, pranayama (sometimes when my breath stoped for as long as 5 -7 minutes I felt a river of fire into my spine who pushes up and my body becomes huge into my perception and very powerfull), kriyas (VAMANA Dhauthi, NAULI Kriya, ShankPraksalana (this 1 times each month), LAYA Yoga…. and much more. I like to stretch on weekday mornings, breathe deeply in the early hours, and invert myself in as many creative ways that I can find. I like to listen to rock n’ roll during & sometimes have a couple of bong hits before starting practice. I keep a frequent journal of my experiences, but I rarely read what I wrote. I wish I could say that what I am going through is a part of the yogi’s normal development, and many of the Masters who I worship say it is, but the results of my practice tell me that it is different for every individual. We may all be flowers, but we are different colors. Some of us are narcotic, and some of us are balming. Please tell me what you are…

I’m a spirit who believes that in us is our hope; now I am not able to believe in anybody else, what I want is to find friends to talk about our experiences and to share techniques for practice. Of course, for each of us there are proper kinds of practice: maybe asanas for me, maybe meditation for others, but I believe that the final goal is the same. Like "diferent paths to Rome". Well, if there are people who reads these and if they considered himselves that they have a good practice behind I would like to talk to them. I don’t have something to hide, and if somebody ask me about my failures I will respond. But I think that if you don’t feel something on your skin you don’t learn. but there are things who could be learned from others. Your path will be shorter. Right now I really want to know much about very strong techniques related to Kriya Yoga and Shivananda’s path to the deep sleep with your mind still awaken. I don’t know the proper term for that. PLease excuse.

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