Yoga Life Book
Page 17
Yoga - Yoga Flow
There is a natural self full of power and gracefulness
within you which is the key to your well-being.
Ancient cultures
developed techniques to bring their people to the heights of their
individual awareness, power and creativity. Sources of power our
science does not yet admit exist were tapped in those times, enhancing
the health and strength of the population. This is not merely legend,
for some of those techniques exist today. Yoga Flow is a series
of techniques designed to tap into and channel the powers of nature,
both within and around us.
We love to watch clouds drifting in the
sky or a puff of smoke gently swirling in the still air. The gentle
soaring of a seagull fills us with a calm feeling. If only we could
feel so calm within ourselves all the time. Yoga Flow is a slow
relaxing series of movements designed to develop calmness, peace
and gentleness within us.
Slow, flowing movements of the body create
an internal environment conducive to good health. Your mind relaxes
as your muscles relax, and the emotions soon follow suit. And yet
the senses are still crisp and clear.
As you develop the smoothness
of motion, your body begins to feel more liquid than solid. Feelings
of rigidity fade away and you experience yourself in a new way.
No longer does tension trap and harass you.
Yoga Flow develops gracefulness
and a feeling of peace. It frees your attention from the jerky
movements of the thinking process and allows it to operate in a smooth,
graceful manner. By slowly and carefully releasing the body from
its cage of repression and integrating it with the mind, Yoga Flow
ends one of the basic conflicts of our lives. By allowing creativity
to flourish, it develops the energy of enthusiasm and makes life
worth living.
When practicing Yoga Flow our attention is focused
on the present moment. Often in life, we are so caught up in concentrating
on the past and future that we miss the present. And truly, the
present is all that exists for us. In the present, we have
power.
Adapted from Movements of Magic, by Bob Klien
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