In this beautiful pose, Parshva Sarvangasana (side shoulder stand), the shoulders and arms remain rooted to the earth, while the legs extend to the horizon, reaching to touch in all seasons. This suggests the true purpose of yoga: to be well founded, while extending into the vastness of the unexplored self. In order to do yoga is to become fully embedded in the present, while the extensive possibilities of the future - a condition in which the two of us andWill.
Many practitioners think of yoga asana (physical poses, or exercises) as the totality of the art. But what in the end defeats the very purpose of yoga. To reach them, and not through asana practice is like a top-of-the-line car that we run on a treadmill in the garage. Although the car works perfectly, we are not everywhere. Such a car was designed to run on the road that our strength in our future, our transport --unexplored potential. In the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali describes an ashtanga (eight limbs) way, the asanas, but the third part. Our work in yoga begins with yama (ethics in relation to other), five guidelines to help us create and live in a healthy and peaceful society.
Then comes niyama (prescribed rites), personal disciplines that help us to become aware of us. After a traditional categorization of yoga's eight limbs, asana belongsyama and niyama bahiranga as part of the sadhana (external practices). Pranayama (breathing exercises) are Pratyahara (sense) withdrawal and Dharana (concentration) as Antaranga Sadhana (internal procedures known), while dyyana (meditation), and all are looking at the various levels of samadhi (unit) antaratma sadhana (inner practices) The work, which includes a connection to the spirit within. The great Indian sage Sri Aurobindo once wrote: "When we passed through knowings, then we willtake note. Reason was the helper, but the reason is the bar. "A similar shift in the status of vehicle roadblock with the limbs of yoga experience. As we continue to move towards the yamas, niyama, asanas and important, but if We concentrate on them and make them the end of our efforts, they become a burden.
We are wrong in our efforts if we are to what is intended to help only help us to stay to the next level. The primary purpose of the asanas is to the makeBody strong, stable, and able to withstand the energy of prana to the life force in the practice of Pranayama grown. Pranayama, which in turn serves to strengthen the nervous system, so that they can handle the power of the following elements of yoga, the withdrawal of the senses and the ever-deepening stages of meditation on the higher purpose of yoga, to communicate with the self. If we practice with this understanding of the asanas act as a bridge to infinitythe vastness of the world into it. The yamas, Niyamas and the asanas are the ground on which we root, while the remaining parts of the eightfold path of the limbs, which seeks to rise endlessly in all directions, our true selves.
Reaching Into Infinity
The asanas, not an attitude represents a better and teaches them simultaneously roots extending into the present, while in the infinity that Parshva Sarvangasana, one of the most beautiful is in yoga. Since the legsachieve strong to receive the arms and shoulders bottom and the chest is a powerful opening. The whole body balance in the focal point of the sacrum and an amazing performance, as you renew your center created in both directions. This double extension creates heat and energy in the body and forcing prana into the cells of the pelvis and abdomen. In very few will have the legs fully supported, as they can reach to the horizon, in most asanas, they are either rooted or vice versa. In ParshvaSarvangasana, we gain an awareness of the legs, that we can get are not from any other. It would also require a strong boost of energy from the basin to the heart center. Parshva Sarvangasana creates a connection between the hands - the strongest emanatory physical energy in the body - and the sacrum - the most sacred bones that are the center of balance. Her weight, which results from the cross on the hand of a very powerful grounding, charging the sacrum with theHand energy, which then rise up through the body.
© 2008 Aadil Palkhivala