ashtanga yoga Sleep and Ashtanga

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Hi Margee!

you wrote: "I practice at 5:45am 5 days a week and during the day I

have a good amount of energy but, come 9pm I am exhausted. It takes

a lot of energy to do Ashtanga and create that fire within, so it is

only natural that your body will feel tired later."

 

Is it really true that we are practice something what we are going

exhausted and tired from? I can't believe! Why we are doing this? Why

you don't meditate, Zen or something like that. You'll get energy

also

there and will not get tired. It can't be a good method if it is

takes so much energy to create a fire, and afterwards this fire will

burn the body's energy away... There must be a misunderstanding. Are

we doing it in a incorrect manner, or is the method not good for the

human body?

 

PS I feel the same like you.

 

So this is not only kidding, it is a serious question I'm working

with. And I give you this simple example: When someone is really

relaxed (and I suppose you would say that relaxation is surely very

very important for the human body), so at the first look the face is

relaxed, the front, the eyes, the mouth. There are people with this

relaxed faces - but they don't practice Ashtanga! If you look to all

the books of our beloved Ashtanga teachers (only for example John

Scott, Liz Larke, Lino Miele, David Swenson and other) would you say

that their faces are relaxed? Take a look, it's amusing. If you can

explain, please do it! Lu