Unlocking of self...

So I was watching all the students on Monday of this week, it's Wednesday now. I do this daily but that day I really got an insight. It was after the room got full, maybe 15 people in it, and they were all moving, some in Surya Namaskaram, some in Marichasanas, some in closing, all at different points in the series and I realized that this is like a DNA code of sorts.

We are all doing this sequencing, which like a DNA sequence, can unlock you. What does that mean? Who knows, maybe unlock your physical body. I've always thought of it as a sequence that opens up my body in a certain way and when you're ready and doing a different series you've opened up to a new level. Or the mind? Yes, also the mind. Within the sequencing an unlocking also starts to happen in the mind, which is the real and true work of yoga anyhow. In the emotions? Yes, the emotional body definitely has much benefit from the asana practice. In one way it affects the endocrine systems and balances out the hormones produced from each gland in doing so.

There are many levels of unlocking going on. But first being such a physical practice, that level is what we might notice. I certainly did, some might notice other things first and I think there is no one hard and fast rule to it, but once my physical body was more relaxed and open, then the deeper inner work was able to start. My back was really bad and now is not so much.

The biggest thing I see shift in others is on the emotional and energetic levels. Many doubt these things about a yoga practice, but I've experienced it within my own and have seen it in my friends who I've gone to Mysore with and students I've watched over time. It's also the most beneficial because this is where much of our "stuff" lies. Our issues get stored in our body and then through the vinyasa system, the specific placing of the body in a way with deep breathing unlocks us on that deeper level, perhaps on the DNA level and our buried things are no longer happy being pushed aside and want to be front and centre, so keep coming to the forefront of our mind until we work through the root cause of it.

It's all good, and I don't have some major thing to say. If you want that you can look up John Scott's interviews at Purple Valley where he even gets into the vinyasa count and how it affects everything, quite brilliant, but I've just had my own mini aha moment so was happy to share it even though it's only a little bit so far.

I see the connections more and more in things these days and just now realised John Scott had said all this some years back and that it connects to my moment as well, it's so interesting all this stuff. Really all this yoga stuff I mean.

How it works, how it feels, how it changes, how you change, how you see those around you change, how you feel about the change, how your mind is calmer, how your body is more soft and relaxed, how, how, how... I could go on forever. There seems to be no end to the shifts and growth that happens just from doing this strange stuff, but I love it!