we did hip-openers last saturday for hatha 1 class and i have to say that my yoga experience this time was something quite extra ordinary. we focused on the 2nd chakra which is just around the abdomen area...this is where we repress our emotions and keeps the flow of energy in our body. so, focusing on this chakra and doing hip openers supposedly released repressed emotions. i was unmindful of that though during class. all i wanted was time to meditate and focus on my asanas. at the end of the class, the part where we do the final savasana and try to empty our mind, i found myself in a different state of consciousness. i do not have the words to describe it...it just felt really, really different. and it finally made sense why my yoga teachers would often say:"come back to yourself..." at the end of class or say "wiggle your toes", etc. it finally made sense. because it actually really felt like that. it was as if, you literally had to suck yourself back in to your own body. it felt weird but wildly exhilirating!
and yet, 2 days after that yoga class, i find myself in a rather pensive mood. like i was just about ready to burst into tears...and i was missing and reminiscing about my life in bangkok. i am not sure if that has a lot to do with all the "repressed" emotions that my yoga teacher was talking about... but that yoga class definitely left me hovering between intense sadness and bliss. not bad for releasing repressed emotions...
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