Emotional Yoga: How the Body Can Heal the Mind
Bija Bennett
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0684862778
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Drawing on her extensive training in yoga therapy, dance, and meditation, Bija Bennett has created a groundbreaking yoga program that takes full advantage of the body-mind connection.
Based on the classical eightfold path of yoga, Emotional Yoga offers a broad range of simple body-mind techniques that can positively affect our emotional well-being, including the dynamic interplay of movements, breathing exercises, meditations, lifestyle skills, rituals, gestures, and healing sounds. Each technique is presented in a way that is true to Bennett's background in the tradition of Viniyoga, which allows the reader to adapt the program to his or her specific needs.
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first have to give them your attention. Then you move closer to them by participating or interacting with them. You get a dialogue going. Eventually, you’ll find yourself in an intimate relationship with them. An Interesting Conversation Your emotions are a communications center. They keep you awake and aware. Hello? Are you there? Have a conversation with yourself right now. Ask yourself: What am I feeling in my body? Is it okay to be feeling the way I do? Then, take responsibility for what
combine the practices of repeating the movement and staying in the pose. For example, you may repeat a pose by moving in and out of it a few times to warm up your body and prepare yourself to stay. Then you can hold the pose for a few breaths and repeat the cycle. In the asana practices that follow, you will never actually “arrive” at a pose. On a deeper level, there is no such thing as a pose at all. The asanas are only moments flowing through you. 3. Sequencing Sequencing means arranging the
spine lengthened, arms overhead. EXHALE bend forward, slightly bending your knees, bring your chest toward your thighs, hands holding your feet. INHALE lift your arms and chest forward and up, flattening your upper back as you come up, arms overhead. REPEAT 4 times, then stay in the forward bend for 4 breaths. While staying in the posture, extend your spine on inhalation, lifting your chest slightly. On exhalation, tighten your belly, deepening the forward bend. INHALE EXHALE 11. Dvipada
Sabbath says: Stop now. If you stop and rest, you give yourself the opportunity to check in with yourself and your emotions. Stopping may be your emotional meditation for the day. Notice the difference between stopping and letting yourself continue to be busy. If you keep jumping around, it’s hard to find any kind of emotional harmony within. Surrender to rest. Turn your mind gently inward and allow the tensions to leave. Then you can hear what is most deeply true. This is pratyahara, choosing
within us and without. Like playing the various tones of a musical scale, when we attune ourselves to a deeper flow of energy and awareness, we create internal transformation and change that are inherently harmonious with our true natures. The teachings and practices of the eight limbs are: 1. Intelligent Behaviors 2. Personal Attitudes 3. Bodily Exercise 4. Conscious Breathing 5. Sensory Awareness 6. Focusing Attention 7. Sustaining Attention 8. Increasing Wholeness These practices