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fandomhigh2022-06-09 03:43 am
died8yearsago) wrote in fandomhigh2022-06-09 03:43 am
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Yoga; Thursday, Third Period [06/09].
It looked to be another day of moderate rain, but it seemed to have gone over well enough last week that Rosa figured they'd keep on it and meet at the beach again today.
"So far," Rosa started, "we've been focusing a lot on different poses and asanas, but today's going to be less about movements and more about the mind. Pratyahara is one of the eight limbs of yoga, which we touched on when we talked about Pranayama, or breath control, but with Pratyahara, we make the conscious effort to draw our awareness away from the external world and outside stimuli. Aware of our senses but detached from them, we turn our attention inward.
"This is probably the one most people have the most trouble with." Not Rosa. At all, it was honestly her favorite part of yoga, but, then again, she definitely didn't consider herself most people. "But we're going to go over a few asanas that should help encourage better Pranayama. They're going to seem simple, maybe even pointless, but the point today isn't what you're doing out here," her hands swept around her shoulders a little to indicate the physical self, "but what's going on in here." Finger pointed to her head.
Which she was sure that, for some of them, was a pretty disturbing place. Or a completely empty one.
"So far," Rosa started, "we've been focusing a lot on different poses and asanas, but today's going to be less about movements and more about the mind. Pratyahara is one of the eight limbs of yoga, which we touched on when we talked about Pranayama, or breath control, but with Pratyahara, we make the conscious effort to draw our awareness away from the external world and outside stimuli. Aware of our senses but detached from them, we turn our attention inward.
"This is probably the one most people have the most trouble with." Not Rosa. At all, it was honestly her favorite part of yoga, but, then again, she definitely didn't consider herself most people. "But we're going to go over a few asanas that should help encourage better Pranayama. They're going to seem simple, maybe even pointless, but the point today isn't what you're doing out here," her hands swept around her shoulders a little to indicate the physical self, "but what's going on in here." Finger pointed to her head.
Which she was sure that, for some of them, was a pretty disturbing place. Or a completely empty one.