{"id":5039,"date":"2014-10-15T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2014-10-17T09:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:08:41","slug":"5039","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/5039\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightness in Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like  &#8220;unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; &#8211; hardly unbearable, and past bearable &#8211; approaching mildly pleasant? approaching pleasant &#8211; Get past it all and then &#8230; it&#8217;s&#8230;empty and spacious &#8211; nothing &#8230; blissful&#8230; depending on our mindset.  <\/p>\n<p>Treading lightly:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/fitness\/stages-of-meditation\"> <\/a><br \/>\nIt does not have to be so serious  &#8211; wipe away the creases between your eye brows &#8211; Keeping our sense of humor intact always helps in any &#8220;difficult&#8221; or challenging situations.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/fitness\/stages-of-meditation\">Here&#8217;s a link to help you see that you are not alone<\/a> &#8211; 1-10 stages are hilarious. LOVE Stage #5 with Shiba-inu:)<\/p>\n<p>Have faith. It will get easier and you will reap the rewards of consistent regular practice:)  If your couch in the living room does not work, visit your local yoga studio &#8211; there should be one in every town &#8211; just getting away from the couch and TV-set or any electronic devices&#8217; screen for that matter, and step into a space with the pure intention of practicing yoga &#8211; that can make a difference. Try other classes and other styles &#8211; see what resonates with you.  For most it&#8217;s much easier with more movement where concentrating on your pose and breath &#8211; that focus will put negative or loopy thoughts out of your mind &#8211; since you will be too busy focusing on the physical aspects &#8211; &#038; that too would be a good challenge also:) Whatever works given your condition &#8211; is the practice you need. There&#8217;s nothing you should be doing &#8211; other than listening to yourself with compassion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shibainuyoga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shibainuyoga.jpg\" alt=\"shibainuyoga\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shibainuyoga.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shibainuyoga-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shibainuyoga-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to emulating the &#8220;real&#8221; down + up dog &#8211; the whole body stretch &#8211; stretching our bodies; stretching our mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like &#8220;unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; &#8211; hardly unbearable, and past bearable &#8211; approaching mildly pleasant? approaching pleasant &#8211; Get past it all and then &#8230; it&#8217;s&#8230;empty and spacious &#8211; nothing &#8230; blissful&#8230; depending on our mindset. Treading lightly: It does not have to be so serious &#8211; wipe away the creases between your eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}