Tuesday, September 18, 2012
"let your exhalations draw you in"- practice post 4
As we have seen in class, Savasana is one of my specialties. ;) God has definitely given this pose to me, as Dr. Schultz says. I know that we all love doing this pose. The one part of the pose that stumps me every time, is the breathing exercises. Dr. Schultz always talks us through the breathing. She says, "let your exhalations draw your attention in to the inner most parts of yourself" and then ends by saying, "let your inhalations draw your attention back out." These phrases always confuse me. I don't quite understand how to let my exhalations draw me in; or let my inhalations draw me out. I find myself focusing on how to focus inside when I'm breathing out. It makes much more sense to me to follow my inhalations in and my exhalations. Anyone have any advice or thoughts about this?
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BKS iyengar talks of exhalation in terms of surrendering the self to the lord and inhalations as taking energy from the lord. You are right that there is a sort of paradox of movement in the instructions.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the exact same thing. I have trouble using my exhalations to draw myself in. It seems backwards to me. I'm gonna try to work on it today in class though. I must say that savasana is my favorite pose as well. It's so relaxing for me.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about that, I'm always just so happy to be in corpse pose. But I see how it does seem to be opposites, my inhalations seem to draw me in rather than out. Dr. Schultz's comments makes more sense though, the inhalations are us taking the energy from the lord. It's more draw him in and draw yourself out?
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