Shelley and David emphasized something today I wanted to remember. The whole Ashtanga system has been developed so that each thing you do, each pose, helps your body prepare for the next pose. It's not one individual pose. It is pose by pose, layer by layer, we build from our foundation the structure of our practice. A structure that forms no ceiling if we allow ourselves to be open to the possibility that we can always gain new knowledge or insight, and experience new growth.
Ashtanga is a specialized sequencing of postures and focused breathing techniques. It becomes moving meditation to those that practice regularly. Primary Series is "Yoga Chikitsa" or yoga therapy. It's intention is a healing process to cleanse and tone the body, mind and senses with many forwrad-bending postures. The Intermediate Series is "Nadi Shodana" or nerve cleansing. It introduces the back-bending postures and twisting postures that encourage our spines to stay flexible, supple and healthy.
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