Those who practice yoga know this, the balance between inside and outside is always subtle, because we are made of many layers and infinite connections to what surrounds us. One cannot take care of the body and mortify the mind or vice versa. Yoga has been a great resource for me over these very long months; to be able to practice it online, like many other disciplines that have moved to digital platforms due to Covid-19, it allowed me to maintain awareness of the accumulated tensions, and gave me a way to lighten them, above all, it did not make me lose a community of people with whom to share an experience of attention and care.
One of the aspects on which there is always little attention when talking about physical practices, sports in particular, taken as we are by competitive spirit, it is the sharing aspect:bodies doing the same thing, they take a common rhythm. but yet, much of the benefit that comes from it also comes from there.
Sri Vasavi Yogashram Chennai
From Monday 24 May Aśvattha reopens the doors of its center to members.
The practice on line in recent months it has proved to be a precious resource, with all its limitations but also with many possibilities, and not just to stay “connected”…
It led each and every one of us to compete with a new way of practicing, create new ways of teaching, it has opened up new possibilities for exchange and experimentation. It was very tiring to deal with absence, with the solitude of conducting a monologue, with the impossibility of passing everything, absolutely everything, but it was a great way to break free from some routine patterns, like the need to always see and hear everything at the same time.
The mode on line it has certainly changed the approach of the senses: the impossibility of three-dimensionality and of all the proprioceptive information that comes to us when we are immersed in an environment determines, usually, the predominance of a sense, which is often the view; but this encountered an objective impossibility of predominating given the limits of medium, at least in our unprofessional broadcasting system. So rely on the word, word heard without being confirmed by the visa, it was itself a practice. Word needed, capable of leading but not burdening, able to be exhaustive, to arrive clear.
And then the experience of creating a domestic space to be elected a śāla – practice room, partly connoting the space in a more way “welcoming” ma, especially, connoting ourselves to that attitude of welcoming. Making space around is making space inside, find a little one Holy of Holies within us and authorize us to enter.
In this way we have nourished the flame of that doing together which is practice yoga: certainly an individual practice, that does not end with the moment “on the mat” how often you want to remember. Something deeper and more pervasive, rooting like the most vigorous weeds, capable of creeping into every fold and every crack, even more so if we were practicing it at home.
From Monday 24 we will go back to practice together in the presence, giving a little’ of oxygen to the flame, bringing what we have experienced and discovered in recent months in the space of sharing, that “do together” that marks the rhythm of what is put in common, are the bodies, are the souls, vibrating in tune.
We can not wait!
Manu & Albiji
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