11/01/2017
It can be very challenging to visualize ones body during a yoga practice, it is hard enough for someone new to yoga to keep an awareness on the breath. When we are disconnected from our body our mind starts to run without control. When someone begins practicing hatha yoga everyday they will feel a great increase in circulation. This new circulation is energy flowing through us, it may be heat, blood or prana(energy). We must practice proper alignment when we do yoga or we training our body to move in unstable ways and ultimately creating imbalances. Such as laxity of ligaments and instabilities in muscle groups. It is not necessary to visualize the energy centers of our body while we practice, we only need a conscious awareness of feeling. Noticing tension or ease.
It is however useful to practice visualisation during seated meditations, this could be as simple as imagining a red Apple or sitting in front of an Ocean. These visualization can eventually become very elaborate imagining energy pathways circulating through ones body these are sometime called nadis or meridians. There is a physical equivalent to the nadis, they are called lines of fascia. Fascia is a connective tissue that runs throughout our whole body.
When we practice yoga we massage these fascial lines and ultimately reshape our muscles reducing tension and repairing imperfections. The body has a natural ability to heal, through movement we can ease our stressed sub conscious. By regularly Practacing yoga we shed past injury and create new a stronger body and mind. 🕉
Thankyou Namaste
Photo:The key muscles of yoga
Author Ray Long - this was a textbook in my teacher training.
My next short lecture will be on the importance of the psoas muscle stay tuned :)