Added Preliminaries – Part-1 – Resonate to "Stay Focused"

Today we will look into some added preliminaries for the Matsya Asana and Dhanur Asana that we have learned earlier…

**Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra: “Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind”**

The Matsya Asana alignment with the chest expansion and the next flow-back touch of the crown-earth actually creates a transformation. The dhrishti or gaze in fact creates one-pointedness, called Ekagra. It is because of controlled inflexion called Nirudhdha. The oscillating or swerving mind normally is known as Kshipta nature.

**Source unknown: Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be cured and endure what cannot be cured!!**

**B.K.S. Iyengar Light on Life: Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.**

**ARV: These are preliminaries to any Asana and should be indulged with passion to learn and experience along the curves.**

The fish pose establishes a stable posture. YES. A state denoted “Vikshipta” strong ‘stillness’, steadiness or mindfulness is the real transformation one can experience.

**Response to something like stress is what we get to CHOOSE. The quality of which comes from our mind and heart. Choose it wisely..!**

The consciousness level itself can be slowly altered via this pose. Real “Parinama” or ‘state-change’ is the wonder of this stroke. The vinyasa flow of visuddha chakra of the throat and the energy percolation of the Sahasra Chakra of the crown synergies the body-mind-spirit continuum.

Alongside when we come to the Dhanur Asana the rhythmic laya is added on to the yogini/yogi brain-brawn fixation. We can have the parsva or flank effect (balanced sliding/inflection) too.

**Utilize the opportunity to “know” and “realize” who YOU ARE..**

**B.K.S. Iyengar: Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is art.**

**YOGA is a work-in process to define oneself.**

**Once you attain freedom in this routine, that’s when a day wouldn’t pass by without quieting the mind…**

**Intensify the “wholeness” that yoga gifts you with!**

**BEST is to strive for PROGRESS. Perfection will certainly follow…**

**YOGA certainly happens beyond the mat. Let us know where and how you have “experienced” it ?!**

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A passionate young woman who has just realized her Iconic Independence, truly by leading a life, on her own – which she has only fantasized in her dreams all through these years, before stepping into a challenging role of this kind (you will get to know what this journey has been!). I have wanted to prove myself, not just in the cyber space, but the treasure-filled stage of life as well. Ask me to whom I wanted to prove? It was just to myself and not to anyone else. I for one slide into the shoes offered to me on a daily basis by the All-Pervasive! Whatever that might be! I also want to be an active player all through the blissful years that is showered and the ones that I am yet to be presented with! I am full of life and values and wish to re-create the meaning of this ‘journey undertaken’ – not just through the mere survival and existence, but by the richness of resilient thoughts to LIVE and THRIVE every moment that flashes by! View more posts