Yoga Practice Designed for You
Posted by Michele Harney, Yoga Rathgar & Dundrum – Dublin
“As a student, notice how putting a teacher on a pedestal affects your ability to see the teacher clearly and inhibits your ability to learn. As a teacher, notice if you enjoy being put on a pedestal. How does it feel to be considered important? Is your sense of self-worth dependant on the adoration of your students?”
Thought provoking quote from Donna Farhi
Posted by Michele Harney, Yoga Rathgar & Dundrum – Dublin
“Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information”
– TKV Desikachar
Posted by Michele Harney, Yoga Rathgar & Dundrum – Dublin
“The moment you are truly aware of your opposites, of both the positive and negative feelings toward any situation, then many tensions connected with that situation drop out, because the battle of opposites which created that tension is dissolves. On the other hand, the moment you lose unity of opposites, the awareness of both sides within yourself, then you split the opposites apart, erect a boundary between them, and thus render the ejected pole unconscious where it returns to plague you as a symptom. Since the opposites are always a unity, the only way they can be separated is by unconsciousness – selective inattention.”
–Ken Wilbur
Posted by Michele Harney, Yoga Rathgar & Dundrum – Dublin
“Yoga is a journey to be experienced. However, that journey not only requires patience and perseverance, but also enthusiasm and respect.
In this respect, as in any relationship between people, it is necessary to consider priorities. To students interested in undertaking a home practice with its attendant fruits, two suggestions are offered.
First, think of Yoga as acquiring a new book. Before you try to fit this book into what is probably an already overcrowded bookshelf, take a decision to remove an existing book to make room for the new one.
Do not, however, try to remove a large book thus making unrealistic adjustments in the space on your shelf (and thus unrealistic expectations around the space in your life). Instead, take out a slim volume and this way, create realistic space without Yoga becoming another pressure or something else that is jammed into the already overcrowded bookshelf of your life.
This leads on to the second suggestion.
Life is often divided into agendas, two of which are headed “chore” and “reward”. Try to keep some room on the latter list for your practice in the same way that you would greet an old friend. Take time in their company and return to your everyday life rejuvenated and better able to embrace your surroundings.”
– Paul Harvey 1996
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“The practice of Yoga āsana without the appropriate steps, and without the conscious regulation of breath, is fruitless.”
-T Krishnamacharya
Boredom is the effect of suppressing something.
When I’m bored, it’s because
there’s a thought or feeling inside
that is so intense or uncomfortable
that I can’t bring it out so I distance myself.
Then I become bored and lose focus.
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
-Khalil Gibran
“For Yoga Teachers it is important to understand
the movement of the mind as well as the body.”
– TKV Desikachar
“It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.”
James Gordon
“Āsana must have the dual qualities of alertness and relaxation. There must always be alertness without tension and relaxation without dullness or heaviness. These qualities are achieved by recognizing and observing the reactions of the body and breath to various postures”
TKV Desikachar – Health, Healing and Beyond