Shuniya and Yoga

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WHEN YOU DO THE POSTURE (or meditation), FLOW

Each time you finish a posture/exercise, allow yourself to enter into

celebration of deep release. This period that follows the actual performance of

the posture is the other half of the posture. If you miss it, no matter how well

you have performed, you have gone only half way. Your integrative process is

most active in the interim period when you may think you have already finished.

Guide the released energy from unconscious holding patterns to the light of

consciousness. At the conclusion of each posture pause, relax and focus your

inward gaze, breath and attention on the navel and browpoint. Guiding the energy

released from body blocks to

the third eye is a very important part of the yoga posture.

Integration continues regardless of where you are - while actively engaged

in moving into or holding the posture, in transition, at rest, or in a

subsequent posture. When you are engaged in integrative consciousness, you are

in a spiritual posture that transcends your physical posture.

Feel your im-paired body-mind relationship being made whole, becoming one.

There is time for pose and there is time for repose. In repose, even when your

body is deeply relaxed and restfully non-active, you are in active integration.

This integration is triggered during the active conscious practice of posture

and consolidated at all other stages of your practice of yoga. There is no

conclusion to the posture when you are established in a posture of

consciousness.