'Inner Self' Benifits? Any Tips / Giudelines……

Hi Anna

It’s great to hear about what’s going on for you – so satisfying and enriching!

Part of the thing about yoga is that you learn to respond more and think less. So the very idea that you should think more about it kind of flies in the face of simply responding.

We all have our ‘aha’ moments and our reflections and yes they come in thoughts and even realizations that don’t involve thoughts but are more gestalt experiences. So ALLOW your realizations and reflections to come to you. Read interesting books (or not!). Have conversations with people (or not!). Have an intention to deepen your practice and the benefits without prescribing how it will happen. Let go of the details and let it flow.

There is no ‘way’ to do it but yoga is definitely a fabulous tool to facilitate it.

Chakras, subtle energies, meridians and thousands of other terminologies are ways that we humans like to create some kind of understanding about what’s going on. And in yoga we talk about physical and energetic blocks. So if you subscribe to the concept of chakras, then poses are a way to open up these energetic channels. Visualizations help. Yoga asana is a way to access parts of your physical and energetic body that need and crave attention. Whatever you call it, however you picture it, creating that access through your yoga is what works. So just check into your sensations with or without the idea of chakras. Your attention is what matters not necessarily the reasoning behind it.

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂