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Finding The Heart in Your Yoga Practice
admin | 28 October, 2008 10:59
We have heard many statements about finding your heart, spoken many times, in many different ways. This is one of the deepest needs of the human spirit. We need heart to feel it and to be it, in other words, to fully experience our lives, to find happiness and real purpose.
Coming from the heart is feeling the internal pulse, the vibration of the body as it responds, reacts, changes with each experience, each interaction. This is the place of truly knowing yourself, a genuine recognition of your core feelings, that place where you know what you know from the bottom of your heart, in your innermost self, your authentic self. This is where you are one with the universe. Take a moment to think about some of the common phrases related to this authentic heartfelt place in our English language.
These statements are all expressions that come from the heart:
Put your whole heart into it.
If I am going to do this I have to feel it.
My heart goes out to you.
I know this in my heart of hearts.
Follow your heart.
The focus is on the heart feeling state of bodymind
while moving through each specific posture. Through this practice, we
experience our true nature within each posture. We return to the
heart. To begin to understand the practice from an experience in the
bodymind, try this practice. When you do your yoga practice today,
move with a heart feeling meditative pace, focusing on the pulse of the
bodymind as it emanates from the heart, carrying the breath through the
body, incorporating pranayama breathing techniques, while moving with
and through the yoga asanas. The yoga movement is flowing, feeling and
being present in the moment, moving from the heart center of the
bodymind. In each posture we notice the pulse and we move from that
place in the bodymind where we experience the pulse. We refer to that
as moving from the heart, or moving with heart.
