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[yogadaily]

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[atharvyogshala]

Backbends help counteract the damage of bad posture by bending the spine in a direction it isn’t used to. They help to realign our vertebrae while at the same time stimulating the sympathetic nervous system. They open the chest, lengthen the spine and strengthen the upper back, all of which make our posture more straight.⁣ ⁣ Think of all the times you spend bending forward in a day. Whether you’re driving, eating at a table, typing at a computer, cleaning, or gardening, it is likely that you are spending a majority of your day in an unsupported forward bend. And for this reason, you need to practice backbends every day.⁣ ⁣ Too much forward bending, and as a result, poor posture, can lead to:⁣ • Back and neck pain⁣ • Restricted blood-flow to vital organs and glands (preventing them from working as they should)⁣ • Negative effects on self-esteem and mood⁣ ⁣ What most people fail to recognize is that our backs are meant to move in all directions – forward and back. Back-bending is actually a natural range of motion for the spine – take a look at children or monkeys, for instance. They have the ability to move their spine in more ways than you could imagine! Fluid and without restriction.⁣ ⁣ The posterior part of your spinal column is compressed as you bend backwards, which helps push the disks in your vertebrae away from the spinal nerves, and decompresses the front of the vertebrae. As a result, the damage from forwarding bending (over time) can be reversed.⁣

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[vinyasayogaacademyinrishikesh]

Vrikshasana or Tree Pose is a balancing asana. It is one of the very few standing poses in medieval hatha yoga and remains popular in modern yoga as exercise, which one doing our beloved student during the Vashista Cave Excursion.

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[masashtangayog]

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[indian-yoga-girl]

Sunday blooms & Meditations! Some turn into edible fruits, some are showy and there for their beauty alone. Both are appreciated by me 😊 Thank you to the folks who joined my virtual asana class this morning. 🙏🏽 May your day and long weekend be joyful. #hariohm #mygardenblooms #yogalifestyle #yogateacherlife #asanapractice #vinyasaflow #virtualclasses #pandemiclife #gardeningenthusiast #backyardlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CEzrW2rDj3z/?igshid=9rt0044cor9d

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[mindfullofyoga]

‘We’re all just walking each other home’.

It is one of Ram Dass’ most famous lines, from his book “Walking each other Home”. After years of hearing the phrase in Svaha Yoga classes, I am still moved by it with every encounter. Why is this short line so powerful? What does this phrase mean, in relation to yoga philosophy? How does ‘walking each other home’ relate to yoga practice, on the mat and in everyday life?

The image that Ram Dass’ sentence evokes is of the warmth, belonging, and safety of ‘home’. It implies a journey and an arrival, of returning home after completion of an arduous trip. Of course, in metaphorical terms Ram Dass’ phrase symbolizes a spiritual journey, and he deploys it in discussions of love, and of death. In this light the line suggests the traveler ‘coming home’ as the journey of the individual seeking personal liberation, spiritual union, or god consciousness.

But Ram Dass’ phrase has an interesting implication – if we are walking each other home, then we are not yet home. We are on the road, still journeying towards the destination. This is quite a contrast with other elements of yoga philosophy, which might be better summed up as the idea that we are all, always, already ‘home’. The non-dualist approach would indicate that the goal is not to get home but to realize that we are home. What is there to make of this paradox? Can we be on the way home, and already home, at the same time?

The resolution to this paradox lies in reading the sentence in its entirety. Ram Dass’ statement is about more than the homecoming metaphor alone; the key is that we are all walking each other home. There is an element of togetherness, collectivity and support in our seeking: it works when we do it together. This is the element that resolves the tension between the journey as both ‘coming home’ and ‘realizing we are already home’. If home is the realization of our mutual interdependence, our interconnection, then the liberating dissolution of the self in union with the universal is both the home towards which we walk and the journey itself. Home is walking together. And for sure this translates to asana practice, and suggests what physical practice and yoga classes have to offer beyond a good workout. After all, the attentive bodily movement that constitutes asana can feel like a homecoming - to the body, to the breath, to the heart. This too, is less an arrival from afar than a realization that we were always home to begin with. It is a model for the spiritual coming home which Ram Dass references. Moreover, practicing together supports that realization or that homecoming. When I sit, or chant, or breathe and move in a Svaha Yoga class, I am aware of the being next to me also sitting, chanting, breathing. I’m aware that we are exchanging the same air, that we are connected. And I’m reminded to pay attention to my own breath, a focus that returns me home to my body and Self. This support allows the physical practice to come alive and become transformative. It transforms ‘exercising while listening to some interesting thoughts from Ram Dass’, into actually practicing, with breath and body. In this manner the yoga practices, or even a yoga class, can become the powerful act to which Ram Dass refers, in which we are all just walking each other home.

Alex Niemeijer Brown, Teacher / Lecturer  Svaha Yoga Amsterdam

[katharinableinis]

The body is the ultimate machine; the perfect state-of-the-art gadget.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Life has a million ways to challenge it. It bends you, breaks you, shapes you, kneads you, and grinds you in all aspects. And with all this, the body continues to adapt. The more you learn about your body, the better you get at using it in all its dimensions - physically, mentally, and spiritually. That’s the greatest feature of our state-of-the-art body!