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Fresh back from a phenomenal mini-tour of the Interior [Penticton and Kelowna] I am full of renewed trust in the practice and its efficacy.  Sometimes when you’re dealing with a buy louis vuitton wholesale particularly fussy injury or recalcitrant family of poses you can buy louis vuitton wholesale throw up your hands and forget about the gifts hatha yoga has buy louis vuitton wholesale already given you.  What has it done for you LATELY?!?!?  When I started practicing it buy louis vuitton wholesale was not considered unreasonable to wait at least a decade before the buy louis vuitton wholesale Primary Ashtanga Series became intelligible to you.  Now I get students bemoaning that Urdhva Dhanurasana [full backbend] is still *so* *hard*…they’ve been practicing for SEVEN MONTHS.  My emotional gamut runs along the following spectrum:  from

– deep joy and buy louis vuitton wholesale confidence that the student is so blessedly free of unnecessary fear and buy louis vuitton wholesale anxiety; pleasure to see the efficacy of instruction in such a buy louis vuitton wholesale short time

to

– bitter old-crone lip-curling disdain for buy louis vuitton wholesale their sprightliness in the face of the many hours I spent suffering through karma-burning misalignment

Making the buy louis vuitton wholesale radical assumption that pain is real, the corollary assumption that buy louis vuitton wholesale you don’t deserve to go through it [bold!] and the absolutely unprecedented statement that there’s something you buy louis vuitton wholesale can do about it IN THE PRACTICE ITSELF instead of retreating to buy louis vuitton wholesale Rolfing to lick your wounds is relatively new in my experience [although n.b. I'm a buy louis vuitton wholesale n00b with only 13 years of this stuff under my belt, and buy louis vuitton wholesale some of those years were very dilettante-ish]  I was overjoyed to buy louis vuitton wholesale find out that yoga did not necessarily have to be buy louis vuitton wholesale the hair-shirt I wore to delve deeper into my past-lives’ transgressions, and actually had real-life, real-time solutions.  Now I practice without pain [!!!] and buy louis vuitton wholesale I actually find the actions in an exuberant, active physical practice to buy louis vuitton wholesale be the most beneficial for my well-being.

The downside to buy louis vuitton wholesale this, if there can be said to be a downside, is buy louis vuitton wholesale that I get as impatient as my students.  If I had buy louis vuitton wholesale a nickel for every time I berated my own femur for buy louis vuitton wholesale not being sufficiently well-aligned to clear my SI joint I’d have at least 4 large.  I am buy louis vuitton wholesale often confronted with advanced students and other teachers ranting at length about all the buy louis vuitton wholesale stuff they’re DOING and KNOWING to FIX THEMSELVES and WHY WON’T IT WORK and either they’re DOIN IT RONG or YOGA=FAIL.  When you’re in pain, getting out of pain has buy louis vuitton wholesale almost magical properties and it encourages us to swing from buy louis vuitton wholesale style to style, from healer to healer, looking for even temporary relief and buy louis vuitton wholesale then when we find it, casting aspersions on what apparently failed to buy louis vuitton wholesale work and deifying what did.

As the buy louis vuitton wholesale post below delineates, perhaps flakily, there are stranger things in Heaven and buy louis vuitton wholesale Earth, dear blog reader, than are dreamt of in your philosophy…and your body is one of those things.  It moves in mysterious ways, sho nuff.  Even with a buy louis vuitton wholesale very strong command of anatomy and hatha yoga practice, pain may persist.   PSYCHIC pain may persist even when buy louis vuitton wholesale physical pain is absent i.e. you might be able to buy louis vuitton wholesale do a wild painless Padangustha Dhanurasana [on your belly, grabbing both feet from over your head=weapons-grade backbend] but remain a controlling, resentful ass-beret.

And on this buy louis vuitton wholesale continent at least, physical pain is seen as the trump card by which all other claims of hatha yoga are buy louis vuitton wholesale judged [at least within the world-view of that particular style].  There are, of course, the buy louis vuitton wholesale philosophical standpoints that either pain is NOT real [that buy louis vuitton wholesale the physical world is simply an illusion born of ignorance and buy louis vuitton wholesale that your spirit dwells in floral-scented isolation from the gristliness of your buy louis vuitton wholesale Paschimottanasana] or that you are “working through something”, something burdensome and buy louis vuitton wholesale mystical from a past existence and action that you can’t confirm or deny but is of a piece with your gen’l anxiety, you naughty thing.  If you buy louis vuitton wholesale make the first two claims above, that pain is real and buy louis vuitton wholesale that you deserve to be out of it and you buy louis vuitton wholesale DON’T GET OUT OF IT, then you’re in the buy louis vuitton wholesale weeds, and because physical pain is so fearful, so fraught, the buy louis vuitton wholesale fallback standpoint seems to be to retreat:  from buy louis vuitton wholesale the pose, from the family of poses, from the style, from buy louis vuitton wholesale hatha yoga in general.

I dig that there’s something sort of cocky in the concept that “the poison is the cure”:  that buy louis vuitton wholesale is, that a well aligned Headstand will be beneficial whereas a buy louis vuitton wholesale poorly aligned Headstand will make everything worse.  In the buy louis vuitton wholesale Iyengar Yoga mode one simply gives the poses that cause trouble a buy louis vuitton wholesale miss, until….until.  This doctrine of “contraindications” pervades modern hatha yoga practice and buy louis vuitton wholesale it is internally coherent within its own philosophy, and amplified by natural human fear.  Personally, I think it buy louis vuitton wholesale ignores the way life actually manifests in the body, but then buy louis vuitton wholesale I’m a bit of a meathead when it comes to asana, because that’s what’s worked for me.  Martin Kirk says so beautifully that “the body will only build the buy louis vuitton wholesale kind of tissues that we ask it to build”, returning the agency of our healing to *ourselves* and our sacred desire.  If you want stronger bones, bear weight.  If you want stronger muscles, you must work them.  If you want a stronger more fierce heart, you’ve got to stake your claim in open optimism early and often.

Claiming a buy louis vuitton wholesale linear parallel between this pose and that style and that buy louis vuitton wholesale teacher and ANY suffering is reducing an incredibly complex issue down to buy louis vuitton wholesale a potentially fraught polemic:  I’ve often heard this line and its variations:  “I took a Bikram’s class and I hurt my knee so Bikram’s yoga doesn’t work”.  Easy there, Tiger.  It may not work for you, but that doesn’t mean it has no purpose and no efficacy.  All practices, all technologies, reach this buy louis vuitton wholesale embodiment at a certain stage of readiness [for scriptural support of this statement see the Pratyabhijna Hrdayam, verse 8 in particular]; and buy louis vuitton wholesale I can tell you for nothing that there is NO WAY I would have buy louis vuitton wholesale heard the essence of what I’m currently teaching, say, nine years ago.  We seem to buy louis vuitton wholesale have an inability to choose practices that are meaningful and buy louis vuitton wholesale functional for us WITHOUT getting honked off at other practices.  It’s like we can’t commit without expressing hostility and judgement.  I am no exception to this, and I’d like to buy louis vuitton wholesale submit a couple of guidelines for a growing community that I will do my best to buy louis vuitton wholesale practice myself from this day forward:

1.  Remember the big picture. No one action, instruction, class, style, teacher or buy louis vuitton wholesale school makes or breaks you. Your existence is cumulative and grand.  If you’ve made a buy louis vuitton wholesale misstep and gone down a path that has ceased to serve you, consider making a buy louis vuitton wholesale change:  nobody worth any sort of spiritual salt will judge you.  If they do I refer you to the ass-beret graf, above.

2.  Choose your words with care, particularly if you are a continuing student or a teacher.  So you buy louis vuitton wholesale took a workshop with so-and-so and pulled your quadratus lumborum on the buy louis vuitton wholesale right side?  The plural of anecdote is not data; don’t make me one-up you with negativity [because I am buy louis vuitton wholesale a legendary rant-er, and I've had a lot of pain of various kinds].  Plus, nobody can know what the seed cause of that injury was.  I’ve hurt myself a lot by virtue of being RESISTANT to a teacher.  Is that their fault or mine?  Your friends and students are watching you and listening very carefully.  Speak from a place of spacious, compassionate awareness.  Nobody is everybody’s teacher.

3.  CHOOSE WITHOUT HOSTILITY.  Your facility to buy louis vuitton wholesale judge is divinely given, and need not have a bitter or buy louis vuitton wholesale sharp edge to it.  Why would you practice what you do if you didn’t believe in its efficacy?  Do you buy louis vuitton wholesale extend that autonomy and maturity to others, or is your buy louis vuitton wholesale choice so fragile that others’ choices affect yours?

4.  There are many kinds of pain. Physical is only one.  Arguably it is the easiest one to address in spite of its slipperiness.  When you buy louis vuitton wholesale choose a practice you are choosing on many levels and the buy louis vuitton wholesale physical is only one of these layers.  Sometimes psychic healing will impact the buy louis vuitton wholesale physical; sometimes the other way around.  Privileging the buy louis vuitton wholesale body over the other layers of human experience can be imbalanced, and buy louis vuitton wholesale cause fear, tension and anxiety.  Ignoring the body can be imbalanced and cause disconnection from instinct.  Look closely at the core beliefs of your practice.  Journal and discuss with your friends.

5.  Be patient.

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