Guest guest Posted October 5, 2000 Report Share Posted October 5, 2000 Practice according to the tradition. Practice every day at the same hour each day. Take a shower before you practice - you will be more flexible. Ladies, take full rest for three days of your "holiday" - you will be more rested and energetic in the month that follows and thus more regular in your practice. Go to bed at the same time each night. Do not eat 12 hours before you will practice. Thus, if you practice at 7am, be done eating by 7pm and make your evening meal a light one. Then your meal will be digested and you can more easily lighten you bowel in the morning and therefore take advantage of mula bandha.<br>Each day that you take off, each pose that you hurry through or skip, is an opportunity for the mind to stay a bit lazy and for old habits to die hard.<br>Believe it or not - a yoga lifestyle is fun! What is difficult is alternating between nights of booze and debauchery and morning attempts at yoga practice. Somethings gotta give. The yoga path cultivates a higher taste. Have faith, take a chance - purify the quality of your mind and thoughts and relationships. <br>enjoy<br>m.p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2001 Report Share Posted August 19, 2001 I have a comment about daily practice - and this is my opinion because I use my mind to formulate some of my own ideas instead of 'blindly' following groupthink.<br><br>A daily practice for maybe 2-4 years provides for the body to sit in padmasana or sidhasana to practice pranayama and meditation. Once you get to this phase, the physical practice supplements the mental. From the mental you move to the spiritual, and by this time you are getting older and the physical postures start to decline in importance. (do you see Gurujii doing a backbend and struggling to grab his ankles, now?)<br><br>I sorry to state that so many of you ashtangis are really caught up in the physcial aspects of this practice! Learn that ashtanga teaches you to move from the external into the internal and quit getting so caught up in "where the foot should be positioned". Sure Gurujii will adjust you...but he is looking at your unique body/mind struggle! <br> Even now (and I just returned from Mysore) Gurujii is changing some of the postures. <br>Don't get so hung up on these minor physical details! Allow room for individualtiy, self exploration, intuition, and self-growth.<br><br>Why limit every posture to finite details?<br><br>Remember: the universe is very large. Open your minds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2001 Report Share Posted August 19, 2001 A good point about getting hung up in these detail fights. Guruji is looking at your over all situation. It is not that uncommon to hear things change up a bit in Mysore from time to time as those who have been around a while can attest. Many times the latest "correct way" depends on the last book written or hot teacher of the months most recent proclamation. Listen to what the Guru tells you personally but don't assume that everyone is identical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2001 Report Share Posted August 19, 2001 Oh divine yoga sage,<br>If you knew anything about me or if you had been reading this board for more than a few weeks, you would know how LITTLE I neeed your unsolicited advise. I f you can open YOUR mind and actually READ the post you were pontificating about, you would realize that the position of my foot is not the detail in question, nor is it the issue at hand. It is too bad that so many silly people like you who, now that they have been to Mysore, believe you are in a position to give poor deluded 'hung up' people like me serious advise about our practice.<br><br>Go rub your chain with crumbs, fool, and mind your own practice. <br><br>And you can be sure that in doing this you would not be blindly following groupthink. They are special instructions I made up just for you. Use your mind and formulate your own opinion about that, OK?<br><br>From a peon in an ever growing large universe,<br>FBL<br><br>PS What is YOUR unique body-mind struggle? Trouble taking your own advise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2001 Report Share Posted August 19, 2001 Oh dear mulabandasana babe,<br>It was a room of over 200 people that got this special advise. That's not the point, anyway. Zero tolerance for wannabe fake ashtanga instructors. They are the demon seed.<br>FBL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 19, 2001 Report Share Posted August 19, 2001 I suggest you re-read your response to find what the body-mind struggle might be for you. We all have one.<br>twochant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2001 Report Share Posted August 20, 2001 Well I don't know the instuctors in question but it seems like a minor point to make them horrific demons. Oh well, just as you wish.<br>Could it be that in a workshop of hundreds of people it may be hard to get the Guru's exact instuction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2001 Report Share Posted August 20, 2001 Dear Twochant,<br>Go practice in the traffic.<br>FBL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2001 Report Share Posted August 20, 2001 Are you completely thick or just determined to beat a dead horse?<br>FBL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2001 Report Share Posted August 20, 2001 Hey funkybadlady,<br>Guess what? I do practice in the traffic! It took a long time to get centered and concentrate, but once I got those balance postures nothing could distract me!<br>twochant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 20, 2001 Report Share Posted August 20, 2001 Neither one, just wondering what qualifies you as any kind of expert on ashtanga teachers or anything else for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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