Before I got into yoga, I never knew about the importance of breathing.
As I progress in my learning, I came to realize that being conscious of your breath is not a simple thing to do and it helps you to be focused. Usually when I am very tired after doing a pose or a sequence of poses, I found that it was due to the shortness of breath or rather losing control of breathing… especially when you get too obsessed with getting the pose right or perfect.
I do miss the teachings of anusara yoga styled classes. As time passes, I am beginning to forget slowly the teachings of anusara yoga. Everytime I step onto a mat, I try to recall what Bo has taught in his classes back then. But time is a powerful “eraser”… now the only things that keep me reminded of Anusara are these :
It’s truly was a great moment when the Singapore table tennis team overcame the Koreans to secure the placing in the finals of the women’s table tennis team finals. It really was.
I saw the match and it was really a nail biting ( I was waiting for my turn to get my poor overworked laptop fixed ) match. When they won, I felt a great sense of pride. Yes, a confirmed medal… a silver at the least but more importantly the chance of a gold medal.
You can be present everywhere that you chose to but being present is something else.
Being present when you are eating, talking to your friends, practising yoga is not very easy. I often find images of unrelated events and thoughts drifting in and out of my head unwittingly. Sometimes it just pops up and my mind will follow that thought ( hence train of thought? ) and then I will notice and snap myself back into present.
Being present takes more effort and practice. Hence the importance of meditation to train your mind, to be in control of your thoughts by your conscious mind. It is definitely something that we cannot develop overnight.
Shoulder openings – definitely what I need!
Most people work at a desk and hence, most of the time, they hunched they shoulders forward when they type or work at their PC. It is no wonder that many people developed a hunch back. I used to be one of them before I start going for yoga classes. It was a pretty ugly hunch and it makes me look even shorter than my already short height.
However, luckily for me, I discovered yoga and have since corrected the years of “torture” that I have inflicted on my shoulders. I count my blessings everyday!
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