Andrea West

Something within us never changes, we cannot think it or use the senses to identify it. We have to use the ancient teachings of yoga to teach it. But why try to find it? Through our senses, memory and thoughts we know what our body and life looks and feels like and we most probably have an opinion of it or disregard it through not wanting to “see it.” Those illusions have been created by part of mind that has attached or created an aversion to those feelings/ experience. The ahamkar- ego...

Prana Moving from the Centre Outward Moving prana from the centre outward allows us to enter the places where we are blocked. When we are in resistance, we do not recognise these areas as blocked — they feel absent, unreachable, or simply not there. But when awareness touches them, they begin to come alive. And as they awaken, the mental aspect that was held there also begins to move. It is like shining a torch into dark, dormant spaces within us — places we may feel do not exist, or perhaps...

Can you imagine how this student must feel being given all those instructions! ….and now he has to stay sharp and focused aswell on this and that part of his body… and at the same time trying to do some pranayama to release the holding on or resistances he feels. It won’t work! When in asanas it’s best to NOT work with the body and thoughts Once the alignment is safe, which is a MUST. …Working with the more subtle layer underlying the physical body shifts the “restriction places and...