Andrea West

Why in yoga do we feel light, less of body shape, no recognition of us in a labelled existence; our roles. We experience an openness and a freeing place which takes us into That which is not a pretended reality. Knowledge of mind, thoughts, body and resistance are useful to then realise we are not those aspects. It is a false programming. Our Reality is in a moving process of life within the body. In Hatha yoga we work with this life; prana and it wants to be everywhere. Where there are...

Gomukhasana - Cow pose, such a great posture to experiencing the inner sufferings we are holding onto! (this is one to do every day.) Using subtle instructions in yoga helps in taking away from being attached to the inner suffering we experience and helps to point the way towards your inner Self; free from suffering. As well as the yoga postures, pranayama; the means of moving the inner life force, a full focus and detachment are also needed, bringing us into an inner expansion where there is...

The inner opening experienced when in yoga is a means of clearing the suffering that is within. The suffering we carry are thoughts with attachments to them and they are deposited in the pranic subtle body. There are some thoughts that don’t create suffering and don’t meet the ego self. They just come and go and are harmless. The suffering ones are those that are reduced and released in yoga and we feel open, expansive, alive more cheerful. It is from the outer senses, the mind filters what...