Excerpt From – Esther Geis

“Once upon a time in a far away land there was a practice that would transform sorrows into joy. It was called the 8 limb practice. Through the ages it travelled from one generation to the next adapting to time and space until it reached the west.

 

When it comes to health, we westerners put facts before myth and we want to know if yoga is the ‘truth’ before we practice it. Thanks to science the western culture can confirm the beneficial effects of this ancient method and release it from the lab and onto the high street.

 

We want to know more about the poses. So we study its anatomy, create rules and instruct everything there is to know. As we try to recall everything in our practice we start feeding the very thing we wanted to quiet: our noisy mind.

 

Slowly but surely, we stop experiencing the pose until we think we already know the pose and don’t even experience it anymore.

 

But what if we could rediscover those magical moments of bliss where the mind was quiet?

 

As we discover our body’s innate wisdom, words become less relevant instructions turn tactile as they happen mostly through adjustment or demonstration.

 

All of a sudden it does not matter what you ‘know about the pose’ but ‘how you feel’ when you practice it.

 

The noisy mind admits yoga can’t be instructed. It is nothing but a spiritual experience that happens to reside in the body.

 

Dormant within the body it is re-awakened.”

 

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