A Note on Some of the Deeper Aspects of Yoga

Something I was thinking about and wrote up. I hope you enjoy it.

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A Note on Some of the Deeper Aspects of Yoga

One of the complicated aspects of talking about some of the deeper aspects of Yoga is that a yoga practice is a personal process and the experience of Yoga is as well. What can be said, simply, is that the process of being with yourself, doing a practice with yourself that is about self awareness and therefore getting to know yourself or establishing a relationship with yourself leads to experiences of some of the internal workings of your own uniqueness and your own aliveness. In the end a yoga practice is the process of establishing that relationship with yourself. The practice itself is what ever you use to establish that connection, that relationship. Whereas the Yoga is the experience, and no matter how hard one tries, an experience cannot fully be put into words. Metaphors that express something of the experience that practitioners have had throughout history abound. Statements like: the serpent energy at the base of the spine was freed and made its ascent through shashumna nadhi up to the crown of my head and I experienced the merge of Shiva and Shakti, are wonderful metaphoric ways of expressing an experience of the energy of aliveness released into the system. In fact any attempt to express something felt can, as poetic as it might be, only be a metaphoric reference to the experience, since the words and the description are separate from the experience to which they refer.

So the descriptions, the guidance, the inspiring words or directions of others are only a starting place to get you inside of your own self; to get you started on experiencing the uniqueness of your own perceptions and your own experiences of being a living breathing organism that is part of this amazing universe which we exist as cooperative parts of.

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