Undoing the body

Practising asana often involves an approach where the body moves into a posture. It’s something you do.

Whichever form and style you practise, there are two fundamental differences to how you approach postures.

Technicalities aside, HOW you practise stems from one of two perspectives...

1 - DOING
You move your body into a posture. This often involves muscles, pushing, athleticism, reward, ambition, physical attributes. You 'do' the pose.

There is another approach.

And this comes from the place of knowing that each asana already resides inside the body.

Like a lump of stone, the sculpture is already inside it, patiently waiting to be discovered. By removing the rock, the sculpture is revealed. The same with a musical instrument. The music is already within it. Each of us pulls it out in our own way.

And it's the same with asana.

When you remove the hardness, the physical, the pushing, the reward, the ambition, the DOING and instead UNDO the body, you reveal a posture that’s much lighter, more spacious, less effortful and comes from the heart.

A reliance on muscular strength and power means the energy is hard, explosive, extinguishes quickly.

We are a multidimensional beings.
When you bring together energy, mind, heart, the physical and re-organise these in a way that the body is pulled into a posture (not pushed), asana is lighter, more spacious and less effortful be it full-arm balance, backbends or standing postures.
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Simply by changing the approach I’ve seen students experience more grace, movement and lightness in postures that previously felt heavy, contracted and physical.

You can apply this to any system of Yoga.

It involves whole body cooperation: physical, energy, mental, heart.

During this immersion you’ll uncover and weave together a range of asana through un-doing the body: removing the hardness to experience greater freedom and lightness in the whole body system

I look forward to sharing x