This
blog is written for those who are interested in Yoga.
For those who feel the desire to approach to it and either for those who are already practicing some methods (or even teach them to someone else).
Most of the time when you attend a Yoga class, a little bit or nothing is explained. It is often suggested to just copy what the teacher performs.
I kindly ask you to follow me in this simple example: if you want to learn how to drive a car, the driving school does not tell you just only to copy what the teacher does, but you must learn a large number of things related to the car itself and also the driving principles;
all of this is usually explained
thoroughly, thus everybody listen and then learn. Just to name a few,
you are told how to use the equipment, the foot pedals, how the
engine works, such as fuel use, what the signs mean, which are the
traffic rules, how to have a safe driving, etc.. Then you are
brought to familiarize yourself with a gradual and direct
experience of what you have previously learned in theory.
With regard to the Yoga practice, it is curiously believed that the ability to manage better yourself at all levels (physical, psychological, emotional, character, energy, mental and spiritual) – i.e. the ability to acquire the know how in order to perfectly drive the super complex machine that we actually are (that is by the way one of the main purposes of the Yoga techniques) – could be achieved just copying some exercises, sometimes weird, executed by some people.
To understand the Yoga techniques and to gradually acquire the benefits at all levels are needed many theoretical explanations and experiments on ourselves, done with our body but not only; at the same time many other mechanisms that are part of our complexity can and should be put in action.
Just only so there is knowledge, progress and deep benefits!
For those who feel the desire to approach to it and either for those who are already practicing some methods (or even teach them to someone else).
Most of the time when you attend a Yoga class, a little bit or nothing is explained. It is often suggested to just copy what the teacher performs.
I kindly ask you to follow me in this simple example: if you want to learn how to drive a car, the driving school does not tell you just only to copy what the teacher does, but you must learn a large number of things related to the car itself and also the driving principles;
all of this is usually explained
thoroughly, thus everybody listen and then learn. Just to name a few,
you are told how to use the equipment, the foot pedals, how the
engine works, such as fuel use, what the signs mean, which are the
traffic rules, how to have a safe driving, etc.. Then you are
brought to familiarize yourself with a gradual and direct
experience of what you have previously learned in theory.With regard to the Yoga practice, it is curiously believed that the ability to manage better yourself at all levels (physical, psychological, emotional, character, energy, mental and spiritual) – i.e. the ability to acquire the know how in order to perfectly drive the super complex machine that we actually are (that is by the way one of the main purposes of the Yoga techniques) – could be achieved just copying some exercises, sometimes weird, executed by some people.
To understand the Yoga techniques and to gradually acquire the benefits at all levels are needed many theoretical explanations and experiments on ourselves, done with our body but not only; at the same time many other mechanisms that are part of our complexity can and should be put in action.
Just only so there is knowledge, progress and deep benefits!
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