Sublime

That synergy of the inner and outer experience leading us toward well-being, not the form of the posture, is the hallmark of the ideal asana.

As you might surmise, yoga involves a lot of isometric effort. Whenever you hold an active asana, your muscles must engage isometrically. Maintaining upright posture throughout the day is also an isometric effort. Transitioning in and out of poses, however, requires concentric and eccentric efforts of various muscles.

We practice in an intelligent and disciplined manner in the service of truth. This ensures that the practices remain in the practical realm of relating to the world and other sentient beings in a joyful and unselfish way.

We have to practice in such a way that we allow insight into the union of the body and mind, the inhale and the exhale, the twist and the countertwist, so that we experience our own merging into what we naturally perceive as our background—all that we see as separate from ourselves.

case. Having arrived in the territory of the backbend, it still requires a great deal of internal and meditative focus to actually turn a gymnastic position into a fully functioning yoga pose and receive the benefits of that pose. Because those who are naturally flexible arrive more easily in the pose, they also run a greater risk than stiffer indi

If you engage and lift up on the perineum and inhale notice that the diaphragm does not move as far south as compared to when you gently lift on the pelvic floor (levator ani and fascia) with less of a physical lift and more of an energetic engagement of the pelvic floor. The actual energetic spots of Mula Bandha are behind the cervix and behind th