The Order of the Pose
The Order of the Pose
Inspiration to expand the theme of this term came from a simple question.
“Does it matter what order the poses go”?
In reality a simple answer – no it doesn’t matter.
But wait there’s more………..
Perhaps to get the best from a yoga practice it may help to let the feeling body decide the order of the poses.
- Warming the muscles and joints.
- Slowly increasing the stretches and weight bearing.
- Continue to deepen the practice by increasing the number of repetitions or lenghthening the ‘hold’ in any one pose.
- Using the wisdom of the ‘feeling body’ to know which pose to move into next.
- A twist towards the end of the practice.
- Rest in a deeply releasing pose.
- Sit for a few minutes, breathe and reflect.
This is a general guideline to any practice, and also applicable to a sequencial flow.
Take a base sequence, one you love; and let your ‘feeling body’ decide where it wants to go from each pose to the next.
Moving from your inner wisdom takes you away from mentally planning and remembering a sequence; and also helps distract monkey mind because you are feeling and being rather than thinking and doing.
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