Guest guest Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Thanks for your email. Hopefully I can rest in shavasana peacefully someday. This is the most difficult poses for me. My mind wanders everywhere and I just can't relax. So instead I end my practice with some other pose that does relax me. The thing is I am afraid that if I do relax, I will defintely go into an indefinite blissful sleep. And this can be embarassing when everyone else is awake and I am in my dreamland. So I can't relax in this one. Gayathri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 > am afraid that if I do relax, I will > defintely go into an indefinite blissful sleep. And > this can be embarassing when everyone else is awake > and I am in my dreamland. So I can't relax in this > one. that is too bad. So why are you so concerned with what other people will feel about you, they all have their own ³battles² with entering the dream land. I find it the most wonderful thing to be swept at the end into that dream land, while my body all tingles from exhaustion and bathes in prana. My advice is RELAX!!! and wonder off, I think they scared us too much with what we should or shouldn¹t do in savasana, to the point that we are afraid to let go!! JUST LET GO!!! and see what happens!!! jana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 i agree with you jana....i haven't always been able to let go completely in savasana but when i have,and sometimes to the point where i did fall asleep,it has been a powerful thing. letting go in savasana can make what you did in your practice even better. even if you had a really bad practice. the point is to let go and become unattached. wake up the next day and do the practice and then let it go.I think that is the whole point to yoga,being in the moment and then being able to let it go once it's gone. i think it allows one to get the most out of every moment,every day, in whatever it is that you are doing! I need to remind myself of this often, so as not to let the judging mind in , rather just be in that space and time. Experiencing that,wether it be a happy moment or a sad moment. i don't know if that makes sense,but that is how i have experienced it! Namaste,Dean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Yeah you are right. There were few times when I didn't wake up for 10 minutes after the class ended. And the teacher had to wake me up. Few students took a crack at me and ever since I never relaxed in a class Savasana:( :-)) Gayathri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 Not that I recommend worrying about falling asleep during corpse pose, but if you approach the posture remembering that you are assuming the posture of a corpse, and stay in the mindframe of achieving the closest semblance to a corpse that you can, the tiny, shallow almost nonexistent breathing, the very still mind, there is a kind of very small but important deep internal focus that seems to keep one from shifting over to the sleep state, which is quite different with its deep slow breathing. Even in relaxation breath is compass and key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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