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Anusara Yoga, founded by John Friend, is a unique approach to hatha yoga where the spirit of the HEART powerfully blends with the precision of biomechanical ALIGNMENT and balanced energetic ACTION in the performance of asanas (yoga postures). The word "anusara" originates from a line in the Tantric text called the Kularnava Tantra, "shaktipata-anusarena shishyonugraham arhati", which means: by entering the current of Divine Shakti's descent into the heart, the true disciple becomes capable of receiving grace. Anusara literally means to be in the flow. It is the current of the Divine, to flow with Grace. The philosophical basis of Anusara, as elucidated by Dr. Douglas Brooks, is called Rajanaka Yoga. |
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| jan 2004 at VIRAYOGA |
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last
month we defined
INNER
SPIRAL
[the third
of the five principles of Anusara Yoga]:
turning
in to facilitate expansion.
day to day we practice observing ourselves inwardly and ultimately creating our emotional attitude before we speak or act, as meticulously as we check our foundation and align ourselves before we expand and create an expression in any pose. this
month we'll focus on the fourth Universal principle,
the
action of OUTER SPIRAL
appropriate
for the beginning of a new year:
the
action of expansion to create stability.
physically;
[you
can check this out while standing with feet parallel]
from
the inner feet all the way up to the thighs, turn in to the midline
[inner spiral]
and
broaden the pelvic floor from front to back,
then
apply outer spiral:
keeping the inner spiral in the legs, root down through the tailbone, gently
expand the thighs to parallel to create
lift
in the pelvic floor and tone in the abdomen... and a buoyancy in
the heart.
we
do both actions equally to create eqanimity.
inner
and outer spiral are inseparable:
we
cannot do one without the other;
[check
for yourself- stand up and effect one of the two
and
you will sense the imbalance of the body].
in
our daily experience,
if
we speak or act without first considering
[checking in with ourselves, going inside], we'll
act impetuously and often inappropriately.
conversely,
if we only retreat inside and never interact with the world,
we
find ourselves too distanced, separate.
the
point is: do both, equally.
inner
spiral, then outer spiral.
when
you sense things are out of balance,
in a pose or in an interaction, carefully observe: then
blessings
elena, lynn and the staff of virayoga
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