Through accumulated tensions and reactions we have lost contact with our body, we live largely in our head, and the real feeling of the body has become paralysed.
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Welcome to Yoga with Billy DoyleThrough accumulated tensions and reactions we have lost contact with our body, we live largely in our head, and the real feeling of the body has become paralysed.
Only in listening to the body and letting the sensation unfold and come to us, can it again come to life.
This allows a re-orchestration of our energy and instead of the old impression of the body as dull, heavy and contracted, we discover it to be light, flexible and expanded in space, as we felt in our infancy.
When we approach the asana (posture) and pranayama (breathing) in this way they have a completely different quality. The effect is to bring about a deep relaxation in the body-mind, free of patterns and restrictions and to open us to deeper levels of awareness.
Meditation
When the posture is really understood it becomes meditation. Here we no longer emphasize the object, the body, but our awareness, presence. There is a kind of switch-over when the asana has completely unfolded in our awareness and is re-absorbed in stillness. In this meditation, there is no one who meditates and nothing to meditate on. It is not concentration, but choiceless awareness.
Breathing
In the same way our body has become restricted, so too, through fear and tension our breath is largely reaction. We tend to grasp the inhalation and push the exhalation, a continuous psychic manipulation.
In our practice we learn to "listen" to the breath, feel it in different parts of the body and in the global sensation. We give the breath the opportunity to become spontaneous, as in our infancy.
We use the breath, the prana, in certain yogic techniques to calm the brain and stimulate and direct the body's energy. On a more spiritual level, by emphasizing the space between the breaths and the background of all breathing, we are brought to a forefeeling of our real nature.
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