So I´ve been getting back into yoga in the past two weeks..and it strikes me as a great discipline for personal transformation since it addresses the physical, the emotional and the spiritual aspects of life all in one practice.
During the classes I´ve taken in the past week, which have been pretty demanding for me, I´ve twice had the experience the teachers describe as experiencing relief through kiryas--poses--and it´s been amazing.
During one class, I was in this twisted up position which way opened the muscles of the hip and buttock and I suddenly had this sensation of accessing a muscle I literally had not worked since I was a child. And with that sensation came a feeling of huge release. And that feeling in turn, brought powerful tears, the kind of tears I cried when I was in therapy many years ago, during hard, scary work about loss and my early life.
Then, this morning, I was trying to get into an advance form of warrior pose and the teacher came and turned me and moved me so I was in the right position in the form. Literally, there I was, standing tall, turned in a way I´d never tried to move before, and it was as if someone unstopped the top of my head--I just felt the energy pour through!! And with that, as well, came a huge emotion and some tears because it was another kind of release, another feeling I had not had for many years--or, truly, maybe never.
My resolve after all this, of course, is to try to make yoga a more consistent part of my daily life, I will post on that as I try to make it happen.
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