 What brought you to your yoga practice?
Physical therapists, my chiropractor and doctor all recommended yoga as part of treatment plan to address osteoarthritis/past injury in my hip. After exploring several studios I was discouraged with class offerings and approach to yoga. It all felt very rushed and I wasn’t offered much instruction, or general benefits of yoga. My doctor suggested I look for something called “gentle yoga”, which led me to Five Keys. I was pleasantly surprised that Five Keys was right in my neighborhood. Everyone was welcoming, answered all my questions and have led/guided me to what I consider will be my life long yoga practice. They showed me that I can do yoga! What benefits did you notice once you started practicing consistently? More flexibility, improved range of motion, and a sense of stillness and peace for myself. What would you now tell yourself before you started practicing yoga? Keep trying, there is a place/people to show you the way to yoga. You will see a difference in your flexibility, mobility and general health. You’ll feel good!
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 Photo by Valeriia Bugaiova on Unsplash Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure... Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki Want to start at the beginning? Yoga Sutra 2.49 तस्मिन्सति श्वासप्रश्वासयोर्गतिविच्छेदः प्राणायामः tasminsati śvāsapraśvāsayorgativicchedaḥ prāṇāyāmaḥ Having mastered a steady, comfortable position, inhalations and exhalations should be regulated. This is pranayama. Patanjali spends a little more time on pranayama in the Yoga Sutras than asana but compared to his discussion of "The Witness" and the constituents of nature (the gunas), pranayama is explained quite simply over five Sutras, which we will cover this month and next. This month, we’ll discuss what pranayama is and how to practice it. Next month, we’ll discuss the benefits of pranayama.
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