Meditation within Postures

Asana posture is the skill of stretching, flexing, and relaxing the physical body. It is listed as the third of eight processes in the ashtanga eight-staged practice of yoga, as defined by Patanjali.

Because he listed eight stages, he indicated that no one stage stands on its own. However, he gave a special term, samyama, as the three highest stages in progression, one to the other. These are dharana deliberate focus, dhyana spontaneous focus and samadhi continuous spontaneous absorption.

Yogeshwarananda informed me that when doing asana postures, a yogi should not hurry through the postures but should be inwardly focus during the assumption of a posture, so that there is a mapping of what is tensed, flexed, or relaxed.

Stated precisely, each posture has a particular energy released, with chaos and order happening. By holding the posture and focusing within the subtle body, the yogi will train the mind to appreciate the various energy configurations. These may terminate or evolve into absorption states, each depending on the specific pose assumed. There is a benefit, a particular one, which is derived from each pose. To realize that, one must remain in the posture, while focusing to find its energy release or containment behavior.

During the asana posture, one should focus within the psyche, recognize the energy journey and saturation. Then one should link into the tension and release behavior. This will result in samyama, meditative absorption which will be a samadhi continuous absorption on the particular zone. There may also be jumps into naad sound resonance which are inner loud screeching sounds which are used for holding to the samadhi continuous absorption.