? re rest between postures

[Guest guest]

Dear Kartar Kaur,

 

> My teacher taught that the prescribed rest time between postures is very

important, and my body feels that way too.

 

I absolutely agree!! I have my students let go, be silent and observe

between every exercise.

 

> At some classes I attend, the teacher does not give many rests. Also, > I

have a great Yoga video, but on this too, the teacher doesn't give as many

or as long rests as I am used to.

 

Yes this is very common -- the buldozer approach, which is very masculine

and excludes the feminine.

 

> Am I attaching too much importance to the rest?

 

NO. You are tuning into what is needed to circulate and integrate the

energy. Also this time can be used to cultivate consciousness. I have my

students pay attention to what is happening between exercises. We do the

exercises to have these moments of increased awareness. These prescious

moments are the jewels that we earn from doing the exercises.

 

If we do not learn to pay attention, our energy may shift, but we lose it

very quickly afterwards because we have not consolidated the energy with

conscious awareness.

 

Thanks for asking.

 

Gururattan Kaur

Coronado, CA

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Kartar Kaur,

That is correct, PAUSE the video. A rest of anywhere between 30

seconds and 3 minutes is recommended between postures, unless in the

description it specifically instructs you not to rest at all. With

Kundalini yoga it's sort of like surfing, there is a flow of energy and

if you wait to long too get on your board you'll miss the wave, so don't

rest too long. The energy and flow of each posture wants to followed by

the energy and flow of the next posture.

 

and now some words from Yogi Amrit Desai

WHEN YOU DO THE POSTURE, FLOW

 

Every time you finish a yoga posture, allow yourself to enter into

celebration of deep release. This period that follows the actual

performance of posture holding 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 and

attention on the third eye. 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 complementary 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.

 

 

kartarkaur wrote:

 

>

>

> Sat nam everybody,

> My teacher taught that the prescribed rest time between postures is

> very important, and my body feels that way too.

> At some classes I attend, the teacher does not give many rests. Also,

> I have a great Yoga video, but on this too, the teacher doesn't give

> as many or as long rests as I am used to. Of course I can stop the

> video and take my rest.

>

> I would like to know from the teachers out there, what do you think?

> Am I attaching too much importance to the rest?

> I was taught that we need to rest to circulate the energy and let our

> body adjust to it.

>

> Thanks,

> Kartar Kaur

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

thank you Gururattan and Dharam. I'm glad I asked.

and thank you Dharam for those beautiful words by Yogi Amrit Desai.

 

Kartar Kaur