1) Muladhara, Root Support Return to your foundation, connect to Prthivi, Mother Earth. Contemplate her as the giver of support nourisher from the roots upwards, the inexhaustible source of abundance. 2) Heed Krishnas Advice Adversity is your ally, your grinding stone. Relish in difficulty. Go inward into the battle and fight ardently to eliminate your internal and external obstacles. 3) Strike the Immovable Spot Stop the body. Eliminate all movement. Your stance: solid, clear, well founded, unwavering, pure earth, immovable. 4) Throw the Dice Weight the odds, take a chance, calculate and leap, dare to lay your spiritual fire on the line. Seek the unknown, the new – consciously extend your physical, psychological, and spiritual limits. 5) Be the Tortoise Radically stubborn, infinitely patient, religiously consistent, devotedly persistent. 6) A Love Supreme Love your posture, even the asana that challenges you most. It is uniquely your own, rare, original, independent, singular, IT. 7) Bhuta Jaya! Lose your personality. You are fire, air, earth, water, and space. Your asanas are simply expressions of pure elemental forces. 8) Eat…. better, smarter, less, not at night. 9) Vayu Siddhi No matter what, breathe. Breathe through struggle and bliss. Let breath live within you in its infinite variety – let it entirely express you now. Repeat this mantra, whole body breath. 10) Like Mahaveer Ever ready to serve the Self, as dynamic, poised, confident, faithful, and humble as that great, loyal, devoted Monkey. 11) Crouch and …… Anticipate, get ready, strategize, awaken, enjoy the crouch before the spring. 12) Blaze like 10 Million Moons Arrange your bones, align your skeleton, light up the glorious axis in the middle. 13) Steps to Nirvana Find the tiny step in the progression that leads to mastery. Drop ego, forget the distant endpoint, work where you are, neither ahead nor behind. 14) A Shiva half smile. Be like Shiva meditating, sitting like stone utterly silent, still, impenetrable, except for a sly, Mona Lisa half smile across his lips, a hint of irony, a wink, a nonchalant aura of unshakable cool–no matter what. 15) Indriya Siddhi Continuously watch, listen, feel, taste, and smell internally. Experience your inner world with lucid clarity. Your voice, hands, feet, loins, and bowels are instruments for awareness, and for confining prana inside the body. 16) Thy Will Not Mine Drop resistance, trust in another source, let go of your will, break apart, loosen, soften, release, receive, become free. Asana vidya comes effortlessly.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:50:22 +0000