Freedom & Flexibility
We invite a Practice of freeing our minds & bodies when we walk on the path of Yoga. We stretch our consciousness beyond the boundaries of conditioning therefore learning how to open & grow from a deeper wisdom. We stretch our bodies so as to increase blood flow & muscular elasticity, ergo staving off stiffness & injury. A focus on questioning our belief systems & behavioural patterns is as necessary as mobilising our bodies, without such quests we remain mentally imprisoned by old habits & physically hardened & brittle, thusly unable to cope, adapt & evolve. Yoga encourages us to limber up and remain agile psychologically as much as physiologically!
‘Moksha’ is a term used in Yogic Philosophy to describe the ultimate Freedom, a state of ‘being’ where we are completely liberated from the cycles of birth & death and released from the Karmic wheel of cause & effect. What a beautiful concept this is, it feels so far away though, almost fantastic (like a fantasy) but yet we all have this capacity within us. There is a part of us, deep inside which is already a liberated Yogi and we study our Practice not to achieve enlightenment from an outside source but rather to uncover our potential as it sits blissfully within us all along.
I liken this process to spring cleaning instead of importing more stuff: We might have an impulse to buy something because we feel there is a certain sensation of lacking but as we clean ‘that room’ which we have ignored for years we suddenly rediscover beauty that had been forgotten, like a useful tool or a gorgeous piece of pottery or simply the crystal clarity of an uncluttered space!
Commitment is required for an effective Yoga Practice but that discipline is the road to extricating ourselves from a situation in which we once felt trapped, our bodies become lithe & supple, we realise that we have far more sovereignty over our own minds than we had thought previously, we observe or capacity for sweet healing, we glimpse infinite possibilities and we shed our baggage so our voyage to freedom is light & boundless.
