The picture above this article may look beautiful, but what is happening in my body in the picture? I changed greatly from that picture and grew. Why this happened, and why you might want to learn about yourself as well.
I remember asking my teacher about the alignment I was asked to maintain in order to enter Urdhva Danurasana (Wheel pose). My intuition cried out that my shoulder was doing what I was asked for was incorrect and every time I posed, my shoulders jumped and clicked. She needed my shoulders just open as my shoulders were the gymnasts' shoulder, and assured me that they needed to adapt to yoga practice. If I was dedicated and devoted to that work, it would come naturally to me one day.
How can you confirm intuition and body recognition with the door by abandoning intuitive self-recognition? Well, I did it for many reasons, but a big, obvious one is that my body has come up with the idea that there is a way to do what I was asked to do. If I worked hard enough and was perfect enough, at the end of all of that effort probably I believed that I would find some relief in my body and some relief in my heart It was.
I was looking for ways to deal with my mind and all its struggles. That led me to yoga. And in the state I wanted, I forgot that I am unique. I forgot that there is an answer already. As long as I trust myself and make clever and personal choices, I have forgotten to be my best teacher. The only thing I needed to bring peace to my heart was to accept my existing perfection as a person, composed of both shadow and light.
For my gym practice, I bought an alignment model and a visual position external to the pose as important. I also learned to teach like that. I invested heavily in learning anatomy and dynamics, but my students are also individuals, I promote space that I can choose through my personal experience and I can choose my responsibility at my own risk It was my job. It was prudent for them, no matter how unique that choice compared to everyone else.
I was good at advancing most people with poses. I was good at making the room look just right. I was known for its ability to express clearly how to align. My students were mostly pictures of the completeness of yoga poses. To the viewer's eyes, the class looked like a yoga video shoot. It is except for a few people I could not hear. But I was convinced that they will get there by hard work. Also.
Then, the day the whole intuitive warning sign that allowed me to ignore and accumulate came was called. I do a happy baby, grab my knee on the ground, drop the coccyx as I was taught, turn it over to a child's pose and then enter a downward dog and I can not straighten my knee anymore did. Burning pain was shot down to the back of my left foot and head. Within minutes my I began to cry.
Next, I was able to disassemble everything I believed in 3 months of debilitating neuralgia, two recurrences, and three years, and then rebuild it in a better way.
I learned to the students in the room where I can not be asked, can not look like a picture, and most importantly where I like being in the class. There is no substitute for what other groups do. I learned what it is like to be a strange person, and I learned how much it made me feel it.
I continued to pledge to assure that my students do not have to experience the injuries and isolations I encountered. I promised to teach in different ways, and to respond to all bodies, all abilities and vulnerabilities. I choose to teach in a way that allows each person to visit the deepest layers of my experience and personality, and to explore their body and mind in personal and profound ways. What it is incredibly valuable for me to teach in this new way is the moment of self-acceptance that students and teachers come in.
Since the context is everything, I start with the philosophy and history of yoga. If you practice yoga you need to tell yoga as a philosophy. Through group discussions, activities and exercises, we will explore what yoga practice is and what it means, making concrete and applicable esoteric philosophy through personal experience.
Then we move to the body and discuss the state of the nervous system, hyperkinesia, and the lines and skeleton of the unique structural tension / posture of each body. After covering the deepest layer, we begin to work outward while learning the functional range of motion of each joint area of the body. The functional scope is compared with the individual movable range of each student. This is always connected at the moment of my favorite bulb. We generally rewrite the poses taught in classes to fit within the functional range of people. Then pose poses that are not working for people and create choices that serve the same purpose.
Discovery that the students discovered about their bodies and minds and the potential length actually allowed by these realizations make me happy every time. Students are worth knowing how much they are able to do, what is not meaningful to them, and for their grace of accepting it.
If you are unique, and there is nothing you need to modify something about yourself except for the idea that changing something will make you more perfect than you already are. What happens if it is worth keeping everything as it is This is what I want for all my students
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