{"id":309,"date":"2015-09-17T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-09-17T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:55:33","slug":"practicing-ashtanga-vinyasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been inspired to practice and encouraged to practice differently these days. \u00a0 It’s been hard to change old habits and to come to the practice with a new set of eyes. \u00a0To take what I thought was good enough for myself and to expand into new\u00a0depths of the practice. \u00a0I started to understand that these self imposed limitations may be just that – self imposed. \u00a0Could I go deeper, could I get through the discomfort and sometimes pain have been attached to? Was I able to see the light at the other side of whatever I was working on?<\/p>\n

This yoga practice, the Ashtanga yoga method is a wonderful tool that we have to work towards letting go and controlling the mind and to healing. The breath being the guide and this method of having one prescribed movement with each breath. \u00a0I thought about\u00a0what the description of vinyasa is and what we say when we refer to Ashtanga as a vinyasa system of moving with the breath. \u00a0The key point that one may ask is; What is the harm in taking an extra breath here and there? What about taking our time getting into poses and even getting out of them? We are still moving and breathing. \u00a0For me, it gave me an opportunity to dwell and to think and to do something besides what I set out to do . . . YOGA. \u00a0 I understood that every time my hand went down to the floor to touch habitually, every time I looked down or I did something else like touch my hair and clothes, that I was just using delay tactics. \u00a0I was stalling. \u00a0I always thought that I respected the vinyasa of the Ashtanga method . . . the primary series at least. I may have respected it but I wasn’t doing it.<\/p>\n

I have been working on actually doing it for a few months now with a teacher. \u00a0She is a rock and is instilling in me techniques that I am able to incorporate into practice and translate. \u00a0She doesn’t see or believe in my limitations and only shares in the possibilities. \u00a0In actuality they are only my self imposed limitations and her strength and “apana” is catchy. \u00a0The firmness is catchy and after years into this practice I am amazed at the power of the practice to heal. \u00a0It has been a challenge for me. \u00a0I knew it was doable and instead of being disappointed in myself because I could not do it, I kept trying. \u00a0I have to keep reminding myself\u00a0to let go of judgements and expectations and my thinking. \u00a0 \u00a0The prescription is the practice. \u00a0Today I had FUN.<\/p>\n

It is a continual ebb and flow just like your days at the home, office or studio. \u00a0Enjoy the ride!<\/p>\n

\"virbradrasana\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sill working on utthita trikonasana<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Credit: \u00a0Christine L\u00f8ve Hewitt\/Mysore 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

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I have been inspired to practice and encouraged to practice differently these days. \u00a0 It’s been hard to change old habits and to come to the practice with a new set of eyes. \u00a0To take what I thought was good enough for myself and to expand into new\u00a0depths of the practice. \u00a0I started to understand … Continue reading Practicing Ashtanga Vinyasa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-mat-at-aym"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}