Morning Practice - 6/17/2012

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Date:  Posted 3 years before Mar 13, 2016

Alfredo 3 years ago

स्वाध्याय: Studied Meditation Pictorial to start aligning the meditation to MB's teachings. I have always done Svādhyāya before morning practices for a minimum of 1/2 hour.

प्राणायाम: 1/2 hour kapalabhati, trying to tighten up practice applying proper bhandas. I am still developing different postures, but now I used for the first time the principle of "point stress", meaning the ability of directing attention to a point of stress on the body brought by a specific asana. The whole practice focuses on infusing air to navel and below to groin. I take notes at the end.

Meditation: Went about using instructions in 1st Chapter of Meditation Pictorial.

MiBeloved 3 years ago

The process of (स्वाध्याय) Svādhyāya study of authoritive text about yoga is a must for students. In the West this was not stressed even by most of the yogis who came and set up ashrams. At one place, though which is the Hare Krishna Movement, this is complied with day after day in their morning class but they do not practice the ashtanga yoga system.

Some western students who have bought into the idea that ancient Indian texts are interpolated or changed use that as a hedge so that they do not study these texts seriously. They maintain doubts about the authorship of these books and protect themselves from having to take these texts seriously. But this mood is their undoing.