Even in absolute stillness, when you tune in… unseen but there…
the flow of subtle energy, it’s there… we can tap into that source:
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The Gift…of freshness.
In yoga, we learn a lot of Pranayama (breath-work) methods with all kinds of names and ratios, retentions/holds, alternates, nostril or not, into lungs or into abdomen, & both or not, etc. You are concentrating so much on breath count and ratios that … such methodical way frees your mind from thinking other thoughts… the idea is that single-handed focus calms your mind besides other physiological benefits. True, as one teacher would say, you can literally heal your body from the inside with each deliberate breath you take. They all and each have its place and effective in affecting a change within you. It’s science… convinced.
But for now, forget all those techniques and methods. It does not always have to be so complicated.
Let go of your need to control your breath. Sometimes just …awareness and gratitude is … enough.
Sometimes “simplicity” is all… Simply do this: Imagine a bouquet of flowers brought to you from someone you find endearing. Maybe it’s not even a bouquet but a single stem flower – a gift from nature: You visually take in the – lovely colors, its beauty, then… the scent… the aroma…Take a deep in-hale, then a deep ex-hale … continue with seamless transitions … immersed…feel more and more rooted as you get more grounded … then more centered as you find your astral spine, the sushumna, in your subtle psychic body … So let go of your need to control your breath but don’t let go of that …SMILE:)
In this simple easy practice, your breath need not be “victorious” as in Ujai breath…(the sound of Ujai is supposed to be like mantra chanting – a bit noisy – to keep you present so it has its place in certain practice) but for now, just take in that NATURAL soothing breath as you would accepting a gift of a beautiful bouquet of flowers with a BIG SMILE – it’s a quiet gentle but more a lengthy rather than deep – that saturating breath – let that breath simply saturate you…with goodness that crowds out what’s not essential:
Reminded San Mateo Flower & Garden Show is coming…
In other words, for seekers…
The Healing Concert with Special Guest Wah! at Yoga Flow…
Date: Saturday, 3/7/2015From: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
An evening immersion into deep relaxation using Wah!’s meditative music and calming laser lights. The Healing Concert is an invitation to access deep relaxation, natural healing and rejuvenation. This feature-length presentation uses loops, delays, keyboards, vocals and custom-made laser lights to deliver its message.
The slow-moving lights resemble patterns in Nature such as constellations in the sky and Northern Lights on the horizon. Everyone is gently guided into a state of relaxation, letting go layer by layer.
The Healing Concert is a multimedia musical and visual presentation that has the ability to transform audience member’s physical and mental state, to literally bring about a shift of consciousness. It’s a doorway to a different you. More than the music, it’s about the experience the music allows.
Cost: $35/advance and $40/day of and door
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First time I heard Wah’s track was at YogaWorks studio in LA during class.
Immediately I was like – what’s this? I want to know.
Had to go up to the instructor after class to ask who the artist was.
Wah… What? Wah, you know – WAH.
Me: Wa? What?
Instructor: No, you know, Wah.
Me: ?
Instructor: (spelled out now) W – A – H, Wha.
Me: okaaaay… of course, Wah… (thinking to myself, Wah? what on earth does that mean?)
Last time I heard her was when she was at Urban Flow – at Pandit Rajmani Tigunait’s lecture … just singing in the background …very unobtrusive – very subtle – Meditative. I love her voice. For those people who cannot easily relax, just cannot meditate, too wound up, too anxious, too nervous, too … shall I say, too stuck – this might help pave the way to cleanse out the internal obstructions.
Of course, for those lucky people where everything, at least outwardly, is oh, just soooo perfect and very content and happy – for those people too:) You will be happy at a cellular level – if you love nature and life and the vibrations human voice creates.
Working with some constraints, trying to deal with the limitations to create this kind of mood (but DIFFERENT) in some of my classes – why is it so difficult to … just chill. As Judith Lasater would say, to “Relax & Renew”?
It’s okay – you don’t have to feel terrible or guilty about it either – it’s not being lazy and idle to have time dedicated for yourself – doing absolutely NOTHING but breathe. Nothing and nobody to take care of … but Self. To me, it’s a gestation time – it’s also a time for self-healing and calibrating balance. Mindfully, with directed intention. You have another 22.5 hours in a day you can be intense to any degree you choose to be by way of work & through work, produce, accomplish, achieve, perform – answer to whatever is to your unique calling. But during your precious “me-time”, there’s nothing to correct or rectify.