Pose, and Repose

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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.

 

--Yogi Amrit Desai aka Gurudev